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(är´t s kv l ´n s, kv l´ n) (KEY) , 1609–68, Flemish sculptor. His allegorical figures decorating the royal palace of Amsterdam are famous. Quel...
(zhül s môN´) (KEY) , 1814–96, French statesman. His full name was Jules François Simon Suisse. He taught philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1839 t...
(käm ´y p sär ´) (KEY) , 1830–1903, French impressionist painter, b. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In Paris from 1855, he came under the influenc...
(märkäntô´ny r môn´d ) (KEY) , b. c.1480, d. before c.1534, Italian engraver. In Venice he was influenced by Dürer to such an extent that he p...
(väl´t r z ´môns) (KEY) , 1861–1937, German jurist and statesman. He served (1919) as commissioner general to the German delegation at Versaille...
any levy that serves as the government’s only source of revenue. Generally, however, it is understood to mean a tax derived from economic rent and u...