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(skôp´y ) (KEY) or Skoplje (skôp´ ly ) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 444,760), capital of Macedonia, on the Vardar River. It is an important transporta...
1792–1868, American humorist, b. Buckfield, Maine. He founded the Portland Courier in 1829 and in it began (1830) a series of humorous letters on po...
common name for certain sea birds resembling the related tern. Skimmers (genus Rhynchops) have long, laterally compressed bills of which the lower man...
(h l´ , hô´l ) (KEY) , 1656–1742, English astronomer and mathematician. He is particularly noted as the first astronomer to predict the return of...
tube through which a submarine or diver can draw air while underwater. When in use, the top of the snorkel tube extends above the water surface into t...
1764–1840, British admiral. He was a distinguished commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and is especially remembered for his de...