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(s n´ ´ ´j ) (KEY) , Jap. Shingishu, city (1993 pop. 326,011), W North Korea, on the Yellow Sea at the mouth of the Yalu River. A main northern gat...
(käm ´y flämäryôN´) (KEY) , 1842–1925, French astronomer and author. He served for some years at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau of Long...
pre-Christian religious practices among the Slavs of Eastern Europe. There is only fragmentary and scattered information about the myths and legends o...
government program designed to provide for the basic economic security and welfare of individuals and their dependents. The programs classified under ...
( ´gôn sh ´l ) (KEY) , 1890–1918, Austrian expressionist painter and draftsman. Influenced by the French impressionists, then by Gustav Klimt, Sc...
( r´´ stär´k s, r´´ stär´k s, s ´m s) (KEY) , fl. c.310 B.C.–c.230 B.C., Greek astronomer and mathematician of the Alexandrian school. He ...