Biography Category
(älb r´t sän´t zh-dümôN´) (KEY) , 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut. The son of a wealthy coffee grower, he was a flamboyant bon vivant and live...
1577–1640, foremost Flemish painter of the 17th cent., b. Siegen, Westphalia, where his family had gone into exile because of his father’s Calvini...
channel, 30 mi (48 km) long and 10 mi (16.1 km) wide, between Singapore island and the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia. It links the Strait of Malacca wit...
1886–1934, son of Robert, last duke of Parma. While serving as an officer in the Belgian army, he was the intermediary for his brother-in-law, Emper...
1792?–1860, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada (1821–56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company to Canada, ...
(s nd) (KEY) , province (1998 pop. 29,991,161), c.50,000 sq mi (129,500 sq km), SE Pakistan, roughly coextensive with the lower Indus River valley and...