Biography Category
( z´ rd) (KEY) , 1742–1804, American diplomat and legislator, b. near Charleston, S.C. After an education in England, he returned (1764) to South C...
Ixtacihuatl, or Ixtaccihuatl (all: s´´täs ´wät l) (KEY) [Aztec,=white woman], dormant volcano, 17,342 ft (5,286 m) high, central Mexico, on the...
( ´z kä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 83,131), Fukuoka prefecture, N Kyushu, Japan, on the Onga River. Formerly an important coal mining center, Izuka is...
( wä´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 355,812), Fukushima prefecture, NE Honshu, Japan, on the Iwaki River. Once a major coal-mining center, Iwaki now re...
( vr ´ä) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 24,704), Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Dora Baltea River. It is a commercial and industrial center, and it is the head...
( z ´m ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 82,679), Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Hii River. It is an important railway and road hub and stock-r...