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81anthropology — anthropological /an threuh peuh loj i keuhl/, anthropologic, adj. anthropologically, adv. /an threuh pol euh jee/, n. 1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs… …
82culture area — Anthropol. a region having a distinct pattern of culture. * * * ▪ anthropological concept Introduction also called cultural area, culture province , or ethno geographic area in anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, a… …
83Mongolia — /mong goh lee euh, mon /, n. 1. a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People s Republic. 2. Also, Nei Monggol. See Inner Mongolia. 3. Outer, former name of Mongolian People s Republic. * * * Mongolia Introduction… …
84race — race1 /rays/, n., v., raced, racing. n. 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. 2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course: They spent a day at the races. 3. any… …
85Race — /rays/, n. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland. * * * I Term once commonly used in physical anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a… …
86Hughes, Ted — orig. Edward James Hughes born Aug. 16, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, Eng. died Oct. 28, 1998, Devon British poet. The son of shopkeepers, he studied at Cambridge University. He married the American poet Sylvia Plath in 1956. His first volumes of …
87Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi — ▪ 2008 born Sept. 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria In 2007 Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The young novelist, who stated that she had been writing… …
88cultural evolution — ▪ social science Introduction the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. The subject may be viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that describes the evolution of human behaviour as a whole, or it may be viewed as …
89Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
90Philippine Islands — • An island nation in the Pacific Ocean Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Philippine Islands Philippine Islands † …
