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1811–84, American Methodist bishop, b. Cadiz, Ohio. In 1839 he became the first president of Indiana Asbury Univ. (now DePauw Univ.). He edited (184...
(sy ´rä mä´thr ) (KEY) , chief mountain system of Mexico, consisting of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the Sierra Mad...
1854–1926, American sociologist, b. Buckfield, Maine, grad. Colby College, 1876, and further educated in Germany. He was made president of Colby in ...
(s l ´n s) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, part bestial and part human creature of the forests and mountains. Part of Dionysus’ entourage, the sileni a...
(s nd) (KEY) , province (1998 pop. 29,991,161), c.50,000 sq mi (129,500 sq km), SE Pakistan, roughly coextensive with the lower Indus River valley and...
1792?–1860, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada (1821–56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company to Canada, ...