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Mazo, Juan Bautista Martínez del

(Encyclopedia) Mazo, Juan Bautista Martínez delMazo, Juan Bautista Martínez delhwän boutēsˈtä märtēˈnĕth dĕl mäˈthō [key], c.1612–1667, Spanish portrait and landscape painter. He was the pupil and…

Lyonnais

(Encyclopedia) LyonnaisLyonnaislyônāˈ [key], region and former province, E central France, now divided into the Rhône and Loire depts. It included Lyonnais proper (the region around Lyons, its…

march, in music

(Encyclopedia) march, in music, composition intended to accompany marching. The only constant characteristics of a march are duple meter and a fairly simple rhythmic design. In mood, marches range…

Mende

(Encyclopedia) MendeMendemäNd [key], city (1990 pop. 12,667), capital of Lozère dept., S France, on the Lot River. Mende is a tourist resort. It was originally a small Gallo-Roman city that became an…

Day, John, English dramatist

(Encyclopedia) Day, John, 1574?–1640?, English dramatist. Educated at Cambridge, he was one of Philip Henslowe's group of playwrights, collaborating with Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and others. The…

Edhessa

(Encyclopedia) Edhessa Edhessa ĕdˈĕsä [key] or Vodena Edhessa…

Candace

(Encyclopedia) CandaceCandacekănˈdəsē, kăndāˈsē [key], title for queens in ancient Cush (Kush). The Latinized form of kandake, it was mistakenly treated in some sources as a name. One of them made…

Caesarea Philippi

(Encyclopedia) Caesarea PhilippiCaesarea Philippisĕsərēˈə [key]Caesarea Philippifĭlĭpˈī [key], city, N ancient Palestine, at the foot of Mt. Hermon. It was built by Philip the Tetrarch in the 1st…

Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck

(Encyclopedia) Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck, 1899–1980, American physicist, b. Middletown, Conn., Ph.D. Harvard, 1922. As a professor at Harvard, Van Vleck developed fundamental theories on the quantum…

Swansea, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) SwanseaSwanseaswŏnˈzē [key], town (1990 est. pop. 15,500), Bristol co., SE Mass., a suburb of Fall River, on an inlet of Mount Hope Bay; founded 1667, inc. 1785. Once a vast farmland,…