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(sûr´m m) (KEY) , ancient city of Pannonia. The site is near modern Sremska Mitrovica, NW Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia. Sirmium was unimportant...
(m ´r ts f n shv nt) (KEY) , 1804–71, Austrian historical painter and illustrator of the romantic school. Best known for the imagination and streng...
common name for a shore bird of the family Scolopacidae (sandpiper family), native to the Old and New Worlds. The common, or Wilson’s snipe (Capella...
(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...
(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...