Search results for "Asian American" - New World Encyclopedia
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- important figure to scholars of Asian, Asian-American, and American culture ... In 1964, to provide support for Asian-American children who were not ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- considered one of the world's great Asian scholars. During the first ... Way and its Power (Tao Te Ching) introduced Asian philosophical concepts to ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Plegadis (glossy ibises), Pseudibis (South Asian ibises), Thaumatibis (giant ... is an open question. The South American Checklist Committee's ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:58, 10 February 2024
- of modern elephants and in particular the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus ... and subtribe (Elephantina), as the modern Asian elephants (genus Elephas ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- are comprised of peoples from various South Asian, Middle Eastern, North American ... a minority. Most expatriates are from South Asian countries, mainly India, ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- AACR2 stands for the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition ... Arabic, Greek, and East Asian scripts. MARC 21 in unicode (UTF-8) ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- 000 years ago, when the only known North American species, the American mastodon ... be larger than those of mammoths, and the American mastodons (Mammut americanum ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- Ancient Khmer Empire. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: ... Laos), in European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists." Roberto ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- memorandum meant to smooth over Japanese-American relations. ... years previous, Japan became the leading Asian power by defeating China ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- ivory made form seeds of a South American palm tree (MFMHS). ... detectable differences between African and Asian ivory, with African ivory ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 03:52, 13 March 2024
- in Africa that many consider the mainly Asian populations H. erectus and ... and the African population, rather than the Asian population, is considered ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- known collectively as coral snakes, the American coral snake genera Micrurus ... name with species belonging to Micrurus (American coral snakes or American ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- known as Saigon.Franklin Ng, The Asian American Encyclopedia (New York: ... * Ng, Franklin. 1995. The Asian American Encyclopedia. New York: Marshall ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass into the Yellow ... measures slightly larger than the American state of Indiana. The country ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- although the General Sherman hoisted an American flag, and the incident became ... In 1853 the USS South America, an American gunboat, visited Busan on ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- List of Asian countries {|class="wikitable" |+ ... Georgia, and Turkey are classified as Asian countries by the United Nations ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- The following year, Japan opened three of its ports to American and ... Fukuzawa had himself photographed with an American girl (one of the most famous ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- used as a spice in curries and other South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine ... , pasupu (Telugu), or manjal (Tamil) in Asian countries. In Assamese, it ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- one of the early leaders of the Korean-American immigrant community in the ... The American Courage Award from the Asian American Justice Center in Washington ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as ... who was the great-great granddaughter of American founding father Roger Sherman ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- was white, a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation ... the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro. The ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- early African H. ergaster and the mainly Asian populations H. erectus (Smithsonian ... evidence; these are curated at the American Museum of Natural History ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- Nestorian influence, the era of the Central Asian khanates, and the Soviet period. time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with Soviet-period ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- marrying a Jew) or racial (such as an Asian person marrying a person ... was white, a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- |African or Venomous Garter snakes (unrelated to North American non ... monophyly of two groups: The African, Asian, and New World Elapinae, ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- 90 to 95 percent of indigenous North American peoples, and corn found ... ** The "Asian Flu," 1957–1958. An H2N2 caused about 70 ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- a zoological park, but delayed due to the American Civil War. The Philadelphia ... in conservation programmes and the American Zoo Association soon asserted ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... climate and miles of clear sandy beaches. American Samoan people are typically ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- People's Day (also known as Native American Day) is now celebrated instead ... at that time. It was to celebrate all of American History, not just since ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- == East Asian calligraphy == [[Image:Mifu01.jpg|frame|250px|right|Chinese ... Asia and as the most refined form of East Asian painting. ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- United States. The Journal also publishes Asian and European editions. Its ... front page advertising on the European and Asian editions in late 2005. ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 17:37, 30 April 2023
- similar in some respects to that of the American banjo, in that the drum ... itself deriving originally from Central Asian instruments. Around 1562 ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- kidnapped young women throughout Japan’s Asian colonies and occupied territories ... s/toc/jaas6.1.html Journal of Asian American Studies 6:1, Feb 2003 ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met ... from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- where she worked as a translator for the American News Agency for three years ... *Trudeau, Lawrence J. Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- 1899, after its defeat during the Spanish-American War, Spain sold the islands ... Peleliu was the scene of a hard-fought battle between American and ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- Edward Said, American Palestinian scholar, is best known for describing ... of Arab elites who internalized the American and British orientalists ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- response by the Federal Reserve was the Asian financial crisis of 1997 ... & Monetarism: A Further Analysis The American Economic Review, 67/4. ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- On March 14, 1995, astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American ... Alan Shepard became the first American in space in May 1961, while ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- James Darmesteter, (translator) (From Sacred Books of the East, American ... ===Central Asian Role=== [[Image:ChineseShapedSogdianCoinKelpin8thCenturyCE ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- ; मसाला) is a term used in South Asian cuisines (including Indian ... quot;) are a common sight in many South Asian neighborhoods. In India, ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- grasslands. Prairies are found in the American Midwest, eastern Argentina ... Almost all the cultivated rice is Asian rice, Oryza sativa. There ...14 KB (2,146 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- "Song of the Elk" of the Native American Sioux people says (Bauer1995): ... species and divides them into the East Asian/North American Red Deer ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 23:53, 23 August 2020
- 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American cultural anthropologist ... 1960s several other works that dealt with Asian and African cultures. His ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- The late American rock singer Jeff Buckley paid tribute to Nusrat ... TIME magazine's issue of November 6, 2006, "60 Years of ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 01:20, 17 November 2022
- diffuse political power in early Southeast Asian history. The concept of a ... wheels are still used today in the Native American spirituality, however most ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- the most important foods in European and American culture, and is the defining ... different than those from America. Some American flours and British equivalents ...20 KB (3,186 words) - 08:08, 21 May 2021
- Several such exercises of mercy have been recorded in some Asian kingdoms ... parts of the world, by both Western and Asian empires. The earliest records ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- * Marlay, Ross, and Clark D. Neher. 1999. Patriots and tyrants: ten ... * Marr, David G. 1984. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945. American ...14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022