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fauna
All the species of animals found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Five faunal realms, based on terrestrial animal species, are generally recognized: Holarctic, incl. Nearactic (N. America) and Paleartic (Eurasia and N Africa); Paleotropical (tropical Africa and S.E. Asia); Neotropical (Central and S. America); Australian; and Antarctic.


Nahua
Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztecs are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, using the slash-and-burn technique and cultivating both common and private land. They are skilled weavers, using fibers of the maguey plant, wool, and cotton. Nahua parents and godparents have strong ties in a fictive kin relationship. Though they profess Roman Catholicism, the Nahua believe in witchcraft and recognize a variety of supernatural beings. See also Nahuatl language.


sauna
Bath in steam from water thrown on heated stones. Known in ancient times in various places, saunas are most closely identified with the Finnish people, who made saunas a national tradition. Traditionally, a wooden hut is built near the edge of a lake, with rows of flat stones inside. These are heated by burning wood in a space under the floor. Cold water is then thrown on them to create steam. The unclothed users sit on wooden benches in the steam-filled hut, then beat themselves with branches until their skin is red and tingling and dive into the cold water, or in winter roll in the snow. These extreme temperature changes are thought to have a beneficial effect on the circulation. In an adapted form, saunas are popular today in gymnasiums and health clubs.


yakuza
Japanese gangsters. Yakuza, who trace their roots back to ronin, often adopt samurai-like rituals and identify themselves with elaborate body tattoos. They engage in such organized-crime pursuits as extortion, blackmail, smuggling, prostitution, drugs, and gambling, and they control many restaurants, bars, trucking companies, and taxi fleets in Japanese cities. Their numbers today exceed 150,000; they are organized into more than 2,000 gangs, most affiliated under the umbrella of one of a dozen or fewer conglomerate gangs. Yakuza gangs are rigidly hierarchical, and the price for disappointing the gang is often to be forced to cut off one's own finger.


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City (pop., 1992 est.: 800,000), capital of Cameroon. It was founded in 1888 while Cameroon was a German protectorate. The area came under French control, and it was declared the capital of French Cameroun in 1922. In 1940-46 it was replaced as the capital by Douala, but after Cameroon achieved independence in 1960, it again became the seat. It contains several small manufacturing and processing industries (sawmills and printing presses) and is the area's agricultural market.

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