Biography Category
( tsäm´nä) (KEY) , chief deity of the Maya. Son of Hunab Ku, the creator, he was believed to be lord of the heavens, day, and night. Thought by the...
Ysyk Köl (both: s k´-k l) (KEY) , lake, E Kyrgyzstan, in the Alatau Mts. At an altitude of c.5,300 ft (1,620 m) and with an area of c.2,400 sq mi (...
( sh ´gäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 41,245) Okinawa prefecture, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is an agricultural center where sake and dried tuna are pr...
(l s m´ k s) (KEY) , c.355–281 B.C., Thessalian general of Alexander the Great. He was a commander in Alexander’s fleet on the Hydaspes as well a...
( ´s bär´´) (KEY) or isobaric line ( ´´s b r´ k) (KEY) , line drawn on a weather map through points of equal atmospheric pressure. Isobars are...
( smä l´ z) (KEY) , Muslim Shiite sect that holds Ismail, the son of Jafar as-Sadiq, as its imam. On the death of the sixth imam of the Shiites, Jaf...