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Kassala (both: käsä´lä, k s´ lä) (KEY) , city (1993 pop. 234,622), NE Sudan. It is a market center and rail transport hub and has extensive frui...
(b z´ t, l ´k ) (KEY) , 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b. Kabete, Kenya; father of Richard Leakey. His fossil disc...
1904–78, British archaeologist, educated at Oxford. He participated in the British Museum–Univ. of Pennsylvania excavations at Ur (1925–30) and ...
(h p d´ m s) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek architect, b. Miletus. He was the first to plan cities according to geometric layouts. For Pericles he...
(äntô´ny goud ´ k r´n t) (KEY) , 1852–1926, Spanish architect. Working mainly in Barcelona, he created startling new architectural forms that...
(py ´tr b l ´sk ) (KEY) , 1899–1994, Italian-American civil engineer, designer, and architect. Belluschi served as dean and professor at the Mass...