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The snake has been variously adored as a regenerative power, as a god of evil, as a god of good, as Christ (by the Gnostics), as a phallic deity, as a...
(n ´k lous k nst nty n´ rör´ kh) (KEY) , 1874–1947, Russian artist, scene designer, and archaeologist. He was connected with the Moscow Art Thea...
(n r d m´ s h n k´) (KEY) , 1922–, king of Cambodia (1941–55, 1993–2004). Sihanouk was educated in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Paris and...
(s g´ b rt) (KEY) , d. 575, Frankish king of Austrasia (561–75), son of Clotaire I. He constantly feuded with his brother Chilperic I, who had inhe...
(sk j´ t) (KEY) , river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Cascade Range, British Columbia, and flowing SW through Wash. into Puget Sound. Gorge ...
(s k´ m) (KEY) , state (2001 provisional pop. 540,493), 2,745 sq mi (7,110 sq km), India. It is located in the E Himalayas and bordered by Nepal (W),...