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(j ´n z m) (KEY) [i.e., the religion of Jina], religious system of India practiced by about 5,000,000 persons. Jainism, Ajivika, and Buddhism arose ...
name applied to a group of people of mixed descent (African, European, and Native American) living in the Ramapo Mts. along the New Jersey–New York ...
( shtä´pä) (KEY) , resort town, Guerrero, SW Mexico, on the Pacific. Its broad bay was largely untouched until the late 1960s. In 1972 the Mexican ...
(j k n´ , j kän´ ) (KEY) , common name for members of the Jacanidae, a family of tropical and subtropical wading birds. Jaçanas, also called lily-...
(y ns p ´t r yä´kôps n) (KEY) , 1847–85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration i...
(yägy ´l ) (KEY) or Jagello (yäg ´l ) (KEY) , dynasty that ruled Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572, Hungary from 1440 to 1444 and again from...