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( k´m sts) (KEY) , school of Russian poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. Gorodetsky and Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev as a reaction against the mystici...
a series of radioactive metallic elements in group IIIb of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at...
or yeti (y t´ ) (KEY) , humanlike creature so named because it is associated with the perpetual snow region of the Himalayas. A figure unknown except...
( b´ d) (KEY) [Gr. for Abihud], son of Zerubbabel in the genealogy at the beginning of the Gospel of St. Matthew....
(ädämäwä´, d´´ mä´w ) (KEY) , plateau, c.26,000 sq mi (67,300 sq km), N central Cameroon and E Nigeria, W central Africa. It is sparsely pop...
( s´´ t l´d h d) (KEY) or ethanal ( th´ n l´´) (KEY) , CH3CHO, colorless liquid aldehyde, sometimes simply called aldehyde. It melts at -123°C...