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John Alexander Reina Newlands
John Alexander Reina Newlands 1838-98, British chemist. He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry in London and worked as an industrial chemist. Newlands prepared the first periodic table of elements arranged in the order of atomic weights and pointed out the "Law of Octaves," i.e., that... Read more |
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Delmar
Delmar ♀ Mainly U.S.: of uncertain derivation, possibly from Spanish del mar ‘of the sea’, which occurs in various place names as a distinguishing epithet and also in the Marian title Reina del Mar ‘Queen of the Sea’. It may alternatively have originated as an... Read more |
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Antonio Palomino
Palomino, Antonio (bapt. Bujalance, nr. Córdoba, 1 Dec. 1655; d Madrid, 12 Aug. 1726). Spanish painter and writer on art, active mainly in Madrid, where in 1688 Charles II (see Habsburg) appointed him one of his court painters. He was famous in his day for frescos in churches in Madrid and... Read more |
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Gregorio Fernandez
Fernández, Gregorio (or Gregorio Hernández) (b Sarria, Galicia, c.1576; d Valladolid, 22 Jan. 1636). Spanish sculptor, active for all his known career in Valladolid, where he is first recorded in 1605. He was one of the great masters of the polychrome wooden statue, continuing the... Read more |
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Caracas
Caracas , city (1990 pop. 1,824,892), Federal Dist., N Venezuela, the capital and largest city of the country, near the Caribbean Sea. Its port is La Guaira . With an elevation of c.3,100 ft (945 m), Caracas has a pleasant climate, which contributed to making it rather than Valencia the economic... Read more |
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Nuno Goncalves
Gonçalves, Nuno (active 1450–71). Portuguese painter, first recorded in 1450, when he was appointed court painter by Alfonso V. No works certainly by his hand survive, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that he was responsible for the St Vincent polyptych (c.1460–70,... Read more |
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Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile
Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile Huerfanos 1270Casila Postal 150-DSantiagoChileTelephone: (562) 690-3000Fax: (562) 690-3059Web site: http://www.codelcochile.com Government-Owned CompanyIncorporated: 1976Employees: 17,313Sales: $2.89 billion (1999)NAIC: 212234 Copper Ore & Nickel... Read more |
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Front de Liberation nationale
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Francisco de Zurbaran
Zurbarán, Francisco de (bapt. Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura, 7 Nov. 1598; d Madrid, 27 Aug. 1664). Spanish painter, active mainly in Seville, which lies about 100 km (60 miles) to the south of the village where he was born. He trained in Seville, 1614–17, then spent the next decade... Read more |
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