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Sikhote-Alin
(s kh t - ly n´y ) (KEY) , mountain range, c.625 mi (990 km) long, S Russian Far East. It is composed of a series of ridges lying between the Sea of Japan and the Ussuri and Amur rivers. Its forests a...
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Slave Coast
name given by European traders to the coast bordering the Bight of Benin on the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa. It was the principal source of slaves from W Africa from the 16th cent. to the mid-19th cent.
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Siqueiros, David Alfaro
(däv th´ älfä´r s k ´r s) (KEY) , 1896–1974, Mexican painter, b. Chihuahua. Siqueiros was among Mexico’s most original and eminent painters. His career as an artist was always related to his vigorous...
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socialized medicine
publicly administered system of national health care. The term is used to describe programs that range from government operation of medical facilities to national health-insurance plans. In 1948, Grea...
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Maes, Nicolaes
(both: n ´k läs mäs) (KEY) , 1632–93, Dutch genre and portrait painter. His earlier genre pictures bear, in their manner and coloring, a certain resemblance to those of his master, Rembrandt. In Dordr...
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Matisse, Henri
(äNr ´ mät s´) (KEY) , 1869–1954, French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Along with Picasso, Matisse is considered one of the two foremost artists of the modern period. His contribution to 20th-c...
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Smythson, Robert
1536?–1614, English architect of the Elizabethan era. From 1568, Smythson was freemason to John Thynne in finishing (1567–75) the country house Longleat, Wiltshire. Striking in its symmetry, its outwa...
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Adam and Eve, Life of
early Jewish work included in the collection known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It was probably written in Hebrew between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100. Based on the Old Testament story, it supplement...
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Bode, Wilhelm von
(v l´h lm f n b ´d ) (KEY) , 1845–1929, German art critic and writer. He abandoned law for art and archaeology in 1869. In 1872 he was made assistant in the Berlin Museum; in 1883, director of the dep...
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Roos, Johann Heinrich
(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 Elector Palatine Charles Louis. He is represented in Germa...
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Abington
township (1990 pop. 59,084), Montgomery co., SE Pa., a residential suburb of Philadelphia; settled 1696, inc. 1906. The site of combat during the Revolutionary War, Abington has abrasives and other li...
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Bruyn, Cornelis de
(kôrn ´l s d broin) (KEY) , 1652–c.1726, Dutch portrait painter and traveler. He painted for some years in Italy, where he was known, in Rome, as Adonis. Bruyn is remembered chiefly for the records o...
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Whitaker, Charles Harris
(hw t´ k r) (KEY) , 1872–1938, American architect and author, b. Rhode Island, studied art abroad. Editor (1913–27) of the journal of the American Institute of Architects, he became widely known throu...
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absolute value
magnitude of a number or other mathematical expression disregarding its sign; thus, the absolute value is positive, whether the original expression is positive or negative. In symbols, if |a| denotes ...
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