Biography Category
(kr s´tyän s n´d ng) (KEY) , 1856–1941, Norwegian nationalist composer, best remembered for his lyrical, romantic piano works, including the popu...
(sh n f n) (KEY) [Irish,=we, ourselves], Irish nationalist movement. It had its roots in the Irish cultural revival at the end of the 19th cent. and ...
(s stän´) (KEY) or Seistan (s –) (KEY) , border lowland region of SW Afghanistan and E Iran, c.6,000 sq mi (15,540 sq km), fed mainly by the spri...
(s k´st s) (KEY) , 1414–84, pope (1471–84), an Italian named Francesco della Rovere (b. near Savona); successor of Paul II. He was made general o...
common name for small shore fishes, belonging to the family Antherinidae, abundant in the warmer waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, and named for the...
(s mäng´käs) (KEY) , village, Valladolid prov., NW Spain, in Castile-León. The castle, an old fort rebuilt in the 15th cent., contains the Spanish...