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(sm g) (KEY) [smoke+fog], dense, visible air pollution. Smog is commonly of two types. The gray smog of older industrial cities like London and New Y...
(p r´ ts sm l n´sk n) (KEY) , c.1842–1885, Russian novelist and essayist who wrote in Hebrew. He settled in Vienna and founded the Hebrew monthly ...
1894–95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent. The Li-lto Convention of 1885 provided for mutual troop withdr...
(fränch s´k pr mät t´ch ) (KEY) , 1504–70, Italian painter, called Le Primatice by the French. He was influenced by Correggio and by Michelange...
family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the nu...
(y hä´n s k p´l r) (KEY) , 1571–1630, German astronomer. From his student days at the Univ. of Tübingen, he was influenced by the Copernican tea...