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( vz) (KEY) , 1874–1954, American composer and organist, b. Danbury, Conn., grad. Yale, 1898; pupil of Dudley Buck and Horatio Parker. He was an org...
(h s ´ th t ´r gärä´ ) (KEY) , 1742–1815, Spanish colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain (1803–8). During his rule, all of Spanish Am...
( sk n´d r n´´) (KEY) , formerly Alexandretta ( l´´ gz ndr t´ ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 156,198), S Turkey, on the Gulf of Alexandretta, an inle...
( th´ k ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 29,541), seat of Tompkins co., S central N.Y., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region; sett...
( s´m n) (KEY) , athletic events organized c.581 B.C. They were held at Corinth in the spring of the first and third years of the Olympiad, and they...
( z´ dôr´´) (KEY) , c.560–636, Spanish churchman and encyclopedist, bishop of Seville, Doctor of the Church. Born of a noble Hispano-Roman famil...