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(s ´m ) (KEY) or Syme (s ´m , s ´–) (KEY) , island, 22 sq mi (57 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, one of the Dodecanese. The main town is S...
(Mário Alberto Nobre Lópes Soares) (mä´ry swä´r sh) (KEY) , 1924–, Portuguese politician. Soares rose to prominence as a vocal critic of the ...
(s ´m nztoun) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 58,323), Western Cape, SW South Africa, on False Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a seaside resort and ...
(Dame Margaret Natalie Cross), 1934–, English actress. Smith first appeared on stage in Twelfth Night (1952). With her precise, sometimes rapid-fire...
1467–1548, king of Poland (1506–48), son of Casimir IV. Elected to succeed his brother, Alexander I, Sigismund faced the problem of consolidating ...
(sl ´zäk) (KEY) , 1873–1946, Czech tenor, pupil of Jean de Reszke. After his debut as Lohengrin at Brno in 1896, he sang in Vienna, Berlin, and la...