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1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn “America,” written while he was a s...
instrument for making numerical computations and readings, the results of which may be read easily and quickly after performing simple mechanical mani...
(sh ´län) (KEY) or Zealand (z ´l nd) (KEY) , Ger. Seeland, island (1992 pop. 1,976,882), 2,709 sq mi (7,016 sq km), E Denmark, between the Kattega...
island group (2002 pop. 214,445), South Pacific, a part of French Polynesia. The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands (total l...
(är´´y bh t´ ) (KEY) , c.476–550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer. He is one of the first known to have used algebra; his writings include ru...
in the United States, begun in 1877 by New York City socialists. Its membership came largely from German-American workingmen. During the 1880s a natio...