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Abukir (both: ´´b k r´, b ´k r) (KEY) , village, N Egypt, on a promontory in the Nile River delta. Admiral Horatio Nelson’s victory over the F...
1632–1723, English architect. A mathematical prodigy, he studied at Oxford. He was professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, from 1657 to 1...
1890–1957, English artist. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His ...
1918–97, American modernist architect, b. Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at several universities and served as chair of the Yale Univ. architecture depa...
1818–95, American architect, b. New York City, grad. Columbia, 1836. His design for Grace Church (1843–46) in New York City was followed by that f...
(kär´l k n´t ch nyä´n ) (KEY) , 1628–1719, Italian historical painter of the Bolognese school. He was a pupil of Francesco Albani. The influe...