(Encyclopedia) ViriatusViriatusvērēäˈtəs [key], d. 139 b.c., leader of the Lusitani (see Lusitania). One of the survivors of the massacre of the Lusitani by the Roman praetor Servius Sulpicius Galba…
(Encyclopedia) Claude LorrainClaude Lorrainklōd lôrăNˈ [key], whose original name was Claude Gelée or GelléeClaude Lorrainzhəlāˈ [key], 1600–1682, French painter, b. Lorraine. Claude was the foremost…
(Encyclopedia) Italic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that…
(Encyclopedia) Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueIngres, Jean Auguste DominiquezhäN ōgüstˈ dômēnēkˈ ăNˈgrə [key], 1780–1867, French painter, b. Montauban; son of a sculptor. He studied with J. L. David…
(Encyclopedia) Scarlatti, AlessandroScarlatti, Alessandroälĕs-sänˈdrō skärlätˈtē [key], 1660–1725, Italian composer. He may have studied with Carissimi in Rome, where his first opera was produced in…
(Encyclopedia) Gingrich, Newt (Newton Leroy Gingrich)Gingrich, Newtgĭngˈgrĭch [key], 1943–, U.S. congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995–98), b. Harrisburg, Pa., as Newton…
(Encyclopedia) Bonds, Barry Lamar, 1964–, American baseball player, b. Riverside, Calif. Bonds grew up surrounded by baseball; his father, Bobby Bonds, was a San Francisco Giants outfielder (1968–74…
(Encyclopedia) AllobrogesAllobrogesəlŏˈbrəjēz [key], Celtic tribe in Gaul, inhabiting later Dauphiné and Savoy. They were conquered (121 b.c.) by Quintus Fabius Maximus, who was called Allobrogicus…
(Encyclopedia) AmpliasAmpliasămpˈlēəs [key] or AmpliatusAmpliatusămplēāˈtəs [key], Christian in Rome to whom Paul sent greetings in his Letter to the Romans.
