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1744–1817, Anglo-Irish educational theorist, b. Bath, England, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford; father of Maria Edgeworth. A memb...
(l v´ ngst n, –st n´´) (KEY) , 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa, the first European to cross the African continent. From 184...
1795–1852, English sea captain and antarctic explorer. In 1820, Bransfield sailed from Chile to the South Shetland Islands off the N Antarctic Penin...
(ärt m´´ dôr´ s, f´ s s) (KEY) , fl. 103 B.C., Greek geographer quoted by Strabo. He wrote 11 books on his Mediterranean travels. Only fragment...
(tyär ´) (KEY) , city (1998 pop. 145,332), NW Algeria, capital of Tiaret prov. Since Roman times it has been the center of a prosperous agricultural...
1873–1961, American inventor, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1896. He was a pioneer in the development of wireless telegraphy, sound pictures,...