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Edhessa

(Encyclopedia)Edhessa vôᵺānäˈ [key], city, capital of Pella prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia. It is a ...

Alderney

(Encyclopedia)Alderney ōrēnyēˈ [key], anc. Riduna, island, c. 3 sq mi (7.7 sq km), in the English Channel, northernmost of the larger Channel Islands. It is separated from the Frenc...

Corelli, Marie

(Encyclopedia)Corelli, Marie məkīˈ [key], 1855–1924, English novelist. Her popular, highly moralistic books, written in flamboyant, pretentious prose, include A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), Thelma (1887), Bar...

Ciudad Rodrigo

(Encyclopedia)Ciudad Rodrigo rôᵺrēˈgō [key], town, Salamanca prov., central Spain, in Castile and León, ...

Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich

(Encyclopedia)Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich äksäˈkôf [key], 1791–1859, Russian writer, known for his nostalgic descriptions of the Orenburg region. Aksakov's chief work is Family Chronicle (1856, tr. 1924), a...

Chevalier, Michel

(Encyclopedia)Chevalier, Michel shəvälyāˈ [key], 1806–79, French economist. An ardent Saint-Simonian as a youth, he later favored a form of welfare capitalism. He advocated industrial development as the key ...

chalcopyrite

(Encyclopedia)chalcopyrite pīrīˈtēz, pə– [key], brass-yellow mineral, sometimes with an iridescent tarnish. It is a sulfide of copper and iron, CuFeS2 . It crystallizes in the tetragonal system but is usua...

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?

(Encyclopedia)Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? ēˈloi; āˈloi [key] [Eli, Eloi: Heb. or Aramaic,=Lord; lama sabachthani?: Aramaic,=why hast thou forsaken me?], in the New Testament, words of Jesus on the cross. The Gr...

Eluru

(Encyclopedia)Eluru ĕlōrˈ [key], city, Andhra Pradesh state, E central India. It is a district administr...

Shaki, city, Azerbaijan

(Encyclopedia)Shaki shĕkˈ– [key], city (1989 pop. 56,223), N Azerbaijan, on the southern slopes of the Caucasus. It is a silk and manufacturing center in a district that grows fruit and rice. Until its annexati...