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(hä´kä) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 10,874), Huesca prov., NE Spain, in Aragón, in the Pyrenees (alt. c.2,700 ft/820 m), near the French border on the...
1855–1907, American educator, b. Mechanicstown, Ohio, grad. Harvard, 1884. Jackman was a leader of the nature study movement in elementary schools. ...
(yä´blôn ts nät n ´sô ) (KEY) , Ger. Gablonz, city (1991 pop. 45,937), N central Czech Republic, in Bohemia, on the Lausitzer Neisse. It produce...
name given to an unidentified late-19th-century murderer in London, England. From Aug. to Nov., 1888, he was responsible for the death and mutilation ...
(Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824–63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846.
Like a Stone Wall
He served with ...
(j ´b r) (KEY) or Geber (j ´b r) (KEY) , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have liv...