Search results for "University of Wisconsin" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • through coercion, intimidation, or threats of physical harm. It is distinguished ... lies not just in stricter external methods of security, stiffer punishments ...
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  • Burnett. High Sierra. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979. ISBN ... *Huston, John. Juarez. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press ...
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  • The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...
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  • age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the ... More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, "the ...
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  • produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...
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  • Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic ... Life of Isidore. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin, 1978. ...
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  • an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... enrolled in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned ...
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  • in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed ... The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues ...
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  • He entered the University of Wisconsin initially studying agriculture ... given. In 1957, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to teach. However ...
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  • The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... War and all its bloodshed (3.09 percent of the population) could have ...
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  • American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... and for making this stance the centerpiece of 1968 presidential campaign ...
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  • race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...
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  • migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... and Extinction. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 1930665962. ...
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  • Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...
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  • lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...
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  • Hemiptera is a major order of insects, collectively known as true ... edu/mbcn/kyf402.html Damsel bugs.] University of Wisconsin, Madison: Department ...
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  • of Women’s Writing.(Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 23. ... of Women’s Writing. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN ...
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  • 1475-1521 |year=1981 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location ... 1475-1521. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 1981. ISBN ...
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  • known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ... The professional career of Ritchie Valens lasted a period of eight ...
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  • the University of Chicago to the University of Wisconsin, he attended church ... in 1955, when he moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The biological ...
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