Biography Category
(y ´hän h n´r kh r s) (KEY) , 1631–85, German painter and etcher. He specialized in depicting animals and landscapes and was court painter to Ele...
( rt) (KEY) , 1900–1992, Dutch astronomer. He confirmed (1927) Bertil Lindblad’s theory of the Milky Way galaxy’s rotation. In the 1950s he and ...
(sl th, slôth) (KEY) , arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical fore...
(s s ´n n z m) (KEY) , anti-Trinitarian religious movement organized in Poland in the 16th cent. by Faustus Socinus. Antecedents of the movement wer...
(Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros) (yäs Nt´ r g ´ rôs) (KEY) , 1659–1743, French portrait painter, b. Perpignan. From 1688 he became almost exclusively t...
1941–, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, b. Newark, N.J. A polished and intelligent folk-rock lyricist and performer, he first gained fame...