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(kä´my nsk- räl´sk ) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 208,000), W Siberian Russia, at the junction of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. A city specializing in m...
(l ôN´ zh - ´) (KEY) , 1879–1954, French Socialist labor leader. He headed the Confédération Générale du Travail from 1909 to 1947, when he r...
book of the Bible, seventh book of the Old Testament in the order of the Authorized Version. It is the sequel of Joshua in the biblical history, telli...
(y ´äkh m y ng´ s) (KEY) , 1587–1657, German mathematician, logician, and systematizer of natural history. In 1608 he made his inaugural dissert...
1882–1941, Irish novelist. Perhaps the most influential and significant novelist of the 20th cent., Joyce was a master of the English language, expl...
(Flavius Claudius Julianus), 331?–363, Roman emperor (361–63), nephew of Constantine I; successor of Constantius II. He was given an education tha...