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1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn “America,” written while he was a s...
(s n ´ä) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 15,817), S central Romania, in Walachia, in the Transylvanian Alps. It is a health and winter sports resort and has...
instrument for making numerical computations and readings, the results of which may be read easily and quickly after performing simple mechanical mani...
(kr s´tôf sh n´ r) (KEY) , 1579?–1650, German astronomer and mathematician, a Jesuit priest. He taught at Ingolstadt, Rome, and elsewhere and bec...
(sh ´län) (KEY) or Zealand (z ´l nd) (KEY) , Ger. Seeland, island (1992 pop. 1,976,882), 2,709 sq mi (7,016 sq km), E Denmark, between the Kattega...
main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in dow...