Word: acadian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watched by hundreds of millions worldwide. Today a quarter of the 300,000 amateur genealogists who visit the Denver Public Library each year are Hispanic. Ukrainian Americans register inquiries at www.carpatho-rusyn.org and Cajuns can search for their ancestors on a CD-ROM of half a million names, compiled by Acadian genealogist Yvon Cyr. In San Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after they have researched family and archival records...
...have come from Atlanta, Geneva, Jakarta and Vienna. Our backgrounds are as diverse as our interests. We have taken classes in Acadian, Afro-American art history, archaeology and astrophysics. Some of us are on the fast track to success, others on the low road to glory. A few of us aren't in the driver's seat at all, but even we will get there somehow...
...Cajun" is a corruption of "Acadian," a region of Nova Scotia that was home to many French Canadians until they were expelled by the British in the 1750s and '60s. Many emigrated to Louisiana, then a French possession, where their language and culture withered, evolving into a kind of folk curiosity. Quebeckers do not want to go the way of the Cajun. They do not want to end up as some colorful ethnic subculture known for its music or cooking or the odd linguistic twist. Quebeckers are driven by a terror of being crushed by an English-speaking continent...
Good things come to players who work hard, and Nielsen was rewarded with one of the oddest goals of his life when his centering pass from the left corner deflected off an Acadian defender into the goal. However, the Crimson wouldn't have scored had Nielsen and his senior linemates Tommy Holmes and captain Brad Konik not managed to forecheck and keep the puck in the Axemen zone for the previous 20 seconds...
Five minutes later, this same tandem along with Holmes combined for the game-winning goal. From the far right corner, Nielsen--after receiving a pass from Holmes--centered the puck, which deflected off an Acadian foot and ricocheted into the net to give the Crimson the definitive 4-3 lead...