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(k sk s´k ) (KEY) , small village, Randolph co., SE Ill., on Kaskaskia island in the Mississippi River where it is joined by the Kaskaskia River. Th...
(zhôrzh p r ´) (KEY) , 1832–1914, French archaeologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1875, director of the École normale supérieure, Pa...
(k n t´ y ´hän v k´tôr räs´m s n) (KEY) , 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist. Born in Greenland of Eskimo ancestry on his moth...
(käsh wä´zäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 88,309), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Japan Sea. A resort town known for its hot sprin...
(mär´k s d n ´sä) (KEY) , c.1495–1558, missionary explorer in Spanish North America. A Franciscan friar, he served in Peru and Guatemala before...
(fräNswä´ blôNd l´) (KEY) , 1617–86, French architect. In 1672 he became director of the Academy of Architecture. Blondel’s writings, which e...