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10th letter of the alphabet, a Western European medieval development of I, with which it was formerly quite interchangeable in writing. It is pronounc...
(hä n´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 109,338), capital of Jaén prov., S Spain, in Andalusia. It is a marketing and distribution center for a fertile are...
Ixtacalco (both: stäkäl´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 448,322), Federal District, S central Mexico. It is an industrial center adjacent to Mexico Ci...
(j k´ b t´´) (KEY) , Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regard...
breed of dog developed in the 19th cent. by an English clergyman, the Reverend John (Parson Jack) Russell, 1795–1883, for hunting. The Jack Russell ...
1919–65, American writer, b. San Francisco. She is best known for her stories and novels of horror and the occult, rendered more terrifying because ...