Biography Category
( ´´s l ´s n) (KEY) , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l-stereoisomer appears in mammalian p...
( ´s ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site...
(f sy ´v l t vy ´´ch slä´v v ch vä´nôf) (KEY) , 1895–1963, Russian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist, b. Siberia. Ivanov had an a...
( sôr´ ) (KEY) , ancient district of S Asia Minor, on the borders of Pisidia and Cilicia, N of the Taurus range, in present S central Turkey. It wa...
( sh´m l) (KEY) [Heb.,=God hears], in the Bible. 1 Son of Abraham and Hagar; ancestor of 12 tribes in N Arabia. Through Sara’s jealousy he and hi...
(äg st n´ d t rb ´th ) (KEY) , 1783–1824, Mexican revolutionist, emperor of Mexico (1822–23). An officer in the royalist army, he was sympath...