Biography Category
( z ´m ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 82,679), Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Hii River. It is an important railway and road hub and stock-r...
j ´p r) (KEY) , former native state, W India. It is now part of Rajasthan state. The region of Jaipur is semiarid and mostly level, with scattered ro...
(häns h n´ yän) (KEY) , 1894–1959, German novelist, dramatist, music publisher, and organ builder. Jahnn’s early dramas, including Pastor Ephr...
(jäb´äl ou´´l -ä´) (KEY) or Jebel Aulia (j b´ l´ ou´l ) (KEY) , village, N central Sudan. Nearby is a large dam (completed 1937) that is u...
1863–1943, English author. His humorous sea stories were first collected in Many Cargoes (1896). Of his several horror stories, the most famous is â...
(ch d´ jä´gän) (KEY) , 1918–97, prime minister of British Guiana (1961–64) and president (1992–97) of independent Guyana. Of Asian Indian d...