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(hwä´nä lä b lträn ´hä) (KEY) , 1462–1530, Castilian princess, daughter of Juana of Portugal, queen of Henry IV of Castile. Her paternity was...
fl. A.D. 6, a leader of the Zealots, a radical revolutionary Jewish sect. He raised an insurrection against the taxation census of Cyrenius (A.D. 6) o...
(hwä´nä n s´ d lä kr s) (KEY) , 1651–95, Mexican poet. She is considered the greatest lyric poet of the colonial period. A beautiful and inte...
(j ´´l - n´ ) (KEY) , 1909–2004, queen of the Netherlands (1948–80). She succeeded on the abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina. A popular...
federal executive department established in 1870 and charged with providing the means for enforcing federal laws, furnishing legal counsel in federal ...
(j l´yärd) (KEY) , in New York City; school of music, drama, and dance; coeducational; est. 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art, chartered 1926 as ...