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1822–1903, American landscape architect and writer, b. Hartford, Conn. He first attained fame for accounts of his travels in the South in the early ...
(d ´r k, d rk, ty ´r bouts) (KEY) , c.1420–1475, early Netherlandish painter, b. Haarlem, active in Louvain. Bouts was influenced by Roger van de...
(jä´k m dä v ny ´lä) (KEY) , 1507–73, one of the foremost late Renaissance architects in Italy. His real name was Giacomo Barozzi or Barocchio...
(äk nkä´gwä) (KEY) , peak, 22,835 ft (6,960 m) high, Mendoza prov., W Argentina, in the Andes, near the Chilean border. It is the highest peak of ...
(gôt´fr t äkh´ nväl) (KEY) , 1719–72, German statistician and political scientist. He used the term Statistik for the first time in his Staatsv...
(stûr´j s), 1836–1909, American architect and writer, b. Baltimore co., Md., grad. College of the City of New York, 1856. He practiced architectur...