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111Michael Leavitt (artist) — Mike Leavitt (a.k.a. ArtCardMike, Mikey Blue) Leavitt at work on 1998 Epiphany installation Birth name Michael Gipson Leavitt Born …
112Zveno (Soviet collective farming) — The zveno (meaning link ; Cyrillic Звено; plural zvenya ) was a small grassroots work group within Soviet collective farms. It was, or became, a subunit within the collective farm brigade.Evolution during the 1930sFrom the earliest times,… …
113Ireland — Irelander, n. /uyeur leuhnd/, n. 1. John, 1838 1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888 1918. 2. Also called Emerald Isle. Latin, Hibernia. a large western island of the British …
114Scotland — /skot leuhnd/, n. a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 5,205,000; 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Cap.: Edinburgh. * * * I Northernmost country of the United Kingdom. Area: 30,421 sq mi (78,789 sq km). Population… …
115Sikhism — /see kiz euhm/, n. the religion and practices of the Sikhs. [SIKH + ISM] * * * Indian monotheistic religion founded in the late 15th century by Guru Nanak. Most of its 18 million members, called Sikhs, live in the Punjab, the site of their… …
116steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
117Beethoven, Ludwig van — (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to… …
118Cézanne, Paul — born Jan. 19, 1839, Aix en Provence, France died Oct. 22, 1906, Aix en Provence French painter, one of the founders of modern painting. In 1859 he entered law school; in 1861 he left to study art in Paris. Critics denounced the works he exhibited …
119Weber, Max — born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia died June 14, 1920, Munich, Ger. German sociologist and political economist. Son of a wealthy liberal politician and a Calvinist mother, Weber was a compulsively diligent scholar who suffered occasional… …
120building construction — Techniques and industry involved in the assembly and erection of structures. Early humans built primarily for shelter, using simple methods. Building materials came from the land, and fabrication was dictated by the limits of the materials and… …
