Biography Category
(h p´ s) (KEY) , tyrant (527 B.C.–510 B.C.) of Athens, eldest son of Pisistratus. Hippias governed Athens after the death of his father. His young...
( tä´m ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 186,134), Hyogo prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on the Muko River and Osaka Bay. It is a residential suburb of Osaka a...
( s g´ m ) (KEY) , in biology, a condition in which the sexual cells, or gametes, are of the same form and size and are usually indistinguishable fro...
( ´´z rl n´) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 98,480), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It is a commercial and industrial center. Its manufactures inclu...
the development of the Muslim religion on the African continent.
During Muhammad’s lifetime a group of Muslims escaped Meccan persecution (615) by f...
(d m ´tr s f l r´ s, f l r´ s) (KEY) [Lat.,=of Phalerum], d. c.280 B.C., Athenian orator. One of the first Peripatetics, he wrote extensively in...