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Two Algonquian peoples, the Abnaki and…
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U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People Government National Security Foreign Relations PEOPLEArawak and Carib tribes lived in the region before Columbus sighted the coast in…
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In 1965, Edward Heath became the first…
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In the second half of the 19th cent. Francesco De Sanctis, literary critic…