[Akers, B. P.], an able American sculptor (1825-1861).
[Akerman`] (55), a fortified town in Bessarabia, at the mouth of the Dniester.
[Akiba, Ben Joseph], a famous Jewish rabbi of the 2nd century, a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, flayed alive by the Romans for being concerned in a revolt in 135.
[Akkas], a wandering race of negro dwarfs in Central Africa, with large heads and slender necks, who live by hunting.
[Akron] (27), a town in Ohio, U.S., seat of manufactures and centre of traffic.
[Aksakof`], a Russian littérateur and advocate of Panslavism (1823-1886).
[Aksu] (20), a trading town in E. Turkestan, 250 m. NE. of Yarkand.
[Ak`yab] (37), the capital of Aracan, in British Burmah, 90 m. SE. of Calcutta.
[Al Rakim], the dog that guarded the [Seven Sleepers] (q. v.), and that stood by them all through their long sleep.
[Alaba`ma] (1,513), one of the United States of N. America, traversed by a river of the name, a little larger than England, highly fertile and a great cotton-growing country, and abounding in iron, coal, and marble, bounded on the W. by the Mississippi, on the N. by Tennessee, and the E. by Georgia.