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(s n ´ä) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 15,817), S central Romania, in Walachia, in the Transylvanian Alps. It is a health and winter sports resort and has...
1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn “America,” written while he was a s...
(Gino Bonichi) (sh pyô´n ; j ´n b n ´k ) (KEY) , 1904–33, Italian painter. Together with Mario Mafai, Scipione was a cofounder of the Roman sch...
(s ´r n) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, one of three sea nymphs, usually represented with the head of a woman and the body of a bird. Daughters of Phorc...
(s r ´n ) (KEY) , in the New Testament, bystander made to carry Jesus’ cross. He was probably an African Jew, and is identified as the father of Al...
1938–73, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began to design large-scale earthworks (see land...