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(p r n´) (KEY) , 1867–1951, American astronomer, b. Steubenville, Ohio. He was on the staff of Lick Observatory (1893–1909) and was (1909–36) d...
(s n ´ä) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 15,817), S central Romania, in Walachia, in the Transylvanian Alps. It is a health and winter sports resort and has...
(kr s´tôf sh n´ r) (KEY) , 1579?–1650, German astronomer and mathematician, a Jesuit priest. He taught at Ingolstadt, Rome, and elsewhere and bec...
main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in dow...
(äNtwän´ s môN´) (KEY) , 1736–94, French revolutionary, often called “the shoemaker,” a member of the Commune of Paris. He and his wife gua...
(h s ´ äs nsy n´ s l´vä) (KEY) , 1865–96, Colombian poet, one of the precursors of modernismo. Silva’s life was shadowed by the loss of a cru...