Biography Category
or Pheidias (both: f d´ s) (KEY) , c.500–c.432 B.C., Greek sculptor, one of the greatest sculptors of ancient Greece. No original in existence can...
( güst N´ päzh ´) (KEY) , 1730–1809, French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome at the age of 18 and began a long career of royal commissions. He ...
(Marvin Neil Simon), 1927–, American playwright, b. New York City. His plays, nearly all of them popular, if not always critical successes, are come...
(sy ´rä m r ´nä) (KEY) , mountain range, SW Spain, extending c.375 mi (600 km) eastward along the southern edge of the Meseta (central plateau) fr...
(yô´z f väts´läf slä´d k) (KEY) , 1845–1912, Czech poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1868 to 1870. Sládek later taught...
(s r k´ ) (KEY) [Ital., from Arab. sharq=east], hot, dust-laden, dry, southerly wind originating in the N African desert (most commonly in the sprin...