Biography Category
d. 316 B.C., wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great. She did not get on well with Philip, who had other wives, but the story t...
( ´s p d´´) (KEY) , common name for crustaceans belonging to the order Isopoda and in the same subclass as lobsters and crayfish. Isopods are chara...
( s ´säk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 115,938), Gumma prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. The city’s main industries include textiles, transport equip...
( smä l´) (KEY) , 1486–1524, shah of Persia (1502–24), founder of the Safavid dynasty. He restored Persia to the position of a sovereign state f...
( s´´t nb l´, stan´b l) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 6,748,435), capital of Istanbul prov., NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance i...
( p m n n´d s) (KEY) , d. 362 B.C., Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As th...