LADISLAS URBANSKI
\lˈadɪsləz ɜːbˈanskɪ], \lˈadɪsləz ɜːbˈanskɪ], \l_ˈa_d_ɪ_s_l_ə_z ɜː_b_ˈa_n_s_k_ɪ]\
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A Polish dramatist and miscellaneous writer; born in Lithuania, 1796; died at Warsaw, 1857. Among his more noteworthy writings are: "The Sorcerers", a poem (1831); "Paradoxes against Liberty" (1833); "Venice Saved", a tragedy (1834); "Poland, Historical, Poetical, and Literary" (1836); "Sketch of the Manners of Country People" (1841); "Russia from the Point of View of European Civilization" (1841).
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).
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