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1744–1818, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams, b. Weymouth, Mass. She was born Abigail Smith. A lively, intellig...
the position of a tone in the musical scale determined according to its number of vibrations per second, irrespective of other tones. The term also de...
book of the New Testament. It is the only 1st-century account of the expansion of Christianity in its earliest period. It was written in Greek anonymo...
(noi´tr , n ´tr ) (KEY) , 1892–1970, American architect, born and educated in Vienna. Although Neutra worked for a time with Eric Mendelsohn and l...
(häns shär´oun) (KEY) , 1893–1972, German architect. A member of the Expressionist circle, Scharoun used a dynamic, sculptural approach to design...
( ´ ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and...