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( p l´´ dôr´ s) (KEY) , fl. 430–400 B.C., Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model for...
(äl´br kht ältdôr´f r) (KEY) , 1480–1538, German painter and engraver. He served as city architect of Regensburg, where much of his life was sp...
town (1991 pop. 36,459), Lancashire, NW England. The principal industry is cotton weaving. Textile printing and dyeing and the manufacture of machiner...
[according to the Book of Genesis, Heb.,=father of many nations] or Abram ( ´br m) (KEY) [Heb.,=exalted father], in the Bible, progenitor of the Heb...
in U.S. history, particularly in the three decades before the Civil War, members of the movement that agitated for the compulsory emancipation of the ...
town (1990 pop. 17,872), Middlesex co., E Mass., NW of Boston; settled c.1680, inc. 1735. Among its manufactures are electrical machinery, chemicals, ...