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Yuman
Any of various Native Amer. groups who traditionally lived in the lower Colorado River valley and adjacent areas in Arizona, California, and Mexico and who spoke related languages of Hokan stock. The river Yuman (incl. the Mojave, Yuma, and Maricopa) lived along the lower Colorado and middle Gila rivers; the upland Yuman (incl. the Hualapai and Havasupai) inhabited W Arizona south of the Grand Canyon. The river Yuman were primarily farmers; the upland Yuman also practiced hunting and gathering. Both lacked settled villages. Yuman religion is characterized by belief in a supreme creator, faith in dreams, and ritual use of song narratives. Today the Yuman number over 4,000.


Cumae
Ancient city west of Naples. Probably the oldest Greek mainland colony in the west, it was home to the Cumaean sibyl, whose cavern still exists. Founded c.750 BC by Greeks from Khalk\u00ed s and Eretria, it came to control much of the Campanian plain. Taken by the Samnites in the 5th cent. BC, it was subjugated by Rome in 338 BC. Under the empire it became a quiet country town. It was destroyed in AD 1205. Remains of fortifications and graves from all these periods have been found throughout the area.


Duma
("State Assembly") Elected legislative body that, with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature (1906-17). It had only limited power to control spending and initiate legislation, and the four Dumas that convened (1906, 1907, 1907-12, 1912-17) rarely enjoyed the cooperation of the ministers or the emperor, who retained the right to rule by decree when the Duma was not in session. In the Soviet era, soviets were the basic unit of government. After the fall of the Soviet Union (1991), the Russian parliament (composed of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet) had legislative responsibilities until its conflicts with Pres. B. Yeltsin reached a crisis in 1993. Parliament's revolt was put down by military force, and a new constitution established a new parliament composed of a Federation Council (in which all 89 of Russia's republics and regions have equal representation) and a Duma, with 450 members elected through proportional representation on a party basis and through single-member constituencies. The president may override and even dissolve the legislature under certain circumstances.


Dumas
French playwright and novelist. His first success was as a writer of melodramatic plays, incl. Napol\u00e9 on Bonaparte (1831) and Antony (1831). His immensely popular novels, set in colorful historical backgrounds, include The Three Musketeers (1844), a romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu, and its sequel Twenty Years After (1845); The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45); and The Black Tulip (1850). His illegitimate son Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895), called Dumas fils, is best known for his play La Dame aux Cam\u00e9 lias (1848), the ...

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