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- South American Indian people of Venezuela and eastern Colombia. They speak a language of the Maipurean Arawakan group. Traditionally, the Achagua had typical tropical-forest economies, living in large villages and ...
- Ache
- nomadic South American Indian people living in eastern Paraguay. The Ache speak a Tupian dialect of the Tupi-Guaranian language family. They live in the densely forested, hilly region between the ...
- Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu
- Ghanaian army officer, who, after leading a military revolt that overthrew the government of Kofi Busia, became Ghana's chief of state in 1972. In July 1978 he was forced to ...
- Achebe, Chinua
- prominent Igbo (Ibo) novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African society. His particular concern ...
- Achelous River
- one of the longest rivers in Greece, rising in the Pindus Mountains of central Epirus (Ipiros) and dividing Aetolia from Acarnania. It debouches into the Ionian Sea after a course ...
- Achenbach, Andreas
- landscape painter, a pioneer of the German realist school. He studied at the Dusseldorf academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, but emancipated himself from the contemporary school of landscapists that delighted ...
- achene
- dry, one-seeded fruit lacking special seams that split to release the seed. The seed coat is attached to the thin, dry ovary wall (husk) by a short stalk, so that ...
- Achernar
- brightest star in the southern constellation Eridanus and one of the 10 brightest stars in the sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.47. It lies about 60 or 70 ...
- Acheron
- river in Thesprotia in Epirus, Greece, that was thought in ancient times to go to Hades because it flowed through dark gorges and went underground in several places; an oracle ...
- Acheson, Dean
- U.S. secretary of state (1949-53) and adviser to four presidents, who became the principal creator of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War period following World War II; he helped ...
- Acheson, Edward Goodrich
- American inventor who discovered the abrasive Carborundum and perfected a method for making graphite.
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