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(Encyclopedia) Saint Paul, city (1990 pop. 272,235), state capital and seat of Ramsey co., E Minn., on bluffs along the Mississippi River, contiguous with Minneapolis, forming the Twin Cities metropolitan area; inc....

(Encyclopedia) Cadmus, Paul, 1904–99, American painter, b. N.Y.C.; studied National Academy of Design (1919–26), Art Students' League (1928). From 1933–35 he and painter Jared French traveled to Europe, where ...

(Encyclopedia) Koundouritis, Paul: see Kondouriotis, Paul. ...

(Encyclopedia) Sandby, Paul săndˈbē [key], 1725–1809, English watercolorist and draftsman. He was employed to survey the Highlands of Scotland after the 1745 rebellion. During his years in Scotland (1746–51) ...

(Encyclopedia) Antschel, Paul: see Celan, Paul. ...

(Encyclopedia) Paul, Jean: see Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich. ...

(Encyclopedia) Jean Paul: see Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich. ...

(Encyclopedia) Langevin, Paul läNzhəvăNˈ [key], 1872–1946, French physicist and chemist. He was professor of experimental physics at the Collège de France from 1909 and at the École municipale de Physique e...

(Encyclopedia) Lumbee, descendants of Native Americans whose language belonged to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The ancestors of the Lumbee occupi...

(Encyclopedia) Claudel, Paul klōdĕlˈ [key], 1868–1955, French dramatist, poet, and diplomat. He was ambassador to Tokyo (1921–27), Washington, D.C. (1927–33), and Brussels (1933–35). Claudel's writings d...