(Encyclopedia) cod, member of the large family Gadidae, comprising commercially important food fishes. The family, whose members are found in the N Atlantic and Pacific, includes the tomcods, the…
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(Encyclopedia) Rodney, Walter, 1942–1980, Scholar and revolutionary, b. Georgetown, British Guiana. Ph.D. School of African and Oriental Studies, 1966…
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Rhododendron, Rhododendron maximum, a member of the heath family
heath, in botany, common name for some members of the Ericaceae, a family of chiefly evergreen shrubs with…
(Encyclopedia) Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sens&oomacr;n yät-sĕn [key], Mandarin Sun Wen, 1866–1925, Chinese revolutionary. He was born near Guangzhou into a farm-owning family. He attended (1879–82) an…
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