Biography Category
( l rôs´s ) (KEY) , 1495–1540, Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism, b. Florence. His real name was Giovan Battista di Iacopo di Gasp...
(s m´ l ) (KEY) [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns’s poem...
(ämä´l skräm) (KEY) , 1846–1905, Norwegian writer. In Denmark, where she lived most of her life, Skram wrote Constance Ring (1885, tr. 1988), ...
(hûr´sh l) (KEY) , family of distinguished English astronomers.
Sir William Herschel
Sir William Herschel, 1738–1822, born Friedrich Wilhelm He...
( ndr ´ ny k l ´ v ch t p ´l f) (KEY) , 1888–1972, Soviet aeronautical engineer, educated at the Moscow Technical Institute. In 1918 he helped or...
(sl ´k m) (KEY) , b. 1826 or 1827, d. 1894, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Delphi, Onondaga co., N.Y. A West Point graduate, he resigned...