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(py r fräNswä´ l när´ fôNt n´) (KEY) , 1762–1853, French architect. He was known chiefly for the work which, beginning in 1794, he did joint...
1825–1910, American anthropologist and entomologist, b. Kingsport, Tenn. He was a lawyer, then a minister (1865–69) of the Evangelical Lutheran Ch...
(käs´ l) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 202,160), Hesse, central Germany, on the Fulda River. It is an industrial, rail, and cultural center. Manufactures ...
(zhäN lw shärl gärny ´) (KEY) , 1825–98, French architect, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Grand Prix de Rome (1848). He was a...
(yän käsprô´v ch) (KEY) , 1860–1926, Polish poet. His writings progressed from social revolt (e.g., From a Peasant’s Field, 1891) to poems of ...
1897–1958, American anthropologist and sociologist, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1920; Ph.D., 1928). He began teaching at the Univ. of ...