Biography Category
( z´´mä l´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 93,000), extreme S Ukraine, on an arm of the Danube delta and near the Romanian border. It is a rail junction,...
(hou´ t) (KEY) , 1892–1954, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941–54), b. Spring Creek, Pa. Despite the fact that he did not have a l...
( wä´k n ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 109,530), Yamaguchi prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Aki Sea. The site of Iwakuni International Airport, the ...
(j f´ , yä´fä) (KEY) , Heb. Yafo, part of Tel Aviv, W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Originally a Phoenician city, Jaffa has been histo...
(h ´l ´´) (KEY) , handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rub...
(y ´g r) (KEY) , common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull a...