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(s t´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 8,588), Sitka census div., SE Alaska, in the Alexander Archipelago, on Baranof Island; inc. 1971. Fishing, its first...
common name for a florists’ plant of two separate genera (Asparagus and Smilax), both of the family Liliaceae (lily family, although some botanists ...
(s nt-n ´kläs) (KEY) , Fr. Saint-Nicolas, city (1991 pop. 68,203), East Flanders prov., N Belgium. It is the commercial, industrial, and transportat...
(l ´kä s ny r l´l ) (KEY) , 1441?–1523, Italian painter of the Umbrian school, who probably studied with Piero della Francesca. He worked in Cort...
(s kôr´sk ) (KEY) , 1889–1972, American aeronautical engineer, b. Kiev, Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and was naturalized in ...
(zhôrzh sörä´) (KEY) , 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. Hi...