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feminine name in the Julian gens. 1 Died 54 B.C., daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey. By her grace and tact she maintained the bond between ...
( rnst yüng´ r) (KEY) , 1895–1998, German writer. Jünger’s early war novels were based on arduous army experience. Strongly influenced by Nietz...
(j r´ , Fr. zhürä´, Ger. y ´rä) (KEY) , mountain range, part of the Alpine system, E France and NW Switzerland, occupying parts of the French re...
1928–94, American artist, b. Excelsior Springs, Mo. His sculpture, allied with the minimalist school of the late 1960s (see minimalism; modern art),...
in Roman religion and mythology, the supreme god, also called Jove. Originally a sky deity associated with rain and agriculture, he developed into the...
Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bib...