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(ä´b n wäs´) (KEY) , c.750–c.810, Arab poet, b. Ahvaz, Persia. He spent most of his life in Baghdad. High in favor with the caliphs Harun ar-Ra...
1887–1966, French sculptor and painter. Arp was connected with the Blaue Reiter in Munich, various avant-garde groups in Paris, including the surrea...
(j vän´n l r n´ts , jänl r n´ts b rn ´n ) (KEY) , 1598–1680, Italian sculptor and architect, b. Naples. He was the dominant figure of the It...
common inflammatory disease of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands characterized by blackheads, whiteheads, pustules, nodules and, in the more sev...
( b n´ d b) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Second son of Jesse. 2 Son of King Saul, killed at the battle of Mt. Gilboa. 3 Man in whose house the ark remaine...
( bk z´) (KEY) , autonomous republic (1990 est. pop. 539,000), 3,300 sq mi (8,547 sq km), in Georgia, between the Black Sea and the Greater Caucasus....