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range of the Australian Alps, SE Australia. It is the site of the Snowy Mts. Hydroelectric Scheme, Australia’s most extensive hydroelectricity and i...
(s ´täp r) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 121,842), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. The town is a market for grain, oilseed, and jute. The sugar and ...
(kär´l s th s gw n´sä g ng´g rä) (KEY) , 1645–1700, Mexican writer and humanist. The foremost intellectual figure of colonial Mexico, he wro...
(slois) (KEY) , municipality, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, on the Scheldt estuary, near the Belgian border. Sluis was founded in the 13th cent. and ...
(s k´r t z) (KEY) , 469–399 B.C., Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for his view of philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intellige...
any of various plants having cleansing properties. A few are of commercial importance, but most soap plants are used locally, as in early times, for t...