Biography Category
associations of individuals with a common professional interest, intended to promote learning. Many societies publish the proceedings of their meeting...
inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars and cigarettes and pipes. Some persons draw the smoke into their lungs; others do ...
vehicle designed to travel over snow, ice, and similar surfaces that offer limited traction and weight-supporting capability. As the performance of th...
(s ´r k) or Ecclesiasticus ( kl ´´z s´t k s) (KEY) [Lat. from Gr.,=ecclesiastical], book included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic ca...
(s ´rôs) (KEY) or Syros (s ´r s) (KEY) , island (1991 pop. 19,870), 33 sq mi (85 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades. Ermoup...
fl. 5th cent., Byzantine historian. His Ecclesiastical History (in Greek, 7 vol.) continues the work of Eusebius for the period from 305 to 439. The w...