Biography Category
(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...
( ´´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...