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(nän´n däntôn´y d bäng´k ) (KEY) , c.1384–1421, Florentine sculptor. After study with his father, Antonio di Banco, who worked on the cath...
(s r´ n vä´d ) (KEY) , mountain range, c.400 mi (640 km) long and from c.40 to 80 mi (60–130 km) wide, mostly in E Calif. It rises to 14,495 ft...
1834–1908, American astronomer, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Dartmouth, 1853. He discovered the reversing layer of the solar atmosphere and proved the ga...
name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the...
(äNtwän´ py vz´n r) (KEY) , 1886–1962, Russian sculptor and painter. He was influenced by cubism while in Paris in 1911 and 1913. During World W...
town (1990 pop. 22,023), Hartford co., N Conn.; inc. 1670. Although the town is mainly residential, it produces ordnance, machinery, and chemicals. Th...