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Bishkek
City (pop., 1996 est.: 590,000), capital of Kyrgyzstan. It lies on the Chu River near the Kyrgyz Mtns. on the Kazakstan border. In 1825 the Uzbek khanate of Kokand (see Quqon) established a fortress on the site, which in 1862 was captured by the Russians, who misunderstood it as named Pishpek. When the Kirgiz (Kyrgyz) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was set up in 1926, the city became its capital and was renamed Frunze after a Red Army leader who was born there. It developed as an industrial city, especially in World War II when heavy industries from W Russia were moved there.
bishop
In some Christian churches, the chief pastor and overseer of a diocese, an area containing several congregations. From the 4th cent. AD until the Reformation, bishops held broad secular and religious powers, incl. the settling of disputes, ordination of clergy, and confirmation of church members. Some Christian churches (notably the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches) continue the bishop's office and the doctrine of apostolic succession. Others, incl. some Lutheran and Methodist churches, retain bishops but not the principle of apostolic succession; still others have abolished the office altogether. Popes, cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, and metropolitans are gradations of bishops. In Roman Catholicism, the pope selects the bishop; in Anglicanism, the dean and chapter of the cathedral of the diocese elect the bishop; in Methodism a synod chooses the bishop. See also episcopacy.
fish
Any of various cold-blooded vertebrates found worldwide in freshwater and salt water. Living species range from the primitive lampreys and hagfishes through the cartilaginous sharks, skates, and rays to the abundant and diverse bony fishes. Species range in length from 0.4 in. to more than 60 ft (10 mm-20 m). The body is generally tapered at both ends. Most species that inhabit surface or midwater regions are streamlined or are flattened side to side; most bottom-dwellers are flattened top to bottom. Tropical species are often brightly colored. Most species have paired fins and skin covered with either bony or toothlike scales. Fish generally respire through gills. Most bony fishes have a swim bladder, a gas-filled organ used to adjust swimming depth. Most species lay eggs, which may be fertilized externally or internally. Fishes first appeared more than 450 million years ago.
fishing
Sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Fishing is as old as the human ability to use tools to capture prey. The first significant modern innovations, incl. use of a reel, a rod with line guides, and a hook with an offset point, came in the late 17th and early 18th cent. Horsehair was used as line until the mid-19th cent, when it was replaced by textile materials, in turn replaced in the 1930s by nylon. Wood and bamboo rods yielded to rods of ...
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