American National Biography: Supplement 2.CT213 98-20826 0-19-522202-4 American national biography The American National Biography is a 24 volume set containing approximately 17,400 entries[1] and 20 million words.[2] It was published in 1999 (a Supplement 1 has appeared in 2002) as, according to its preface in Volume 1, the successor to the Dictionary of ; supplement 2. Title main entry. Ed. by Mark C. Carnes. (American national biography) Oxford U. Press, [c]2005 835 p. $150.00 Originally published in 1999, the 24-volume American National Biography provides broad coverage of notable figures in American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of history from the earliest recorded contact of Europeans in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to the near present. This second supplement to the ANE contains figures from the past who were omitted from the initial set as well as recently deceased deceased 1) adj. dead. 2) n. the person who has died, as used in the handling of his/her estate, probate of will and other proceedings after death, or in reference to the victim of a homicide (as: "The deceased had been shot three times. persons. The entries are followed by an updated cumulative occupational index which groups specific occupational categories (i.e., state legislators or nurses) under general headings such as "Government and Politics" and "Health and Medicine." |
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