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(j n ´, j ´n ) (KEY) , 1793–1856, French Canadian fur trader and founder of Milwaukee, Wis., b. near Montreal. In 1818, as an agent of the America...
(zhäN bät st´ zh rdäN´) (KEY) , 1762–1833, marshal of France. He fought in the American Revolution, and in the French Revolutionary Wars he com...
Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bib...
in Roman religion and mythology, the supreme god, also called Jove. Originally a sky deity associated with rain and agriculture, he developed into the...
1928–94, American artist, b. Excelsior Springs, Mo. His sculpture, allied with the minimalist school of the late 1960s (see minimalism; modern art),...
(j r´ , Fr. zhürä´, Ger. y ´rä) (KEY) , mountain range, part of the Alpine system, E France and NW Switzerland, occupying parts of the French re...