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( shtä´pä) (KEY) , resort town, Guerrero, SW Mexico, on the Pacific. Its broad bay was largely untouched until the late 1960s. In 1972 the Mexican ...
(j k n´ , j kän´ ) (KEY) , common name for members of the Jacanidae, a family of tropical and subtropical wading birds. Jaçanas, also called lily-...
(y ns p ´t r yä´kôps n) (KEY) , 1847–85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration i...
(yägy ´l ) (KEY) or Jagello (yäg ´l ) (KEY) , dynasty that ruled Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572, Hungary from 1440 to 1444 and again from...
( säbäl´) (KEY) , lake, c.30 mi (48 km) long and 15 mi (24 km) wide, E Guatemala, largest lake in the country. Known also as the Golfo Dulce, it dr...
(j ´b r) (KEY) or Geber (j ´b r) (KEY) , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have liv...