Biography Category
( ´l k l´b rts n) (KEY) , 1891–1955, American authority on contract bridge, b. Romania. His father was an American engineer then living in Romani...
fl. 10th cent., Norse chieftain, discoverer and colonizer of Greenland. He left (c.950) Norway with his exiled father and settled in Iceland. A feud r...
(m k´ lj n) (KEY) , 1872–1964, American educator, b. Rochdale, England, grad. Brown Univ., 1893, Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1897. He taught philosophy at...
( l ´z r hw ´l k) (KEY) , 1711–79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth College, b. Windham, Conn., grad. Yale, 1733. He became (1735) the pa...
( v s N lôräN´) (KEY) , 1936–, French fashion designer, b. Algeria as Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. He established houses of couture an...
(shûr´m n) (KEY) , 1854–1942, American educator and diplomat, b. Freetown, Prince Edward Island. His education was completed in London, Edinburgh,...