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Pleiku

(Encyclopedia) Pleiku or Play KuPlay Kuboth: plāk&oomacr;ˈ [key], town, central Vietnam. A highway junction for roads going east (to Quy Nhon), west (to Cambodia), north (to Da Nang), and south (…

Fabriano

(Encyclopedia) Fabriano Fabriano fäbrēäˈnō [key], town, in the Marche, central Italy, in the Apennines. It is an…

Bassano, Jacopo

(Encyclopedia) Bassano, JacopoBassano, Jacopoyäˈkōpō bäs-säˈnō [key], c.1515–1592, Venetian painter, whose original name was Jacopo, or Giacomo, da Ponte, b. Bassano, Italy. Bassano first studied…

De Predis, Ambrogio

(Encyclopedia) De Predis, AmbrogioDe Predis, Ambrogioämbrōˈjō dā prāˈdēs [key] c.1455–c.1506, Milanese painter. He worked under Leonardo da Vinci and copied many of his paintings. He also executed…

Brewer's: Ernani

The bandit-captain, Duke of Segorbia and Cardona, Lord of Aragon, and Count of Ernani, in love with Elvira, who is betrothed to Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, an old Spanish grandee, whom she…

Inhambane

(Encyclopedia) Inhambane Inhambane ĭnˌyəmbănˈə [key], city, SE Mozambique, on Inhambane Bay, an inlet of Mozambique…

Dong Nai

(Encyclopedia) Dong Nai or DonnaiDong Naiboth: dôngˈnīˈ [key], river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising as the Da Dung in the mountains of S central Vietnam. It flows SW past Bien Hoa and joins with the…

silverpoint

(Encyclopedia) silverpoint, method of drawing whereby a silver-tipped instrument is dragged across paper prepared with ground bone dust and gum water and then tinted with a pigment. The procedure…