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Haas
U.S. linguist. Born in Richmond, Ind., she studied with E. Sapir at Yale Univ. Her dissertation was on Tunica, a moribund Amer. Indian language, and she continued her fieldwork on and comparative studies of Amer. Indian languages, especially of the SE U.S., incl. Natchez and Muskogean languages, for the rest of her life. She directed the Survey of California Indian Languages while on the UC-Berkeley faculty (1945-77). Her many students have done invaluable descriptive work on languages heading rapidly for extinction.


ham
Cut of meat consisting of the thigh of a hog, usually preserved through a curing process that involves salting, smoking, or drying. In addition to preserving the meat, curing gives it additional flavor. Sugar or honey is sometimes added to further enhance flavor. Produced throughout the Old World except where forbidden by religious edict (principally by observant Muslims and Jews), ham became a favored food on the farms of N. America. The distinctive qualities of hams of various regions of the world result from unique combinations of hog-raising and meat-processing technologies. Virginia hams, for example, are cut from razorback hogs fed on peanuts and peaches, and smoked over apple- and hickory-wood fires. Ham is a compact source of high-grade animal protein, thiamine, and iron.


Hamas
Militant Palestinian Islamic movement dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of a Palestinian Islamic state. It was founded in 1988 by Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, and its leadership comes from the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas's aims are more militant: it takes the position that Palestine cannot be surrendered to non-Muslims. It opposes the 1993 peace agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.


Alamo
18th-cent. mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic resistance in 1836 by a small group of Texans besieged by a Mexican army during the Mexican War. The abandoned mission was occupied occasionally by Spanish troops, who named it the Alamo ("cottonwood") after the surrounding trees. At the start of the Texas war for independence in Dec. 1835, volunteers occupied the Alamo and vowed to fight to the death any attempt to recapture it. In Feb. 1836 a Mexican army of several thousand began a siege that lasted 13 days. The Texas force of about 180, led by J. Bowie and incl. D. Crockett as well as women and Mexicans, was overrun; all were killed. "Remember the Alamo!" became a rallying cry in Texas's fight for independence.


AM
Variation of the amplitude of a carrier wave (commonly a radio wave) in correspondence to fluctuations in the audio or video signal being transmitted. AM is the oldest method of broadcasting radio programs. Commercial AM stations operate in the frequency range of 535 kilohertz (kHz) to 1605 kHz. Because radio waves of these frequencies are reflected back to the earth's surface by the ionosphere, they ...

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