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(Erica Mann Jong) (jông, zhông) (KEY) , 1942–, American novelist and poet, b. New York City. She created a sensation with Fear of Flying (1973), a...
(zhôNky r´) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 57,933), S Que., Canada, on the Saguenay River, W of Chicoutimi. Its chief industries produce paper, pulp, and a...
fl. c.1190, English poet who wrote in Latin. He is best known for De Bello Trojano (c.1184), an epic poem in six books, written in the style of Vergil...
(j p´l n), 1868–1917, American ragtime pianist and composer, b. Texarkana, Tex. Self-taught, Joplin left home in his early teens to seek his fortun...
husband of the Virgin Mary, a carpenter, a descendant of the house of David. He was apparently dead at the time of the Passion, for his last appearanc...
(n k-k lô´ y m-m l´l ) (KEY) , 1714–74, Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school, who worked variously in Vienna, Rome, Stuttgart, and eve...