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(sköv´d ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 30,540), Skaraborg co., S Sweden, midway between lakes Vänern and Vättern. During the Middle Ages many pilgrims ...
name given by European traders to the coast bordering the Bight of Benin on the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa. It was the principal source of slaves from W...
1887–1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley. He taught at the Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. (1912â€...
(y ´hän l t´v kh ´m l) (KEY) , 1852–1926, Danish astronomer, b. Copenhagen, who worked in Great Britain. He was assistant astronomer at the ear...
(k rt shv t´ rs) (KEY) , 1887–1948, German artist. Influenced by Kandinsky, by Picasso’s reliefs, and by Dada constructions, he invented Merz [tr...
(hwän f rnän´d th nävär ´t ) (KEY) , 1526–79, Spanish religious painter, called El Mudo [the mute]. He studied in a monastery and later in Ita...