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Trajan
Roman emperor (98-117), the first born outside Italy. He had military commands in Asia and Europe before being named consul in 91. In 97 he was adopted by Nerva as his successor. After Nerva's death in 98, he deified the former emperor and named himself Jupiter's representative on earth. He strengthened defenses along the N frontier and weakened the Praetorian Guard at Rome. He gave the Senate new authority, reduced taxes, supported the poor with government welfare, reformed provincial administration, and built public works, incl. a forum with Trajan's Column, a structure commemorating his Dacian Wars. He added Dacia, Mesopotamia, and Parthia to the empire. He was campaigning in Asia when revolts broke out in conquered territories. Discouraged and ill, he returned to Rome to die.


Arapaho
Plains Indian people of Algonquian language stock who lived along the Platte and Arkansas rivers in the 19th cent. Like other Plains groups, the Arapaho were nomadic, living in tepees and depending on the buffalo for subsistence. They were highly religious and practiced the sun dance. Their social organization included age-graded military societies as well as men's shamanistic societies. They traded with the Mandan and Arikara and were often at war with the Shoshone, Ute, and Pawnee. A S branch was long allied with the Cheyenne and fought with them against Col. G. A. Custer at Little Bighorn in 1876. Today about 2,000 Arapaho live in Wyoming and another 3,000 Arapaho-Cheyenne in Oklahoma.


Ararat
Mountain, E Turkey. Located in Agri province, near the Iranian border, Ararat has two peaks, Great Ararat, at almost 17,000 ft (5,300 m) the highest in Turkey, and Little Ararat, almost 13,000 ft (4,000 m). Ararat is traditionally associated with the mountain where Noah's ark came to rest at the end of the biblical flood. A village on its slopes at the site where Noah is said to have built an altar was destroyed in an earthquake in 1840.


Arawak
Amer. Indians of the Greater Antilles and S. America who spoke languages of the Arawakan linguistic group. The Taino were one Arawak group. The Arawak were apparently the people who C. Columbus first encountered in 1492. The S. Amer. Arawak inhabited N and W areas of the Amazon basin, where they farmed, hunted, and fished. Their society was relatively nonhierarchical. The Campa Arawak lived in the foothills of the Andes but remained isolated from influences of the Andean civilizations.


ASALA
Marxist-Leninist terrorist group formed in 1975 to force the Turkish government to acknowledge the Armenian massacres of 1915 and pay reparations. Its activities have been directed against Turkish government officials and institutions. Its founder, Hagop Hagopian, was killed in 1988. It has been relatively inactive in recent years.


Barlach
German sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He studied in Hamburg, Dresden, and Paris. ...

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