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Mahan
U.S. naval officer and historian. Born in West Point, N.Y., he studied at the U.S. Naval Academy. His nearly 40 years of active naval duty included fighting in the Amer. Civil War. He was president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (1886-89). His classic analysis The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) argued that sea power was decisive in determining national supremacy. In The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812 (1892), he stressed the interdependence of military and commercial control of the sea. Avidly read in Britain and Germany, both books greatly influenced the buildup of naval forces before World War I.


Akan
Cluster of peoples inhabiting S Ghana, E Ivory Coast, and parts of Togo. Their languages are of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. In the 14th-18th cent. several Akan states, notably the Fante confederacy and the Ashanti empire, formed in regions where gold was produced and traded. Today many of the Akan, who number about 5 million, work in urban districts.


Ashanti
People of S Ghana and adjacent areas of Togo and the Ivory Coast. A section of the Akan peoples, they speak Twi, a language of the Kwa group; they number about 5 million. Though some Ashanti now live and work in urban centers, they remain primarily a village people engaged in agriculture. The symbol of Ashanti unity is the Golden Stool, formerly used as a throne by the paramount chief. The Ashanti supplied slaves to British and Dutch traders in exchange for firearms, which they used to build up a large empire in the 18th-19th cent. They fought several wars against the British (1824, 1863, 1869, 1874), finally losing their capital, Kumasi, in 1896. Thereafter what remained of the empire went into decline. Ashanti gold work and kente cloth remain prominent items of trade. See also Fante.


-->Baha'i

Religion founded in Iran in the mid-19th cent. by Baha Ullah. It emerged from Babism when in 1863 Baha Ullah asserted that he was the messenger of God predicted by the Bab. Before his death in 1892, he appointed his son Abd ol-Baha to lead the community. The writings of the Bab, Baha Ullah, and Abd ol-Baha form the sacred literature. Worship consists of readings from scriptures of all religions. Baha'i faith proclaims the essential unity of all religions and the unity of humanity. It is concerned with social ethics and has no priesthood or sacraments. Because of its 19 initial disciples, it considers the number 19 sacred, and the calendar consists of 19 months of 19 days (with four additional days). Adherents are expected to pray daily, fast 19 days a year, and keep to a strict ethical code. Baha'i has experienced major growth since the 1960s but has been persecuted in Iran since the fundamentalist revolution of 1979.


Bahamas
Archipelago and nation consisting of about 700 islands and numerous cays, NW edge of the W. Indies, lying ...

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