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Noh drama

(Encyclopedia)Noh drama: see Asian drama.

Ambrosian Library

(Encyclopedia)Ambrosian Library, Milan, Italy; founded c.1605 by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo. Named for Milan's patron saint, it was one of the first libraries to be open to the public. Its earliest collection was a...

ASEAN

(Encyclopedia)ASEAN: see Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ...

Siamese art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Siamese art and architecture: see Southeast Asian art and architecture. ...

Japanese art

(Encyclopedia)Japanese art, works of art created in the islands that make up the nation of Japan. In the mid-19th cent. a few print designers attained distinction, but no masters appeared to equal their p...

Malay Archipelago

(Encyclopedia)Malay Archipelago, great island group of SE Asia, formerly called the East Indies. Lying between the Asian mainland and Australia, and separating the Pacific Ocean from the Indian Ocean, it includes B...

Lud

(Encyclopedia)Lud, in the Bible, eponym of an Asian people, probably the Lydians. There is probably textual confusion at some points with the Lubim. ...

Arizona State University

(Encyclopedia)Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted i...

Brock University

(Encyclopedia)Brock University, at St. Catharines, Ont., Canada; coeducational; founded 1964. It has faculties of humanities, social science, science and mathematics, education, business, and physical education and...

kabuki

(Encyclopedia)kabuki käbo͞oˈkē [key]: see Asian drama. ...