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(sl ´g ) (KEY) , county (1991 pop. 54,756), 694 sq mi (1,797 sq km), N Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Sligo. The irregular coast line is dee...
in the Bible. 1 One of the Maccabees. 2 or Simon Peter: see Peter, Saint. 3 See Simon, Saint. 4 Kinsman of Jesus. 5 Leper of Bethany in whose house a ...
(s s´ my t´´) (KEY) , formerly Holsteinsborg (hôl´st nsbôr´´) (KEY) , town (1996 pop. 5,117), Sisimiut dist., W Greenland. The second largest ...
1739–1823, American naturalist, b. Philadelphia; son of John Bartram. He is known chiefly for his Travels (1791), in which he describes his journey ...
1939–, Canadian-American molecular biologist, b. Montreal, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1967. A professor at Yale Univ. since 1971, he discovered that ...
Polycletus, or Polyclitus (p l kl ´t s, –kl ´–, –kl –) (KEY) , two Greek sculptors of the school of Argos. Polykleitos, the elder, fl. c.450...