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fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq m...
(y ´g r) (KEY) , common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull a...
(h ´l ´´) (KEY) , handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rub...
(j f´ , yä´fä) (KEY) , Heb. Yafo, part of Tel Aviv, W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Originally a Phoenician city, Jaffa has been histo...
(hou´ t) (KEY) , 1892–1954, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941–54), b. Spring Creek, Pa. Despite the fact that he did not have a l...
1941–, African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theol...