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Anzio
Seaport and resort town (pop., 1991: 32,000) southeast of Rome, Italy. It was founded, according to legend, by Anteias, son of Odysseus and Circe. It was a stronghold of the Volsci in the 5th cent. BC. Conquered by Rome in 338 BC, Antium (as it was then known) became a resort for wealthy Romans. Nero and Caligula were born there. Destroyed by the Saracens in the 9th-10th cent., it remained virtually deserted until 1698, when Pope Innocent XII built a new port nearby. In 1944 it was the scene of a bloody but successful amphibious landing by Allied forces.


Bazin
French engineer. As an assistant to H.-P.-G. Darcy (1803-1858), he completed his program of tests on resistance to water flow in channels after Darcy's death, producing the classic study of the subject. He later studied the problem of wave propagation (see wave motion) and the contraction of fluid flowing through an orifice. In 1854 he enlarged the Canal de Bourgogne and made it profitable for commercial navigation. In 1867 he suggested the use of pumps for dredging rivers, leading to the construction of the first suction dredgers.


Cizin
Mayan god of earthquakes and death. He may have represented one aspect of a malevolent underworld deity known by various names and in various guises. In Mayan manuscripts, he was depicted with the god of war in scenes of human sacrifice; he was also depicted as a dancing skeleton. His death collar was adorned with eyeballs dangling by their nerve cords. After the Spanish Conquest, he merged with the Christian devil, Satan.


Gezira
Region, E central Sudan. Southeast of the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile rivers, it is the site of one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. Begun by the British in 1925, the project distributes the waters of the Blue Nile through a 2,700-mi (4,300-km) network of canals and ditches. It has made the region the most productive agricultural area of the Sudan.


Izmir
City (pop., 1995 est.: 2,018,000), W Turkey. On the Aegean seacoast, it is one of Turkey's largest ports and its third largest city. Founded as early as 3000 BC, it was settled by the Greeks before 1000 BC. It was captured by the Lydians in c.600 BC, and it ceased to exist until it was refounded by Alexander the Great in the 4th cent. BC. It became one of the principal cities of Asia Minor. After being conquered in turn by the Crusaders and by Timur (Tamerlane), it was annexed to the Ottoman empire c.1425. It has grown rapidly since 1945. It has a large industrial economy and a growing tourist trade.


Kazin
U.S. literary critic. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he attended CCNY. His sweeping historical study of modern Amer. literature, On Native Grounds (1942), won him instant recognition. Much of his criticism appeared in Partisan Review, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. His books include Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), Bright ...

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