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(s m´ n st l ´t z) (KEY) [Gr.,= of a pillar], d. 459?, Syrian hermit. He lived for more than 35 years on a small platform on top of a high pillar....
(y ´hän t b ´äs m ´ r) (KEY) , 1723–62, German mathematician and astronomer. In 1751 he became professor of economics and mathematics at the Un...
method of drawing whereby a silver-tipped instrument is dragged across paper prepared with ground bone dust and gum water and then tinted with a pigme...
1 in the Bible, one of the wildernesses through which the Israelites wandered when they left Egypt. It is not the same as Zin. 2 The town Pelusium, wh...
(l k´y r) (KEY) , 1836–1920, English astronomer, educated on the Continent. One of the first to make a spectroscopic examination of the sun and sta...
(s r ´n ) (KEY) , in the New Testament, bystander made to carry Jesus’ cross. He was probably an African Jew, and is identified as the father of Al...