FRANCOIS LENORMANT
\fɹˈanswɑː lˈɛnɔːmənt], \fɹˈanswɑː lˈɛnɔːmənt], \f_ɹ_ˈa_n_s_w_ɑː l_ˈɛ_n_ɔː_m_ə_n_t]\
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A French historian and archaeologist, son of Charles; born at Paris, Jan. 17, 1837; died there, Dec. 10, 1883. He is one of the foremost of French Assyriologists. His works are very numerous. Among them are: "Archaeological Researches at Eleusis" (1862); "Political and Economic Organization of Coinage in Antiquity" (1863); "Ancient History in the East" (3 vols., 1868-69); "Letters on Assyriology" (5 vols., 1871-79); "Akkadian Studies" (3 vols., 1873-79); "The Primitive Language of Chaldea" (1875); "The Beginnings of History according to the Bible" (3 vols., 1880-84).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).