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(Encyclopedia) Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, at Tallahassee; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1887; predominantly African American. It has divisions of arts and s...
(Encyclopedia) Deloria, Vine, Jr.,
1933–2005, American author, theologian, historian, and activist, b.
Marin, S.Dak. Considered by some to be the leading intellectua...
(Encyclopedia) American University in Cairo, at Cairo, Egypt; English language; founded 1919. It has faculties of anthropology, computer science, economics and political science, engineering, English and comparative...
(Encyclopedia) Poston, Charles Debrill pōsˈtən [key], 1825–1902, American explorer and author, b. Hardin co., Ky. After practicing law in Tennessee, he moved to California in 1850 and from there led a party to ...
(Encyclopedia) Maricopa märĭkōˈpə, mâr– [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Yuman branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). At some time in the past...
(Encyclopedia) Oratory, Congregation of the [Lat. abbr., Cong. Orat.], in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1575, an association of secular priests organized into independent communities according to the rule wr...
(Encyclopedia) Phoenix, city (1990 pop. 983,403), state capital and seat of Maricopa co., S Ariz., on the Salt River; inc. 1881. It is the largest city in Arizona, the hub of the rich agricultural region of the Salt...
(Encyclopedia) Kingsolver, Barbara, 1955–, American writer, b. Annapolis, Md., B.S. DePauw Univ., 1977, M.S. Univ. of Arizona, 1981. She studied biology and ecology and was a science writer before completing The B...
(Encyclopedia) Flagstaff, city (2020 pop. 76,831),
seat of Coconino co., N Ariz., near the San Francisco Peaks; inc. 1894.
Lumbering, ranching, and a lively tourist tr...
(Encyclopedia) Golden Valley.
<1> City (2020 pop. 8,801), Mohave co., NW Arizona. The town
was named for the development company that originally subdivided the l...