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( skär´ n ´m r s ä´r s) (KEY) , 1907–, Brazil’s foremost 20th-century architect, b. Rio de Janeiro. Influenced by Le Corbusier, Niemeyer dev...
(ä´b thä´b , zä–, dä–) (KEY) , Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c.26,000 sq mi (67,300 sq km), part of the federation of seve...
(k n´z täng´ ) (KEY) , 1913–2005, Japanese architect. The Hiroshima Peace Center (1949), for which Tange designed three buildings, won him inter...
( k´´ m n´ dz) (KEY) , dynasty of ancient Persia. They were descended presumably from one Achaemenes, a minor ruler in a mountainous district of SW...
two related classes of chemicals; the members of each class have a number of common properties when dissolved in a solvent, usually water.
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(ä k r ´nyä) (KEY) , formerly La Coruña (lä k r ´nyä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 256,579), capital of A Coruña prov., NW Spain, in Galicia. It is...