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( wä´k n ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 109,530), Yamaguchi prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Aki Sea. The site of Iwakuni International Airport, the ...
(j f´ , yä´fä) (KEY) , Heb. Yafo, part of Tel Aviv, W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Originally a Phoenician city, Jaffa has been histo...
(h ´l ´´) (KEY) , handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rub...
(y ´g r) (KEY) , common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull a...
fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq m...
1912–83, American political leader, b. Everett, Wash. As a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–53) and as Senator (1953...