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(s n) (KEY) , moon god of Semitic origin, worshiped in ancient Middle Eastern religions. One of the principal deities in the Babylonian and Assyrian p...
1872–1973, American astrophysicist, b. Wilton, N.H. He was acting director in 1896 and director in 1907 of the astrophysical observatory of the Smit...
(smôl´t t) (KEY) , opaque tin-white to steel-gray mineral of the pyrite group, a compound of cobalt and arsenic. It occurs in massive form, occasion...
(f l sy N´ rôps) (KEY) , 1833–98, Belgian painter, etcher, and lithographer. In 1857 he founded a satirical journal, Uylenspiegel, for which he ma...
(s ks´t n) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 17,641), New Madrid and Scott counties, SE Mo., in the Mississippi plain; inc. 1874. It is the shipping, marketing...
(y ´ly s shnôr f n kä´rôlsf lt) (KEY) , 1794–1872, German religious and historical painter and draftsman. He studied with his father, Veit Hans...