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1804–84, Italian ballerina, b. Stockholm. Taglioni is considered the first and foremost ballerina of the romantic period. She made her debut in Vien...
1722–91, American Revolutionary printer and patriot; grandson of William Bradford (1663–1752). He learned printing from his uncle, Andrew Bradford...
(stän slä´ kän-n t-tsä´r ) (KEY) , 1826–1910, Italian chemist. From 1861 he was professor at Palermo and from 1871 at Rome, where he was also...
1689–1759, English bibliographer. He compiled Typographical Antiquities (1749), a valuable list of English books printed before 1600....
1749–1831, American patriot and printer, from Worcester, Mass. Thomas printed outspoken Whig editorials in the Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper that h...
1829–92, American financier and sportsman, b. New York City. The son of William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875), he was a retiring man, notable princi...