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(shtr ´v ) (KEY) , family of astronomers. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, 1793–1864, was born in Germany but later lived in Russia. While direc...
(s s´ f s) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, son of Aeolus and founder and king of Corinth. Renowned for his cunning, he was said to have outwitted even De...
(s mfy rô´p l) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 344,000), capital of the autonomous republic of Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Salgir River and on the Sevastopol-...
sum set apart periodically from the income of a government or a business and allowed to accumulate in order ultimately to pay off a debt. A preferred ...
c.1719–1806, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Ireland. He settled in Pennsylvania in his y...
(g ´ôrk z m´ l) (KEY) , 1858–1918, German philosopher and sociologist. At the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg he was an influential lecture...