Biography Category
( s k´r t z) (KEY) , 436–338 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Gr...
( t b ´n ) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 185,277), Bahia state, E Brazil, on the Itabuna River. A cacao-producing center, it also has a well-developed catt...
( sh ´käwä) (KEY) , prefecture (1990 pop. 1,164,627), 1,619 sq mi (4,193 sq km), central Honshu, Japan. The capital is Kanazawa. There are wooded m...
(t ´s k tä´gäk ) (KEY) , 1837–1919, Japanese statesman. After taking part in the Meiji restoration, he became (1869) a councillor of state. A ...
( s´k r) (KEY) , river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, rising in the Rhodope Mts., W Bulgaria, and flowing generally NE past Sofia and through the Balkan Mt...
(ärä´tä ´´s zä´k ) (KEY) , 1931–, Japanese architect, b. Oita. One of his nation’s most important contemporary architects, he has an inte...