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(gôt´fr t äkh´ nväl) (KEY) , 1719–72, German statistician and political scientist. He used the term Statistik for the first time in his Staatsv...
(äk nkä´gwä) (KEY) , peak, 22,835 ft (6,960 m) high, Mendoza prov., W Argentina, in the Andes, near the Chilean border. It is the highest peak of ...
(jä´k m dä v ny ´lä) (KEY) , 1507–73, one of the foremost late Renaissance architects in Italy. His real name was Giacomo Barozzi or Barocchio...
(d ´r k, d rk, ty ´r bouts) (KEY) , c.1420–1475, early Netherlandish painter, b. Haarlem, active in Louvain. Bouts was influenced by Roger van de...
1822–1903, American landscape architect and writer, b. Hartford, Conn. He first attained fame for accounts of his travels in the South in the early ...
town (1990 pop. 17,872), Middlesex co., E Mass., NW of Boston; settled c.1680, inc. 1735. Among its manufactures are electrical machinery, chemicals, ...