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or public charity, organized provision of educational, cultural, medical, and financial assistance to the needy. Modern social welfare measures may in...
(ôd lôN´ r dôN´) (KEY) , 1840–1916, French painter and lithographer. He studied in Paris under Gérôme. Later his friend Fantin-Latour taught ...
name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of t...
(h n´r k sh nky ´v ch) (KEY) , 1846–1916, Polish novelist and short-story writer. The best-known of Sienkiewicz’s vivid historical novels is Quo...
1846–1919, American astronomer and physicist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.S., 1865); brother of W. H. Pickering. He was professor of physics (1868â€...
(sy r) (KEY) , Ger. Siders, town (1990 pop. 14,143), Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River. A market town, it is the center of a rich hort...