Fibers of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun into thread ....... woven into textile fabrics.

Margaret Brent, because of her skill in managing estates, became ................. largest landholders in colonial Maryland.

The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, in which she often makes her family members ................., are an affectionate and incisive representation of the African American experience.

The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed ofleaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil, ............... the vegetable's strong taste.

A regional writer with a gift for dialect, ................................ her fiction with the eccentric, comic, but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war and through diplomacy

Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americas arrived by crossing the land bridge that connected Siberia and .............. more than 10,000 years ago.

Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of Mexico's winter wetlands.

The American Academy of Poets,  .......... the 1930s, provides financial assistance to support working poets

During the Pleistocene glacial periods ............... portions of the Earth where plant and animal life flourished, making it possible for people to subsist.