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1740–64, czar of Russia (1740–41), great-grandson of Ivan V. He was the son of Prince Anthony Ulric of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and of Anna Leopold...
former island in the Mississippi River, between NW Tenn. and SE Mo.; site of an important western campaign of the Civil War. With the advance of Union...
( tsäm´nä) (KEY) , chief deity of the Maya. Son of Hunab Ku, the creator, he was believed to be lord of the heavens, day, and night. Thought by the...
Ysyk Köl (both: s k´-k l) (KEY) , lake, E Kyrgyzstan, in the Alatau Mts. At an altitude of c.5,300 ft (1,620 m) and with an area of c.2,400 sq mi (...
( sh ´gäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 41,245) Okinawa prefecture, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is an agricultural center where sake and dried tuna are pr...
( ´s bär´´) (KEY) or isobaric line ( ´´s b r´ k) (KEY) , line drawn on a weather map through points of equal atmospheric pressure. Isobars are...