Aborigines

ABORIGINES, earliest known inhabitants of a country. The term is generally applied to the original or native ...

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Abortion

ABORTION, termination of pregnancy and expulsion and death of the FETUS, (q.v.), generally be...

ABRABANEL, Isaac (1437-1508), Jewish statesman, philosopher, and theologian, born in Lisbon. He was a favorit...

ABRABANEL, Judah León, also called Leo Hebreus (c. 1460-c. 1523), Jewish physician and philosopher, son of Is...

ABRAHAM IBN DAUD or ABRAHAM BEN DAVID (1110?-80?), historian and philosopher, born in Toledo, Spain. He w...

ABRAHAM or ABRAM, biblical patriarch, according to the Book of Genesis (see 11:27-25:10), progenitor of t...

ABRAHAMS, Peter (1919- ), South African-born novelist and journalist. His first novel, Mine Boy (1946), de...

ABRASIVE, substance employed in grinding or polishing an object by scraping or abrading its surface. Abrasive...

ABRIKOSOV, Alexei Alexeevich (1928- ), Russian-born American physicist and Nobel laureate. Born on June 25...

ABRUZZI, region, S central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, comprising four provinces named after ...