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( th´ k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 29,541), seat of Tompkins co., S central N.Y., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region; sett...
( sk n´d r n´´) (KEY) , formerly Alexandretta ( l´´ gz ndr t´ ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 156,198), S Turkey, on the Gulf of Alexandretta, an inle...
(h s ´ th t ´r gärä´ ) (KEY) , 1742–1815, Spanish colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain (1803–8). During his rule, all of Spanish Am...
( vz) (KEY) , 1874–1954, American composer and organist, b. Danbury, Conn., grad. Yale, 1898; pupil of Dudley Buck and Horatio Parker. He was an org...
( sh´tär) (KEY) , ancient fertility deity, the most widely worshiped goddess in Babylonian and Assyrian religion. She was worshiped under various na...
(d m s´th n z) (KEY) , 384?–322 B.C., Greek orator, generally considered the greatest of the Greek orators. He was a pupil of Isaeus, and—althoug...