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Sand Creek

(Encyclopedia)Sand Creek, Colorado, site of a massacre (1864) of Cheyenne by Col. John M. Chivington and his Colorado Volunteers. The Cheyennes, led by Black Kettle, had offered to make peace and, at the suggestion...

Stone, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Stone, Robert, 1937–2015, American novelist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. During his early years he was in the Navy, and later he joined Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in their drug-enhanced adventures. He...

Baraka, Amiri

(Encyclopedia)Baraka, Amiri amērē bəräˈkə [key], 1934–2014, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as Everett LeRoy Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. In college he a...

ebonics

(Encyclopedia)ebonics: see Black English.

Feldberg

(Encyclopedia)Feldberg: see Black Forest.

pepperidge

(Encyclopedia)pepperidge: see black gum.

lampblack

(Encyclopedia)lampblack: see carbon black.

Schwarzwald

(Encyclopedia)Schwarzwald: see Black Forest.

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