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river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, rising in Jasper National Park, W Alta., Canada, and flowing generally NE to the Peace River. It receives the Wapiti an...
(sk ) (KEY) , island (1991 pop. 8,868), 670 sq mi (1,735 sq km), largest and most northerly island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland, NW Scotland. It ha...
(sk ´n ) (KEY) or Scania (sk n´y , – ) (KEY) , historic province of extreme S Sweden, now included in Malmöhus co. Skåne, the scene of many ba...
1860–1942, English painter. After a brief career on the stage Sickert was apprenticed to Whistler and later worked with Degas. His preferred subject...
common name for a small, slender fish of the family Osmeridae, closely allied to the grayling of the family Salmonidae (salmon family). Most species a...
(s s´ r ) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Canaanite captain, defeated by Deborah and Barak and murdered by Jael. 2 Family in the return to Palestine....