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PersiaPersiapûrˈzhə, –shə [key], old alternate name for the Asian country Iran. The article Iran contains a description of the geography and economy…
(Encyclopedia) mineral, dietary, any of a group of inorganic elements that are essential to humans and animals for normal body function. In nutrition, minerals are those elements for which the body's…
(Encyclopedia) PharnabazusPharnabazusfärnəbāˈzəs [key], d. after 374 b.c., Persian governor. He had an important satrapy in Asia Minor under Darius II and Artaxerxes II. He was responsible for the…
(Encyclopedia) Boğazköy or BoghazkeuiBoghazkeuibōäzˈköy [key], village, N central Turkey. Boğazköy (or Hattusas as it was called) was the chief center of the Hittite empire (1400–1200 b.c.), which…
(Encyclopedia) Timerman, Jacobo, 1923–99, Argentine journalist, b. Ukraine. Founder (1971) of the liberal Argentine newspaper La Opinión, he focused attention on the desaparecidos, people who…
(Encyclopedia) Chaldaea or ChaldeaChaldaeaboth: kăldēˈə [key], properly the southernmost portion of the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. Sometimes it is extended to include Babylonia…
(Encyclopedia) EcbatanaEcbatanaĕkbătˈənə, ĕkbətäˈnə [key], capital of ancient Media, later the summer residence of Achaemenid and Parthian kings, beautifully situated at the foot of Mt. Elvend and NE…
(Encyclopedia) SmerdisSmerdissmûrˈdĭs [key], d. c.528 b.c., second son of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia. He is also called Bardiya. He was assassinated by his brother Cambyses II, who kept the…
(Encyclopedia) Scudéry, Madeleine deScudéry, Madeleine demädəlĕnˈ də sküdārēˈ [key], 1607?–1701, French novelist. Prominent at the Rambouillet salon, she later had one of the chief literary salons of…
(Encyclopedia) Gaines, George Strother, c.1784–1873, Alabama pioneer, b. Stokes co., N.C.; brother of Edmund Pendleton Gaines. From 1806 to 1819 he was U.S. factor and Indian agent at Saint Stephens…
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