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1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. Th...
( wä´tä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 83,521), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the estuary of the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and...
(j k ´b ) (KEY) , 1830–1919, American pediatrician, founder of pediatrics in the United States, b. Westphalia, Germany, M.D. Bonn, 1851. He was imp...
(j g t ´) (KEY) , d. 1242, Mongol conqueror; son of Jenghiz Khan. He led large armies on his father’s campaigns of conquest. When the empire was di...
(j f´n ) (KEY) , peninsula, northernmost part of Sri Lanka, separated from India by Palk Strait. The peninsula is densely inhabited, largely by Tamil...
1854–1916, Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist, b. Australia. He lived in England until 1900, when he went to the United States to edit a revis...