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SOS

(Encyclopedia)SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as …———… (three dots, three dashes, three dots). This combination was ...

Náxos

(Encyclopedia)Náxos näk´sôs, nk´ss [key], island (1991 pop. 14,838), c.160 sq mi (410 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; largest of the Cyclades. Náxos, the chief town, is on the western shore. The fer...

Baraka, Amiri

(Encyclopedia)Baraka, Amiri amr brä´k [key], 1934–2014, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as Everett LeRoy Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. In college he a...

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