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(fräns ´m l s l´länp ´´) (KEY) , 1888–1964, Finnish novelist. As a young man Sillanpää studied natural science at Helsinki and came under t...
(j vän´n äntô´ny d p rd nô´n ) (KEY) , c.1484–1539, Venetian painter. His real name was Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis. He studied in Venice ...
1894–1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson’s geometric abstractions of landscapes and still lifes are discreetly colored ...
c.863–927, ruler (893–927) and later first czar of Bulgaria. He was placed on the throne by his father, Boris I, who had returned from a monastery...
river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, Northwest Territories, Canada. It comprises the middle sections of the Mackenzie River system. The river channels the w...
(m kh´ l) (KEY) , 1948–, German biochemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Würzburg, 1977. Michel was the first person to reduce a photosynthetic action center, w...