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(äb ´ r hän´ m h m´ d b´ n ä´m d l-b r ´n , l b r ´n ) (KEY) , b. 973, d. after 1050, Central Asian scientist. His earlier years were dis...
(zhôrzh r - ´) (KEY) , 1871–1958, French expressionist artist. First apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, Rouault studied after 1891 under Gustav...
or steatite (st ´ t t) (KEY) , metamorphic rock of which the characteristic and usually chief mineral is talc, but which also contains varying parts ...
(y ´hän t b ´äs s r´y l) (KEY) , 1740–1814, Swedish sculptor. He studied (1767–79) in Rome, and much of his sculpture is in the neoclassical ...
(s n p´) (KEY) , anc. Sinope, town (1990 pop. 25,537), capital of Sinop prov., N Turkey, on the Black Sea. A small port, it has an excellent harbor b...
period of Chinese history between the fall of the Han dynasty (A.D. 220) and the unification of China under the Sui dynasty (A.D. 589). It is named fo...