Biography Category
(sm h l´ ) (KEY) , c.1815–1907, Native American prophet, chief of a small tribe (the Wanapun) of the Columbia River valley. He preached a religion ...
in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature...
(sm ´d r vô) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 63,884), NE Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia, a port on the Danube River. Its industries include oil refining a...
1893–1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Living variously in Poland and Russ...
name for members of the Lutianidae, a family of spiny-finned food and game fishes found chiefly in tropical coastal waters. Snappers are carnivorous, ...
(s l r´ n, s –) (KEY) [from the Silures, ancient tribe of S Wales, where the period was first studied; named by the British geologist R. I. Murch...