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31Gifting remittances — describes a range of scholarly approaches relating remittances to anthropological literature on gift giving. The terms draws on Lisa Cliggett’s “gift remitting,” [Cliggett 2003] but is used to describe a wider body of work . Broadly speaking,… …
32Steffens, Lincoln — ▪ American journalist born April 6, 1866, San Francisco died Aug. 9, 1936, Carmel, Calif., U.S. U.S. journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, a leading figure among the writers whom Theodore Roosevelt called muckrakers (muckraker).… …
33literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
34United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
35painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present. Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …
36mathematics — /math euh mat iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically. 2. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) mathematical procedures,… …
37Rudolf Kassner — (1873–1959) was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. His Early YearsRudolf Kassner was born on 11 September 1873 in Gross Pavlowitz in southern Moravia. His maternal ancestors were peasants from Silesia. On the… …
38Andre Derain — André Derain (* 10. Juni 1880 in Chatou bei Paris; † 8. September 1954 in Garches bei Paris) war ein französischer Künstler. Er schuf unter anderem Gemälde, Grafiken, Skulpturen, Bühnenbilder und –kostüme, überdauert hat jedoch vor allem seine… …
39Derain — André Derain (* 10. Juni 1880 in Chatou bei Paris; † 8. September 1954 in Garches bei Paris) war ein französischer Künstler. Er schuf unter anderem Gemälde, Grafiken, Skulpturen, Bühnenbilder und –kostüme, überdauert hat jedoch vor allem seine… …
40RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… …
