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1723–92, English portrait painter, b. Devonshire. Long considered historically the most important of England’s painters, by his learned example he...
(m kh y l´ d m ´tr v ch skô´b ly f) (KEY) , 1843–82, Russian general, one of the military commanders responsible for the Russian conquests in T...
(y n s ´khürths n) (KEY) , 1811–79, Icelandic statesman and historian. A student in Copenhagen from 1833, he developed an interest in Icelandic li...
(n ) (KEY) , 1833–1907, German-American sculptor, b. Münster. After studying sculpture at Munich and Berlin, she traveled widely and executed busts...
period of Chinese history between the fall of the Han dynasty (A.D. 220) and the unification of China under the Sui dynasty (A.D. 589). It is named fo...
(s n p´) (KEY) , anc. Sinope, town (1990 pop. 25,537), capital of Sinop prov., N Turkey, on the Black Sea. A small port, it has an excellent harbor b...