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in U.S. history, political party formed to promote public control of the means of production and distribution. In 1898 the Social Democratic party was...
1927–2004, British pharmacologist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1953. With B. I. Samuelsson and Sune K. Bergström, Vane was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physio...
(g n ´s ) (KEY) , b. 1507, d. after 1564, Indian astronomer. As a boy of 13 in a village N of Bombay, Ganesa wrote a treatise on astronomy, the Graha...
or Siwa (both: s ´wä) (KEY) , oasis, c.35 sq mi (90 sq km), NW Egypt, in the Libyan (Western) Desert. Dates and tea are grown in the oasis, parts of...
(häns r kh´t r) (KEY) , 1888–1976, American artist, b. Germany. A painter and filmmaker, Richter was influenced by cubism and Dada and was a membe...
The earliest documents written in the Slovak language date from the 15th cent. Following the Czech Hussite movement, many Czech cultural leaders emigr...