The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 19Grolier, 1988 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 199
... later characterize the state - agriculture , flour milling , and lumbering . Actual settlement really got under way with the government's purchase from the Indians , in 1837 , of the triangle of land between the St. Croix and the ...
... later characterize the state - agriculture , flour milling , and lumbering . Actual settlement really got under way with the government's purchase from the Indians , in 1837 , of the triangle of land between the St. Croix and the ...
Page 310
... Later she explored humanistic social themes and choreographed for a former pupil , José Limón , who became a major choreographer himself . Weidman shared Humphrey's concern for social themes but also possessed an ingratiat- ing wit and ...
... Later she explored humanistic social themes and choreographed for a former pupil , José Limón , who became a major choreographer himself . Weidman shared Humphrey's concern for social themes but also possessed an ingratiat- ing wit and ...
Page 693
... later form of the traditional deity Osiris . Accord- ing to ancient belief , Osiris had been killed and dismembered and was reassembled by his faith- ful consort Isis , thus constituting a god of both death and fertility . The cult of ...
... later form of the traditional deity Osiris . Accord- ing to ancient belief , Osiris had been killed and dismembered and was reassembled by his faith- ful consort Isis , thus constituting a god of both death and fertility . The cult of ...
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