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Gardena

(Encyclopedia)Gardena gärdēˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 61,027), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., an industrial ...

Asherah

(Encyclopedia)Asherah -rŏth [key], Canaanite fertility goddess and the wooden cult symbol that represented her. She is the consort of El in the Ugaritic texts. Several passages in the Bible may refer to the planti...

Mayno, Juan Bautista

(Encyclopedia)Mayno or Maino, Juan Bautista hwän boutēsˈtä mīˈnō [key], 1578–1649, Spanish painter. He entered the Dominican order in Toledo, where he is thought to have studied with El Greco. He was drawi...

Burleigh, Henry Thacker

(Encyclopedia)Burleigh, Henry Thacker bûrˈlē [key], 1866–1949, American baritone and composer, b. Erie, Pa.; pupil of Dvořák at the National Conservatory, New York, where he later taught. He was soloist at S...

commutator

(Encyclopedia)commutator, device used in an electric generator to convert the alternating current produced in the generator into direct current before the current is sent into an external circuit; it is basically a...

Navarrete, Juan Fernández

(Encyclopedia)Navarrete, Juan Fernández hwän fārnänˈdĕth nävärāˈtā [key], 1526–79, Spanish religious painter, called El Mudo [the mute]. He studied in a monastery and later in Italy, perhaps with Titia...

Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Acislo Antonio

(Encyclopedia)Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Acislo Antonio äthēsˈlō äntōˈnyō pälōmēˈnō ᵺā käˈstrō ē vāläsˈkō [key], 1655–1726, Spanish historical painter and writer on art, called the Span...

Calderón Sol, Armando

(Encyclopedia)Calderón Sol, Armando, 1948–2017, Salvadoran political leader, , b. San Salvador, J.D. Univ. of El Salvador, 1977. A member of the right-wing National Republican Alliance, he held several positions...

Blest Gana, Alberto

(Encyclopedia)Blest Gana, Alberto älbārˈtō blĕst gäˈnä [key], 1830–1920, Chilean novelist. He is considered the principal 19th-century Spanish-American realist. Although as a diplomat he spent much of his...

Bayamo

(Encyclopedia)Bayamo bäyäˈmō [key], city (1995 est. pop. 132,000), Granma prov., SE Cuba. It is a manufacturing and transportation center. Cattle raising and sugar refining are the main industries. Founded in 1...