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(Encyclopedia) curry [Malayalam], condiment much used in India and elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East, in combination with rice, meat, and a variety of other dishes. It is compounded of such…Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe
(Encyclopedia) Curry, Jabez Lamar MonroeCurry, Jabez Lamar Monroejāˈbĕz [key], 1825–1903, American educator, b. Lincoln co., Ga., grad. Univ. of Georgia, 1843. He studied law at Harvard and later…Curry, John Steuart
(Encyclopedia) Curry, John Steuart, 1897–1946, American painter, b. Dunavant, Jefferson co., Kans. He spent his youth on his father's farm. In 1916 he entered the Kansas City Art Institute and later…Milton
(Encyclopedia) Milton, town (1990 pop. 25,725), Norfolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on the Neponset River; settled 1636, set off from Dorchester and inc. 1662. Granite quarries are…Adam, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Adam, RobertAdam, Robertădˈəm [key], 1728–92, and James Adam, 1730–94, Scottish architects, brothers. They designed important public and private buildings in England and Scotland and…Adam, James
(Encyclopedia) Adam, James: see Adam, Robert.Adam de la Halle
(Encyclopedia) Adam de la HalleAdam de la HalleädäNˈ də lä äl [key] or Adam le BossuAdam le Bossulə bōsüˈ [key], c.1240–1287, French dramatist and poet-musician, one of the great trouvères. Many of…Eve, in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) Eve [Heb.,=life], in the Bible, the first woman, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth. Fashioned from Adam's rib, she was beguiled by the serpent into eating the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Adam Armour's Prayer
by Robert Burns Epitaph For James SmithThe Jolly Beggars: A CantataAdam Armour's Prayer Gude pity me, because I'm little! For though I am an elf o' mettle, An' can, like…Bartsch, Adam von
(Encyclopedia) Bartsch, Adam von (Johann Adam Bernhard von Bartsch)Bartsch, Adam vonäˈdäm fən bärch [key], 1757–1821, Austrian engraver, etcher, and writer. His critical catalog, Le Peintre Graveur (…