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(sy ´rä n vä´thä) (KEY) , chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Medi...
(l t´v kh f n z ´g n) (KEY) , c.1609–1680, German engraver, b. Holland, educated in Germany. He is said to have invented (c.1640) the mezzotint pr...
(y ´ly s shnôr f n kä´rôlsf lt) (KEY) , 1794–1872, German religious and historical painter and draftsman. He studied with his father, Veit Hans...
(s ks´t n) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 17,641), New Madrid and Scott counties, SE Mo., in the Mississippi plain; inc. 1874. It is the shipping, marketing...
(f l sy N´ rôps) (KEY) , 1833–98, Belgian painter, etcher, and lithographer. In 1857 he founded a satirical journal, Uylenspiegel, for which he ma...
(smôl´t t) (KEY) , opaque tin-white to steel-gray mineral of the pyrite group, a compound of cobalt and arsenic. It occurs in massive form, occasion...