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(h ´ rdäl´´, h ´–) (KEY) , 1914–2002, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist, b. Larvik. He carried out research in the Marquesas Islands in 1...
(k sk s´k ) (KEY) , small village, Randolph co., SE Ill., on Kaskaskia island in the Mississippi River where it is joined by the Kaskaskia River. Th...
(k n t´ y ´hän v k´tôr räs´m s n) (KEY) , 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist. Born in Greenland of Eskimo ancestry on his moth...
(käsh wä´zäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 88,309), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Japan Sea. A resort town known for its hot sprin...
(mär´k s d n ´sä) (KEY) , c.1495–1558, missionary explorer in Spanish North America. A Franciscan friar, he served in Peru and Guatemala before...
(g ´ch t) (KEY) , 1832–1907, American ethnologist, b. Switzerland. He was trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, and after h...