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family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the nu...
(fränch s´k pr mät t´ch ) (KEY) , 1504–70, Italian painter, called Le Primatice by the French. He was influenced by Correggio and by Michelange...
1894–95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent. The Li-lto Convention of 1885 provided for mutual troop withdr...
(s lv r´ s) (KEY) , d. 537, pope (536–37), an Italian; successor of St. Agapetus I. The son of Pope Hormisdas, who had been married before taking ...
(lw bl r ´) (KEY) , 1872–1936, French aviator and inventor. He devoted the fortune acquired by his invention of an automobile searchlight to the ...
(n ´k m, ny ´–) (KEY) , 1835–1909, American astronomer, b. Nova Scotia, grad. Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1858. Living in the United St...