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(zhäN bät st´ zh rdäN´) (KEY) , 1762–1833, marshal of France. He fought in the American Revolution, and in the French Revolutionary Wars he com...
(j n ´, j ´n ) (KEY) , 1793–1856, French Canadian fur trader and founder of Milwaukee, Wis., b. near Montreal. In 1818, as an agent of the America...
(t ôdôr´ s môN´ zh frwä´) (KEY) , 1796–1842, French philosopher. He was professor at the Collège de France and librarian at the Univ. of Par...
1443–1513, pope (1503–13), an Italian named Giuliano della Rovere, b. Savona; successor of Pius III. His uncle Sixtus IV gave him many offices and...
city (1993 pop. 16,183), W central Peru, in the Andes. In the vicinity on Aug. 6, 1824, Simón Bolívar, aided by Antonio José de Sucre, defeated the...
in the Bible. 1 See Jude, Saint. 2 Judas Maccabeus: see Maccabees. 3 See Judas Iscariot. 4 See Judah 1 (of which Judas is the Greek form). 5 In the Ac...