Biography Category
( ts k ´-sh m´ä) (KEY) , sacred island, 12 sq mi (31 sq km), in the Inland Sea, Japan, SW of Hiroshima. It is the site of an ancient Shinto shrine,...
( smä l´ z) (KEY) , Muslim Shiite sect that holds Ismail, the son of Jafar as-Sadiq, as its imam. On the death of the sixth imam of the Shiites, Jaf...
( ´s bär´´) (KEY) or isobaric line ( ´´s b r´ k) (KEY) , line drawn on a weather map through points of equal atmospheric pressure. Isobars are...
(l s m´ k s) (KEY) , c.355–281 B.C., Thessalian general of Alexander the Great. He was a commander in Alexander’s fleet on the Hydaspes as well a...
( sh ´gäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 41,245) Okinawa prefecture, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is an agricultural center where sake and dried tuna are pr...
Ysyk Köl (both: s k´-k l) (KEY) , lake, E Kyrgyzstan, in the Alatau Mts. At an altitude of c.5,300 ft (1,620 m) and with an area of c.2,400 sq mi (...