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Radislav Krstic, 2001 News

former Bosnian Serb general, was found guilty of genocide in August by the Hague's international war crimes tribunal and sentenced to 46 years in prison. Krstic was involved in the 1995…

Natchez, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia) NatchezNatcheznăchˈĭz [key], indigenous North American people who lived along St. Catherine's Creek east of the present-day city of Natchez in Mississippi. At the time of contact with…

Dover, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Dover. 1 City (2020 pop. 39,403), state capital, and seat of Kent co., central Del., on the St. Jones River; founded 1683 on orders of…

Gustavus I

(Encyclopedia) Gustavus IGustavus Igəstāˈvəs [key], 1496–1560, king of Sweden (1523–60), founder of the modern Swedish state and the Vasa dynasty. Known as Gustavus Eriksson before his coronation, he…

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich

(Encyclopedia) Yevtushenko, Yevgeny AleksandrovichYevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovichyĕvˌt&oomacr;shĕngˈkō, Rus. yĭvgāˈnyē əlyĭksänˈdrəvĭch yĭvtəshĕnˈkō [key], 1933–2017, Russian poet, b. Zima…

Céline, Louis Ferdinand

(Encyclopedia) Céline, Louis FerdinandCéline, Louis Ferdinandlwē fĕrdēnNˈ sālēnˈ [key], 1894–1961, French author, whose real name was Louis Ferdinand Destouches. Céline wrote grim, scatological, and…

Mark O. Barton, 1999 News

44, day trader, killed nine people in a July shooting rampage in Atlanta, before turning a gun on himself. Barton is suspected of murdering his wife and two children in Stockbridge, Ga.,…

Luis Echeverría, 2004 News

former president of Mexico, in July was charged with genocide in the 1971 massacre of 25 student protesters. The special prosecutor said Echeverría allowed a military-trained hit squad to…