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Pachuca de Soto
(Encyclopedia)Pachuca de Soto pächo͞oˈkä ᵺā sōˈtō [key], city (1990 pop. 174,013), capital of Hidalgo state, central Mexico, at the head of a ravine surrounded by foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental. P...Jouvenel, Henry de
(Encyclopedia)Jouvenel, Henry de äNrēˈ də zho͞ovənĕlˈ [key], 1876–1935, French statesman and journalist. Although from an early age influential in politics, he refused to join a party, claiming that exist...Siger de Brabant
(Encyclopedia)Siger de Brabant sēzhāˈ də bräbäNˈ [key], fl. 1260–77, French theologian, head of the movement known as Latin Averroism. At the Univ. of Paris he taught that the individual soul had no immort...Charles IX, king of Sweden
(Encyclopedia)Charles IX, 1550–1611, king of Sweden (1604–11), youngest son of Gustavus I. He was duke of Södermanland, Närke, and Värmland before his accession. During the reign of his brother, John III (15...Luteri, Giovanni de
(Encyclopedia)Luteri, Giovanni de: see Dosso Dossi. ...Mabuse, Jan de
(Encyclopedia)Mabuse, Jan de: see Gossart, Jan. ...Medici, Giulio de'
(Encyclopedia)Medici, Giulio de': see Clement VII. ...Lautréamont, Comte de
(Encyclopedia)Lautréamont, Comte de: see Ducasse, Isidore. ...Saumaise, Claude de
(Encyclopedia)Saumaise, Claude de: see Salmasius, Claudius. ...Río de Oro
(Encyclopedia)Río de Oro: see Western Sahara. ...Browse by Subject
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