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city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers aba...
precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If t...
(s k´l fyör´´th r) (KEY) , town (1993 pop. 1,781), N Iceland, on the Greenland Sea. It is known as the capital of Iceland’s herring industry....
(g r´ t p ´t r k ´p r) (KEY) , 1905–73, American astronomer, b. the Netherlands. Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary scienc...
1811–70, Scottish physician, M.D. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1832. He became (1839) professor of medicine and midwifery at Edinburgh. For a while he employ...
1931–, American biologist, b. New York City, M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1956. A professor at the Univ. of Michigan and Johns Hopkins Univ., Smith wor...