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( 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...
( s k´r t z) (KEY) , 436–338 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Gr...
( ´s pl th´´) (KEY) , line drawn on a map through all points of equal value of some measurable quantity. In many meteorologic, oceanographic, or ge...
( zôn´ts ) (KEY) , river, 87 mi (140 km) long, rising in the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia, and flowing S through Slovenia, where it is known as the So a...