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( säbäl´) (KEY) , lake, c.30 mi (48 km) long and 15 mi (24 km) wide, E Guatemala, largest lake in the country. Known also as the Golfo Dulce, it dr...
(j ´b r) (KEY) or Geber (j ´b r) (KEY) , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have liv...
(Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824–63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846.
Like a Stone Wall
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name given to an unidentified late-19th-century murderer in London, England. From Aug. to Nov., 1888, he was responsible for the death and mutilation ...
(yä´blôn ts nät n ´sô ) (KEY) , Ger. Gablonz, city (1991 pop. 45,937), N central Czech Republic, in Bohemia, on the Lausitzer Neisse. It produce...
1855–1907, American educator, b. Mechanicstown, Ohio, grad. Harvard, 1884. Jackman was a leader of the nature study movement in elementary schools. ...