The World Almanac and Book of FactsPress Publishing Company (The New York World), 1959 |
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Page 204
... Indian word for " little spring place , " identified as in Arizona Creek . Arkansas - French variant of Kansas , a Sioux Indian name for south wind people . " California - Bestowed by the Spanish Conquista- dores , being the name of an ...
... Indian word for " little spring place , " identified as in Arizona Creek . Arkansas - French variant of Kansas , a Sioux Indian name for south wind people . " California - Bestowed by the Spanish Conquista- dores , being the name of an ...
Page 362
... India into two dominions and set June , 1948 , for British withdrawal from India . Aug. 15 , 1947 , was designated Indian Independence Day . India became a self - governing member of the British Commonwealth of Nations and assumed ...
... India into two dominions and set June , 1948 , for British withdrawal from India . Aug. 15 , 1947 , was designated Indian Independence Day . India became a self - governing member of the British Commonwealth of Nations and assumed ...
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... Indians , and the Indian attack on the fort June 30 , 1794 , after it had been erected by Gen. Anthony Wayne . The monument contains bones of slain soldiers . FALLEN TIMBERS MONUMENT on the Mau- mee river , sw . of Toledo , O ...
... Indians , and the Indian attack on the fort June 30 , 1794 , after it had been erected by Gen. Anthony Wayne . The monument contains bones of slain soldiers . FALLEN TIMBERS MONUMENT on the Mau- mee river , sw . of Toledo , O ...
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