Biography Category
Ivan Asen ( ´vän ä´s n) (KEY) , d. 1241, czar of Bulgaria (1218–41). On the death (1207) of his father, Kaloyan, founder of the second Bulgarian...
(k ´´k ´´j r ´ sh ´) (KEY) , 1865–1945, Japanese career diplomat. He entered the foreign ministry after graduating from Tokyo Univ. with a deg...
(l s´ s) (KEY) , c.459–c.380 B.C., Attic orator; son of Cephalus, a Syracusan. After the capture (404 B.C.) of Athens by the Spartans, the Thirty ...
( s´m s) (KEY) , narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas. Since it commands the only land route between two large areas and is on two se...
( s´ k r) (KEY) , in the patriarchal narratives of the Bible, son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of one of the 12 tribes. The territory allotted ...
( s´ s) (KEY) , ancient town of SE Asia Minor, now in Turkey, 5 mi (8 km) NW of Dörtyol. Located near the head of a gulf (the modern Gulf of Iskende...