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( ´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...
( 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...
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 (...
( 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...
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...
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...