Biography Category
The snake has been variously adored as a regenerative power, as a god of evil, as a god of good, as Christ (by the Gnostics), as a phallic deity, as a...
(hwän pänt ´hä th lä kr th) (KEY) , 1553–1608, Spanish portrait painter, court painter to Philip II and Philip III; pupil and follower of Alon...
(sûr´m m) (KEY) , ancient city of Pannonia. The site is near modern Sremska Mitrovica, NW Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia. Sirmium was unimportant...
(Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell), 1913–, English radio astronomer, b. Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England, Ph.D. Univ. of Bristol, 1936. He ...
(m ´r ts f n shv nt) (KEY) , 1804–71, Austrian historical painter and illustrator of the romantic school. Best known for the imagination and streng...
common name for a shore bird of the family Scolopacidae (sandpiper family), native to the Old and New Worlds. The common, or Wilson’s snipe (Capella...