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(äp´sälôn) (KEY) or Axel (äk´s l) (KEY) , c.1128–1201, Danish churchman, archbishop of Lund (1178–1201). He had great influence on politica...
( n´w n) (KEY) , 1863–1940, English architect and town planner. He designed the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick developm...
[Lat.,=sucking from], taking of molecules of one substance directly into another substance. It is contrasted with adsorption, in which the molecules a...
1831–1912, English architect. Breaking away from contemporary Victorian house designs and returning to the Queen Anne and Georgian styles and to tra...
(both: är´nôlt bök´l n) (KEY) , 1827–1901, Swiss painter. Most of his life was spent in Italy. With Feuerbach he led the group of painters know...
(both: d n ´ käl´värt) (KEY) , 1540–1619, Flemish mannerist painter in Italy, where he was known as Il Fiammingo. He studied in Antwerp and late...