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(j f´n ) (KEY) , peninsula, northernmost part of Sri Lanka, separated from India by Palk Strait. The peninsula is densely inhabited, largely by Tamil...
(j g t ´) (KEY) , d. 1242, Mongol conqueror; son of Jenghiz Khan. He led large armies on his father’s campaigns of conquest. When the empire was di...
(j k ´b ) (KEY) , 1830–1919, American pediatrician, founder of pediatrics in the United States, b. Westphalia, Germany, M.D. Bonn, 1851. He was imp...
( wä´tä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 83,521), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the estuary of the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and...
1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. Th...
1916–, American-Canadian urbanologist, b. Scranton, Pa. In the 1930s she moved to New York City, where she was (1952–64) an editor of Architectura...