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(s näl ´ä) (KEY) , state (1990 pop. 2,204,054), 22,582 sq mi (58,487 sq km), W Mexico, on the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Culiacán i...
1846–94, Scottish biblical scholar and Orientalist. He studied for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland. From 1870 he was professor of Orient...
(n l´ k nz) (KEY) , 1737–1823, English sculptor, b. London. He studied in Rome and in 1770 returned to London, where he became the most fashionable...
(d ´s n) (KEY) , 1868–1939, English astronomer, b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, grad. Cambridge. He was astronomer royal of Scotland (1905–10) and of Engla...
(s ´f n, –f n) (KEY) , tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower lev...
(sm h l´ ) (KEY) , c.1815–1907, Native American prophet, chief of a small tribe (the Wanapun) of the Columbia River valley. He preached a religion ...