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sum set apart periodically from the income of a government or a business and allowed to accumulate in order ultimately to pay off a debt. A preferred ...
(kôn´rät f n g s´n r) (KEY) , 1516–65, Swiss scientist and bibliographer. Gesner was noted for his scholarship and erudition in almost every fie...
1864–1945, American astronomer, b. Meigs co., Ohio, studied at the Univ. of Cincinnati (1883–84, 1886–87). He was superintendent of instrument c...
(yä´k p vän st) (KEY) , the elder, 1601–71, Flemish portrait and religious painter, b. Bruges. He spent most of his life in Bruges, with the exc...
(s mfy rô´p l) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 344,000), capital of the autonomous republic of Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Salgir River and on the Sevastopol-...
(hwän d lä thy r´vä) (KEY) , 1895–1936, Spanish aeronautical engineer, inventor of a rotary-wing aircraft called an autogiro. He flew his first...