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at Wolfville, N.S., Canada; founded 1838; became Acadia Univ. 1891. It has faculties of arts, pure and applied sciences, management and education, and...
1776–1837, English painter, b. Suffolk. Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent. Constable beca...
(tendo calcaneus) (t n´d k lk ´n s) (KEY) , sinew prominent at the back of the ankle, connecting the tendons of the calf muscles to the heelbone. ...
( k´´t n m´ t r) (KEY) , instrument used to measure the heating power of radiation. Actinometers are used chiefly in meteorology to measure solar r...
( k´´t n m´ t r) (KEY) , instrument used to measure the heating power of radiation. Actinometers are used chiefly in meteorology to measure solar r...
(ändr ´ä br ôs´k ) (KEY) , 1470?–1532, Italian architect and sculptor, known also as Andrea Riccio [curly-headed], b. Padua. As an architect, h...