Biography Category
(m s´k l n) (KEY) , 1732–1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed...
(s l r´ n, s –) (KEY) [from the Silures, ancient tribe of S Wales, where the period was first studied; named by the British geologist R. I. Murch...
name for members of the Lutianidae, a family of spiny-finned food and game fishes found chiefly in tropical coastal waters. Snappers are carnivorous, ...
1893–1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Living variously in Poland and Russ...
(sm ´d r vô) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 63,884), NE Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia, a port on the Danube River. Its industries include oil refining a...
1804–87, American astronomer and maker of astronomical lenses, b. Ashfield, Mass. In 1846 the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons was established at Cambridg...