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front
In meteorology, the interface or transition zone between two air masses of different density and temperature. Frontal zones are frequently accompanied by low barometric pressure, marked changes in wind direction and relative humidity, and considerable cloudiness and precipitation.
Bronzino
Italian painter active in Florence. He was the student and adopted son of J. Pontormo. His work lacked the emotional intensity characteristic of contemporary religious painting, but he excelled as a portraitist and was court painter to Cosimo I de' Medici for most of his career. His portraits were emotionally inexpressive, but in their elegance and decorative qualities they embodied the courtly ideal under the Medici dukes. His work influenced European court portraiture for the next century, while his polished, sophisticated religious and mythological paintings epitomized the Mannerist style of his time. In 1563 he became a founding member of the Accademia del Disegno.
Croatia
Country, W central Balkans. Area: 21,829 sq mi (56,538 sq km). Population (1997): 4,774,000. Capital: Zagreb. The people are mainly Croats, with a large Serb minority. Language: Croatian (official). Religions: Roman Catholicism (Croats), Serbian Orthodoxy (Serbs). Currency: kuna. Croatia includes the traditional regions of Dalmatia, Istria, and Croatia-Slavonia. Istria and Dalmatia, in the southwest, cover the rugged Adriatic coast. The northwest, known as the central mountain belt, contains part of the Dinaric Alps. The northeast is a fertile agricultural area; cattle breeding is also important. The central mountain belt is known for fruit, and the farms of Istria and Dalmatia produce grapes and olives. The most important industries are food processing, winemaking, textiles, chemicals, and petroleum and natural gas. It is a republic with a two-chambered legislature, its head of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister. The Croats, a S Slavic people, arrived in the 7th cent. AD, and in the 8th cent. came under Charlemagne. They converted to Christianity soon afterward and formed a kingdom in the 10th cent. Coming under Hungarian control in the 11th cent., it remained an independent kingdom, while the union lasted some eight centuries. Most of Croatia was taken by the Turks in 1526; the rest voted to accept Austrian rule. In 1867 it became part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with Dalmatia and Istria ruled by Vienna and Croatia-Slavonia a Hungarian crown land. In 1918, after the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, it joined other south Slav territories to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, renamed Yugoslavia in 1929. In World War II, an independent state of Croatia was established by Germany and Italy, embracing Croatia-Slavonia, part of Dalmatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; after the war Croatia was rejoined to Yugoslavia as a people's republic. It declared its independence ...
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