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( lyä´ y f ´m v ch ry ´p n) (KEY) , 1844–1930, Russian historical and genre painter and sculptor. He studied in St. Petersburg and abroad and be...
1835–1912, English scholar and philologist. Skeat took holy orders in 1860, but illness cut short his church career. At Cambridge he served as a lec...
(sh myänôv ´ts shläN´sky ) (KEY) , city (1991 est. pop. 80,600), l skie prov., S Poland. A center of the Katowice mining and industrial region,...
1781–1867, American naval officer, b. near Goshen, N.Y. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800 and resigned after a year’s service, but reent...
(y hä´n s k p´l r) (KEY) , 1571–1630, German astronomer. From his student days at the Univ. of Tübingen, he was influenced by the Copernican tea...
family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the nu...