Biography Category
(äm d ´ zäNfäN´) (KEY) , 1886–1966, French art theorist and painter. He criticized the cubists after 1912 for creating a merely decorative art...
1806–70, American novelist, b. Charleston, S.C. He wrote prolifically, both prose and poetry, but it is for his historical romances about his own st...
(n r d m´ s h n k´) (KEY) , 1922–, king of Cambodia (1941–55, 1993–2004). Sihanouk was educated in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Paris and...
(s g´ b rt) (KEY) , d. 575, Frankish king of Austrasia (561–75), son of Clotaire I. He constantly feuded with his brother Chilperic I, who had inhe...
1627–1705, English naturalist. He was extremely influential in laying the foundations of systematic biology. With his pupil Francis Willughby, he pl...
(sk j´ t) (KEY) , river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Cascade Range, British Columbia, and flowing SW through Wash. into Puget Sound. Gorge ...