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Iaşi

(Encyclopedia) Iaşi Iaşi yäsh [key] or Jassy Iaşi yäˈsē…

Fillon, François Charles Amand

(Encyclopedia) Fillon, François Charles AmandFillon, François Charles AmandfräNswäˈ shärl ämäNˈ fēyôNˈ [key], 1954–, French political leader, b. Le Mans. A conservative, he served as an assembly…

Timişoara

(Encyclopedia) TimişoaraTimişoaratēmēshwäˈrä [key], Hung. Temesvár, city (1990 pop. 351,293), W Romania, in the Banat, on the Beja Canal. The chief city of the former Banat of Temesvar, it is a…

Marshall, Thurgood

(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Thurgood, 1908–93, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), b. Baltimore. He received his law degree from Howard Univ. in 1933. In 1936 he…

de Klerk, F. W.

(Encyclopedia) de Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem de Klerk) de Klerk, F. W. frĕdˈərĭk vĭlˈəm…

Princeton University

(Encyclopedia) Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Established by the “New Light” (…

Qian Zhongshu

(Encyclopedia) Qian Zhongshu or Ch'ien Chung-shu, 1910–98, Chinese writer and scholar, grad. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (1933). After attending Oxford and the Sorbonne, he returned (1939) to China and…

Johannesburg

(Encyclopedia) JohannesburgJohannesburgjōhănˈĭsbörgˌ, yōhäˈnəsbörkhˌ [key], city, now part and seat of City of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa, on the southern…

Bhopal

(Encyclopedia) BhopalBhopalbōˈpäl [key], former principality, Madhya Pradesh state, central India. A region of rolling downs and thickly forested hills, it is predominantly agricultural. Its Buddhist…