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(Encyclopedia) Janus jāˈnəs [key], in Roman religion, god of beginnings. He was one of the principal Roman gods, the custodian of the universe. The first hour of the day, the first day of the month, the first mon...

(Encyclopedia) Strachey, William, 1572–1621, English colonial historian; educated at Cambridge. In 1609 he sailed to Virginia with Sir Thomas Gates. A storm wrecked his ship in the Bermudas, and the party remained...

(Encyclopedia) Gülek Boğazi: see Cilician Gates. ...

(Encyclopedia) Alatna Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) John Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kobuk Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tinayguk Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) Wilmot Proviso, 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territ...

(Encyclopedia) North Fork of the Koyukuk Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909, passed by the U.S. Congress. It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897; the issue had been ignored by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Repub...