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(Encyclopedia)Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. ...Santa Isabel
(Encyclopedia)Santa Isabel: see Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. ...Santa Maura
(Encyclopedia)Santa Maura, Greece: see Lefkás.Santa Sophia
(Encyclopedia)Santa Sophia: see Hagia Sophia.Santa Tecla
(Encyclopedia)Santa Tecla: see Nueva San Salvador, El Salvador. ...Sophia, Santa
(Encyclopedia)Sophia, Santa: see Hagia Sophia. ...Abell, Kjeld
(Encyclopedia)Abell, Kjeld kyĕl äˈbĕl [key], 1901–61, Danish playwright. Abell's Melody That Got Lost (1935, tr. 1939) was an early success. Trained as a stage designer, he was an innovator in stage technique...Spencer, Anna Garlin
(Encyclopedia)Spencer, Anna Garlin, 1851–1931, American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister, b. Attleboro, Mass. She married the Rev. William H. Spencer in 1878. She was a leader in the woman-suffrage and ...King Ranch
(Encyclopedia)King Ranch, c.1,000,000 acres (404,700 hectares), S Tex., SW of Corpus Christi with headquarters at Kingsville, Tex.; one of the largest ranches in the world. It has several divisions, of which the be...Bononcini
(Encyclopedia)Bononcini bwō– [key], musical family of Modena, Italy. Giovanni Maria Bononcini, 1642–78, choirmaster and organist at Bologna and Modena, was a composer and the author of Musico prattico (1673). ...Browse by Subject
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