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Jaakobah

(Encyclopedia)Jaakobah jāˌəkōˈbə [key], in the Bible, prince of the family of Simeon. ...

Shethar

(Encyclopedia)Shethar shēˈthər [key], in the Bible, prince and counselor of King Ahasuerus. ...

Dawson Creek

(Encyclopedia)Dawson Creek, city, E British Columbia, Canada, near the Alta. border, on Dawson Creek and NE of Prince George. An important grain-shipping center, it i...

Jerahmeel

(Encyclopedia)Jerahmeel jēräˈmēĕl [key]. In the Bible, prince commanded by Jehoiakim to imprison Jeremiah. ...

Shelomi

(Encyclopedia)Shelomi shĕlˈōmī, shēlōˈmī [key], in the Bible, father of Ahihud, a prince of Asher. ...

Ligne, Charles Joseph, prince de

(Encyclopedia)Ligne, Charles Joseph, prince de shärl zhôzĕfˈ prăNs də lēˈnyə [key], 1735–1814, Austrian field marshal. He belonged to an ancient princely family of Hainaut, in the Austrian Netherlands (n...

Cuza, Alexander John

(Encyclopedia)Cuza, Alexander John ko͞oˈzä [key], or Alexander John I, 1820–73, first prince of Romania (1859–66), b. Moldavia. An officer who participated in the 1848 revolution and in the political struggl...

Salman bin Abdul Aziz

(Encyclopedia)Salman bin Abdul Aziz, 1935–, king of Saudi Arabia (2015–), b. Riyadh. Like his predecessor, King Abdullah, he is a son—by a different wife—of Saudi Arabia's founder, Ibn Saud. Salman served a...

Prince William Sound

(Encyclopedia)Prince William Sound, large, irregular, islanded inlet of the Gulf of Alaska, S Alaska, E of the Kenai peninsula. It has many bays and good harbors; the large Columbia Glacier flows into Columbia Bay,...
 

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