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(ärt vän d r n r) (KEY) , c.1603–77, Dutch landscape painter. Working mostly in Amsterdam, he excelled in painting unusual light effects, such as ...
(m ´r n) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek sculptor. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Ageladas of Argos, but he worked largely in Athens. Sculp...
(sk ´k ) (KEY) , village (1990 pop. 59,432), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1888. Its varied products include comm...
1858–1938, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1879). He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...
1771–1845, English clergyman, writer, and wit, ordained in the Church of England in 1794. In 1798 he went as a tutor to Edinburgh, where he studied ...
1924–, Czech-born novelist. Skvorecky’s first novel, The Cowards (1958; tr. 1970), was banned after its publication because of its ironic portrait...