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(Encyclopedia)Ama-no-hashidate: see Miyazu, Japan. ...genro
(Encyclopedia)genro gĕnˈrōˈ [key] [ Jap.,=elder statesmen], a group that exercised collective leadership in Japan from the end of the Meiji period until c.1932. After the Meiji restoration (1868), Westernizer...Higgins, William
(Encyclopedia)Higgins, William, b. 1762 or 1763, d. 1825, Irish chemist. After study at Oxford he became supervisor of the Royal Dublin Society's mineralogical collection and in 1800 the Society's professor of chem...Hakone, Mount
(Encyclopedia)Hakone, Mount: see under Hakone, region, Japan. ...Ito
(Encyclopedia)Ito, city, Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Izu Peninsula and the Sagami Sea. It is an important fishing port and hot spring resort. ...Seto-naikai
(Encyclopedia)Seto-naikai, sea: see Inland Sea, Japan. ...Yeddo
(Encyclopedia)Yeddo or Yedo: see Tokyo, Japan. ...Guadalcanal
(Encyclopedia)Guadalcanal gwädəlkənălˈ [key], volcanic island, c.2,510 sq mi (6,500 sq km), South Pacific, ...Hou Hsiao-hsien
(Encyclopedia)Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1947–, Taiwanese film director, b. Guangdong, China. His first feature film, Cute Girl (1980), and subsequent ones were generally saccharine romances until the semibiographical A Ti...Comstock, Anthony
(Encyclopedia)Comstock, Anthony kŏmˈstŏk [key], 1844–1915, American morals crusader, b. New Canaan, Conn. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and was later active as an antiabortionist and in advoca...Browse by Subject
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