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or Siwa (both: s ´wä) (KEY) , oasis, c.35 sq mi (90 sq km), NW Egypt, in the Libyan (Western) Desert. Dates and tea are grown in the oasis, parts of...
(g n ´s ) (KEY) , b. 1507, d. after 1564, Indian astronomer. As a boy of 13 in a village N of Bombay, Ganesa wrote a treatise on astronomy, the Graha...
1927–2004, British pharmacologist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1953. With B. I. Samuelsson and Sune K. Bergström, Vane was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physio...
in U.S. history, political party formed to promote public control of the means of production and distribution. In 1898 the Social Democratic party was...
1764–1840, British admiral. He was a distinguished commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and is especially remembered for his de...
tube through which a submarine or diver can draw air while underwater. When in use, the top of the snorkel tube extends above the water surface into t...