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(fränch s´k pr mät t´ch ) (KEY) , 1504–70, Italian painter, called Le Primatice by the French. He was influenced by Correggio and by Michelange...
1894–95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent. The Li-lto Convention of 1885 provided for mutual troop withdr...
(p r´ ts sm l n´sk n) (KEY) , c.1842–1885, Russian novelist and essayist who wrote in Hebrew. He settled in Vienna and founded the Hebrew monthly ...
(sm g) (KEY) [smoke+fog], dense, visible air pollution. Smog is commonly of two types. The gray smog of older industrial cities like London and New Y...
(s lv r´ s) (KEY) , d. 537, pope (536–37), an Italian; successor of St. Agapetus I. The son of Pope Hormisdas, who had been married before taking ...
1904–90, American psychologist, b. Susquehanna, Pa. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1931, and remained there as an instructor until 1936, when...