Biography Category
( vr ´ä) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 24,704), Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Dora Baltea River. It is a commercial and industrial center, and it is the head...
(yäk´ pstäd´´) (KEY) or Pietarsaari (p ´ tärsä´´r ) (KEY) , city (1996 pop. 19,905), Western Finland prov., W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothn...
common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or g...
( wä´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 355,812), Fukushima prefecture, NE Honshu, Japan, on the Iwaki River. Once a major coal-mining center, Iwaki now re...
(Philip Douglas Jackson), 1945–, American basketball player and coach, b. Deer Lodge, Mont. Jackson was an All-American at the Univ. of North Dakota...
(j säl´m r) (KEY) , former principality, Rajasthan state, NW India. Its terrain is largely a sandy or stony waste and constitutes a section of the T...