Biography Category
( z ´m ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 82,679), Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Hii River. It is an important railway and road hub and stock-r...
1919–65, American writer, b. San Francisco. She is best known for her stories and novels of horror and the occult, rendered more terrifying because ...
breed of dog developed in the 19th cent. by an English clergyman, the Reverend John (Parson Jack) Russell, 1795–1883, for hunting. The Jack Russell ...
(j k´ b t´´) (KEY) , Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regard...
Ixtacalco (both: stäkäl´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 448,322), Federal District, S central Mexico. It is an industrial center adjacent to Mexico Ci...
(hä n´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 109,338), capital of Jaén prov., S Spain, in Andalusia. It is a marketing and distribution center for a fertile are...