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( s ´-l -m l n ´) (KEY) , suburb SW of Paris (1990 pop. 46,734), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. It is an industrial center where metals, ae...
(h ´ r ) (KEY) , 5th cent. B.C., Greek Sicilian ruler, tyrant of Syracuse (478–467 B.C.). He succeeded his brother Gelon. A noted patron of literat...
member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Italy a...
( shkä´r ) (KEY) , second largest river of Japan, c.225 mi (360 km) long, rising in the mountainous interior of Hokkaido and flowing generally south...
( s´´fyôr´d n) (KEY) [Ice Fjord], inlet of the Greenland Sea and largest fjord of Spitsbergen island, Svalbard, Norway, 65 mi (105 km) long and f...
1666–96, czar of Russia (1682–96), son of Czar Alexis by his first wife. Ivan was mentally retarded, and on the death of his elder brother, Feodor...