C.W. Minkel
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LOCATION: Knoxville, TN, United States
Associate Vice-Chancellor; Dean, Graduate School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Coauthor of Latin America.
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Caracas, city, capital of Venezuela, and one of the principal cities of South America. It is Venezuela’s largest urban agglomeration and the country’s primary centre of industry, commerce, education, and culture. Founded in 1567 as Santiago de León de Caracas, the city grew slowly until the 1940s,…
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