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(sl vyänsk´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 135,000), E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin. It is a railroad junction and has salt and soda works. Manufactures i...
small drum having a drumhead at either end. One head is struck with wooden drumsticks, and on the other are stretched several strings, called snares, ...
name commonly used for a gastropod mollusk with a shell. Included in the thousands of species are terrestrial, freshwater, and marine forms. Some eat ...
(m kh y l´ d m ´tr v ch skô´b ly f) (KEY) , 1843–82, Russian general, one of the military commanders responsible for the Russian conquests in T...
(y n s ´khürths n) (KEY) , 1811–79, Icelandic statesman and historian. A student in Copenhagen from 1833, he developed an interest in Icelandic li...
period of Chinese history between the fall of the Han dynasty (A.D. 220) and the unification of China under the Sui dynasty (A.D. 589). It is named fo...