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Maclise, Daniel
(m kl s´) (KEY) , 1811–70, British painter and illustrator, b. Ireland. His character sketches contributed (1830–38) to Fraser’s Magazine under the pseudonym Alfred Croquis were later published as The...
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Masudi, Abd al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn
(mäs ´d ) (KEY) , d. 956, Arab historian, geographer, and philosopher, b. Baghdad. He traveled in Spain, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, and China and spent his last years in Syria and Egypt. His Muruj adh-...
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Buckland, William
1784–1856, English geologist. He was dean of Westminster from 1845. First to note in England the action of glacial ice on rocks, he did much to bring physical and natural science into high repute and ...
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Unwin, Sir Raymond
( n´w n) (KEY) , 1863–1940, English architect and town planner. He designed the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick development in Yorkshire, and Hampstead Garden near London. H...
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actinide series
a series of radioactive metallic elements in group IIIb of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at. no. 89) is not always considered a member of the...
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Skagit
(sk j´ t) (KEY) , river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Cascade Range, British Columbia, and flowing SW through Wash. into Puget Sound. Gorge High Dam, Diablo Dam, and Ross Dam provide electric...
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Signorelli, Luca
(l ´kä s ny r l´l ) (KEY) , 1441?–1523, Italian painter of the Umbrian school, who probably studied with Piero della Francesca. He worked in Cortona, where some of his paintings have remained. Subsequ...
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Sierra Club
national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world’s parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish...
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Sifton, Sir Clifford
1861–1929, Canadian political leader, b. Ontario. A lawyer in Manitoba, he sat (1888–96) in the provincial legislature and then served (1896–1911) in the Canadian House of Commons. As minister of the ...
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Skvorecky, Josef
1924–, Czech-born novelist. Skvorecky’s first novel, The Cowards (1958; tr. 1970), was banned after its publication because of its ironic portrait of everyday life under Communist rule. In 1968, after...
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Pugin, Augustus Charles
(py ´j n) (KEY) , 1762–1832, English writer on medieval architecture, b. France. His writings and drawings furnished a mass of working material for the architects of the Gothic revival. Among them is ...
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Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
(zhäN-bät st´-s m ôN´ shärd N´) (KEY) , 1699–1779, French painter. He was a major figure of 18th-century painting. While the Académie royale still advocated history painting as the noblest form of art...
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Ledoux, Claude Nicolas
(kl d n kôlä´ l d ´) (KEY) , 1736–1806, French architect. He built palaces and various public buildings, among them the tollhouses (barrières) around Paris (1784). His main work was the planning of an...
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abstract expressionism
movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York ...
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