Biography Category
( s k´r t z) (KEY) , 436–338 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Gr...
(d m ´tr s f l r´ s, f l r´ s) (KEY) [Lat.,=of Phalerum], d. c.280 B.C., Athenian orator. One of the first Peripatetics, he wrote extensively in...
the development of the Muslim religion on the African continent.
During Muhammad’s lifetime a group of Muslims escaped Meccan persecution (615) by f...
( ´´z rl n´) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 98,480), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It is a commercial and industrial center. Its manufactures inclu...
( s g´ m ) (KEY) , in biology, a condition in which the sexual cells, or gametes, are of the same form and size and are usually indistinguishable fro...
( tä´m ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 186,134), Hyogo prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Muko River and Osaka Bay. It is a residential suburb of Osaka a...