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(g s´täf shmôl´ r) (KEY) , 1838–1917, German economist. He was the leader of the younger school of German historical economists, who tried to in...
have been almost entirely religious in character (see Tibetan Buddhism). The art of Tibetan Lamaism retains strong elements drawn from the forms of bo...
(th ´m s) (KEY) , mass of glandular tissue located in the neck or chest of most vertebrate animals. In humans, the thymus is a soft, flattened, pinki...
(lw äNtwän´ d b g Nv l´) (KEY) , 1729–1811, French navigator. He accompanied Montcalm to Canada as aide-de-camp, and he later (c.1764) establi...
1819–1905, Scottish-American educator, b. Edinburgh. Bell worked out a physiological or visible alphabet, with symbols that were intended to represe...
1877–1965, French geographer. He wrote a monograph on Flanders (1906) that earned him the chair of geography at the Univ. of Grenoble, a position he...