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(äNdr - ´ dü s rs ´) (KEY) , family of French architects active in the 16th and 17th cent. It was founded by Jacques Androuet, c.1520–c.1584, su...
1793–1864, American ethnologist, b. near Albany, N.Y. He gave enormous impetus to the study of Native American culture and may be regarded as the fo...
1828–95, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt., studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the École des Beaux-Arts; brother of William Morris Hunt. ...
(l ´ f n kl n´ts ) (KEY) , 1784–1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to Jérôme Bonaparte of Westph...
(m rdän´) (KEY) , city (1998 pop. 244,511), N Pakistan, on the Kalagarmi River. It is the site of a military cantonment and of a fort built (1854) b...
(k shm r´, k sh´m r) (KEY) , region and former princely state, 85,714 sq mi (222,236 sq km), NW India, NE Pakistan, and SW China. Kashmir is bordere...