Added On....... 13-Sep-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography << First < Prev 1 2    La Farge, Oliver (lä färzh) (KEY) , 1901–63, American writer and anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1924; M.A., 1929). He conducted three archaeological expeditions to Arizona and also ethnological... Kalisz (kä´l sh) (KEY) , Ger. Kalisch, city (1993 est. pop. 106,600), Wielkopolskie prov., central Poland. An industrial center, it has factories producing textiles, clothing, chemicals, aircraft components,... Kandalaksha (k nd läk´sh ) (KEY) , Finnish Kannanlahti, city (1989 pop. 54,000), NW European Russia, on the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea. It is a seaport and has aluminum plants and hydroelectric stations. A ... Juppé, Alain (äl N´ zhüp ´) (KEY) , 1945–, French politician, b. Les Landes. A member of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR), he entered the Inspection des Finances in 1972. A protegé of Jacques Chirac, he w... James IV, king of Scotland 1473–1513, king of Scotland (1488–1513), son and successor of James III. He was an able and popular king, and his reign was one of stability and progress for Scotland. After suppressing an insurrectio... Jacquerie (zhäk´´ r ´) (KEY) , 1358, revolt of the French peasantry. The uprising was in part a reaction to wides... jaeger (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 and the tern. The skua is also a member of this fami... jaçana (j k n´ , j kän´ ) (KEY) , common name for members of the Jacanidae, a family of tropical and subtropical wading birds. Jaçanas, also called lily-trotters and lotus-birds, have long toes and toenails ... isoleucine ( ´´s l ´s n) (KEY) , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l-stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids ne... Honorius 384–423, Roman emperor of the West (395–423). On the death (395) of Theodosius I, the Roman Empire was divided; Arcadius, the elder son, received the East, and Honorius, the younger son, received the ... John Ruskin Not Available Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi, India's sixth prime minister and general secretary of the Congress (I) party. He was the grandson of India's first prime minister, Jawarharlal Nehru, and the eldest son of Prime Ministe... << First < Prev 1 2