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common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or g...
( wä´k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 355,812), Fukushima prefecture, NE Honshu, Japan, on the Iwaki River. Once a major coal-mining center, Iwaki now re...
(Philip Douglas Jackson), 1945–, American basketball player and coach, b. Deer Lodge, Mont. Jackson was an All-American at the Univ. of North Dakota...
(j säl´m r) (KEY) , former principality, Rajasthan state, NW India. Its terrain is largely a sandy or stony waste and constitutes a section of the T...
( ´z kä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 83,131), Fukuoka prefecture, N Kyushu, Japan, on the Onga River. Formerly an important coal mining center, Izuka is...
(j k´ b ts´´) (KEY) , adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and S...