Biography Category
( ´z kä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 83,131), Fukuoka prefecture, N Kyushu, Japan, on the Onga River. Formerly an important coal mining center, Izuka is...
(j k´ b ts´´) (KEY) , adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and S...
or Jehangir (both: j hän´´g r´) (KEY) , 1569–1627, Mughal emperor of India (1605–27), son of Akbar. He continued his father’s policy of expa...
(jä´j ) (KEY) , fl. 1869–87, Nigerian merchant prince. A former slave, he became an important trader in Bonny in the 1860s as a middleman between ...
(fräNswä´ zhäkôb´) (KEY) , 1920–, French biologist, educated at the Sorbonne. His medical studies were interrupted by World War II. He joined ...
(r män´ yäk´ôbs n) (KEY) , 1896–1982, Russian-American linguist and literary critic, b. Moscow. His early work was grounded in structural lingu...