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Welsh Yr Wyddfa, highest mountain of Wales, 3,560 ft (1,085 m) high, Gwynedd, NW Wales. Its five peaks are separated by passes. There is a rack and pi...
(h m´b lt, Ger. äl ksän´d r fr ´h r f n h m´bôlt) (KEY) , 1769–1859, German naturalist and explorer. His full name is Friedrich Wilhelm Heinr...
breed of agile, spirited toy dog originated in Australia in the early 20th cent. It stands about 10 in. (25 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 8...
(sk ´g r k) (KEY) , strait, c.150 mi (240 km) long and 85 mi (140 km) wide, between Norway and Denmark, linking the North Sea and the Baltic Sea by w...
(gäspär´ p s N´) (KEY) , 1615–75, French landscape painter, b. Rome. The son of a Frenchman named Dughet, he adopted the name of his brother-in-...
(äl´´b mä´z r) (KEY) , 805?–885, Arab astronomer, more fully Abu-Mashar Jafar ibn Muhammad. In his De magnis conjunctionibus he claimed that th...