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(s s ´n n z m) (KEY) , anti-Trinitarian religious movement organized in Poland in the 16th cent. by Faustus Socinus. Antecedents of the movement wer...
(sl th, slôth) (KEY) , arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical fore...
( rt) (KEY) , 1900–1992, Dutch astronomer. He confirmed (1927) Bertil Lindblad’s theory of the Milky Way galaxy’s rotation. In the 1950s he and ...
(y ´hän h n´r kh r s) (KEY) , 1631–85, German painter and etcher. He specialized in depicting animals and landscapes and was court painter to Ele...
(s l´ch st r) (KEY) , village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 ...
(fl m´st d) (KEY) , 1646–1719, English astronomer. He was appointed (1675) astronomer royal by King Charles II and carried on his researches at Gre...