Biography Category
(Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell), 1913–, English radio astronomer, b. Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England, Ph.D. Univ. of Bristol, 1936. He ...
(sûr´m m) (KEY) , ancient city of Pannonia. The site is near modern Sremska Mitrovica, NW Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia. Sirmium was unimportant...
(hwän pänt ´hä th lä kr th) (KEY) , 1553–1608, Spanish portrait painter, court painter to Philip II and Philip III; pupil and follower of Alon...
The snake has been variously adored as a regenerative power, as a god of evil, as a god of good, as Christ (by the Gnostics), as a phallic deity, as a...
1902–84, American paleontologist and zoologist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Yale, 1926. He became assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American...
(n ´k lous k nst nty n´ rör´ kh) (KEY) , 1874–1947, Russian artist, scene designer, and archaeologist. He was connected with the Moscow Art Thea...