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(sk ´p s) (KEY) , Greek sculptor, fl. 4th cent. B.C., b. Paros. Although numbered among the Athenians, he wandered from place to place and did not at...
rupture or herniation of an intervertebral disc. These discs separate and cushion the vertebrae, the segments of the spinal column. They are composed ...
1860–1930, American rabbi, b. Cincinnati. He was a rabbi at Dallas, Tex. (1884–85), at Galveston (1885–88), and at the Temple Emanu-El, New York...
(f ´l p ôt´ r ng´ ) (KEY) , 1777–1810, German painter. Immersed in the mysticism of the romantic movement in Germany, Runge became a central fi...
c.1580–1631, English colonist in America, b. Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England. A merchant’s apprentice until his father’s death in 1596, he the...
(pr ks t´ l z) (KEY) , fl. c.370–c.330 B.C., famous Attic sculptor, probably the son of Cephisodotus. His Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, found in...