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Bamboccianti

(Encyclopedia)Bamboccianti: see Laer, Pieter van.

magnetosphere

(Encyclopedia)magnetosphere: see Van Allen radiation belts. ...

Bamboccio, Il

(Encyclopedia)Bamboccio, Il: see Laer, Pieter van. ...

Niccolò di Piero Lamberti

(Encyclopedia)Niccolò di Piero Lamberti nēk-kōlôˈ dē pyāˈrō lämbĕrˈtē [key], c.1370–1451, Italian sculptor and architect of the early Renaissance, sometimes called Niccolò d'Arezzo. He worked mostly...

Beer, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Beer, Thomas, 1889–1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911–13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Mar...

Eshtemoa

(Encyclopedia)Eshtemoa –mōˈ [key] in the Book of Joshua. Ancient ruins mark the site. ...

Paine, Albert Bigelow

(Encyclopedia)Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861–1937, American author, b. New Bedford, Mass. He is best remembered as the author of the authorized biography of Mark Twain (3 vol., 1912) and as the editor of Twain's let...

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