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Balance, The

(Encyclopedia) Balance, The, English name for Libra, a constellation; also called The Scales.

Owl and the Nightingale, The

(Encyclopedia) Owl and the Nightingale, The, Middle English poem written probably by Nicholas de Guildford of Dorsetshire about the beginning of the 13th cent. Written in 2,000 lines of octosyllabic…

(Encyclopedia) Hsia KueiHsia Kueishyä gwā [key], c.1180–1230, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty. Little is known of his life. He and his contemporary Ma Yüan were regarded as the greatest landscape…

Rand, the

(Encyclopedia) Rand, the: see Witwatersrand.

Rockies, the

(Encyclopedia) Rockies, the: see Rocky Mountains.

Skaw, the

(Encyclopedia) Skaw, the, Denmark: see Skagen.

pill, the

(Encyclopedia) pill, the: see birth control.

Lusiads, The

(Encyclopedia) Lusiads, The: see Camões, Luís de.

Law, the

(Encyclopedia) Law, the, in Judaism: see Torah.

Naze, the

(Encyclopedia) Naze, the, cape: see Lindesnes, Norway.