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early Jewish work included in the collection known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It was probably written in Hebrew between 100 B.C. and A.D. 10...
a series of radioactive metallic elements in group IIIb of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at...
Abenaki (both: bnä´k ) (KEY) , Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American lan...
( ´k rnär´´) (KEY) , brightest star in the constellation Eridanus; Bayer designation Eridani; 1992 position R.A. 1h37.4m, Dec. -57°16´. A bluis...
(b n d t´t änt lä´m ) (KEY) , c.1150–c.1225, Italian sculptor. Considered the most important sculptor of the late Romanesque period in N Italy,...
(ält ky ´r dä ts v´y ) (KEY) , c.1330–c.1395, Italian painter, follower of Giotto. He worked in Verona and then Padua. His frescoes in the chur...