People of Darkness (1980)

A common medication, generically known as Aspirin, which is used to relieve pain, reduce fever, and treat mild inflammations and swelling.

A general antibiotic medication that is commonly used to treat a variety of bacterial infections.

The name refers to an iconic frame for eyeglasses which was originally made of horn or tortoise shell. However, those materials are no longer in use, and horm-rimmed glasses are now made of thick plastic. The thick, durable plastic is usually dark in color, making this kind of frame appear bolder and more pronounced than other kinds of frames made of thin metal, for example.

A city located along the Brazos River in central Texas. A group of Wichita Native Americans known as the Huaco resided in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of European American colonizers in 1824, who, under the leadership of Stephen F. Austin, began settling in the area. The Huaco were gradually driven out of the area, and in 1872 were relocated to the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma. The town of Waco grew first around the construction of a bridge over the Brazos River, which served the region's growing population of ranchers and cattle herders. In 1845, the town became home to the first university in Texas, Baylor University. Throughout the late 1880s, cotton was the city's main source of economic growth, but after the arrival of the railroad in 1881, commerce and industry diversified Waco's economy.

In 1993, Waco attracted international media attention when U.S. police and military forces engaged in a prolonged, violent confrontation with the armed members of the Branch Davidian religious sect, whose compound was located outside of the city. In response to allegations that the Davidians were holding illegal weapons, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a military siege of the ranch. The siege period lasted 50 days, and ended in a dramatic shootout, resulting in a fire that destroyed the compound and killed 76 people, many of whom were women and children. The case remains controversial, as many critics believe the extreme response on the part of the FBI was unnecessary.

A private Baptist university located in Waco, Texas. The university, named after one of its founders, Judge R. E. B. Baylor, was chartered by the Texas Baptist Education Society in 1845, making it the oldest academic institution in Texas and generally one of the oldest west of the Mississippi River.

The main laboratory complex of the state of New Mexico's Department of Health, which regularly conducts tests concerning public health and safety. The laboratory examines cases related to infectious diseases, hazardous materials, and environmental contaminants, as well as criminal cases involving drug or alcohol use, and provides scientific and medical consultations and support services to health and environmental agencies throughout the state. The New Mexico State Scientific Laboratories are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Prescription glasses in which the lenses are horizontally divided into two parts, each with a different refractive strength. Usually the upper part is for distant or normal vision, while the lower part is for reading or other close-up work.

The term refers generally to Mexicans, or people of Mexican descent, living in the U.S., and who identify as American. The etymology of the word is not clear, but linguists point to it as a variation of "Mexica," pronounced "Meshica," the name pre-Columbian tribes in Mexico used to identify themselves. In the early part of the 20th century, "Chicano" was a derogatory name used by white people to racialize Mexican Americans, but with rise of the Chicano movement in the 1960s it was reappropriated by people of Mexican descent as a way to create a proud self-defined ethnic identity. Part of this identity included an awareness of territorial longevity, that many who had been denigrated as "outsiders" to the U.S. nation-state had actually been in the Southwest border region, also known as Aztlan, for centuries prior to European incursions, and that it was the international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico that had crossed over these groups, they had not crossed the border.

The Chicano movement, which was part of the greater Civil Rights movement beginning in the 1960s, was a social and political organization initiated by Mexican American communities of exploited farmworkers in Texas and California who came together to protest and demand basic labor rights. The movement expanded ideologically to encompass various social, economic, political, and cultural issues surrounding racial inequality, and developed a rich discourse celebrating the hybrid (Indigenous-Spanish) ethnic identity and culture of Mexican American immigrants and descendants of immigrants living in the U.S. Although the movement spread across the country and has major branches in many big cities, its bases remain particularly active and are still present in the U.S.-Mexico border regions of the Southwest, in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and especially California.

An archival, or preservation and storage, medium in which written material, such as official or personal letters, newspapers, and other printed ephemera, are photographed using a technique that reduces the size of the document to at least one-quarter of its original size. This allows for large volumes of space to be saved, as the microfilm can contain hundreds of documents in one roll, while also providing easy-to-read photographic reproductions that degrade at a slower rate than paper documents. To view microfilmed material, the reel of film must be inserted into a special magnifying device that then brings the image up on a screen while enlarging it back to its original size. Microfilm technology has in great part been replaced by digitized versions of these same sources, although many repositories still retain microfilm collections.

A U.S. government official who was instrumental in founding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and who served as its director from its official initiation in 1935 until his death in 1972. Hoover is known for developing the FBI into a powerful agency of federal law enforcement. However, he was and still is a controversial figure, as there is significant evidence showing that he secretly abused his authority by using illegal methods of surveillance, collecting evidence, and intimidating or harassing criminals as well as non-violent political activists. According to some critics, Hoover was able to maintain his position as director of the FBI for so many years by keeping secret personnel files on political leaders that he used as blackmail whenever the his tenure as director of the FBI was threatened.