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(yä´blôn ts nät n ´sô ) (KEY) , Ger. Gablonz, city (1991 pop. 45,937), N central Czech Republic, in Bohemia, on the Lausitzer Neisse. It produce...
name given to an unidentified late-19th-century murderer in London, England. From Aug. to Nov., 1888, he was responsible for the death and mutilation ...
(Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824–63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846.
Like a Stone Wall
He served with ...
(j ´b r) (KEY) or Geber (j ´b r) (KEY) , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have liv...
(yägy ´l ) (KEY) or Jagello (yäg ´l ) (KEY) , dynasty that ruled Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572, Hungary from 1440 to 1444 and again from...
(y ns p ´t r yä´kôps n) (KEY) , 1847–85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration i...