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(y hä´n s g ´ôrk hä´g n) (KEY) , 1847–1930, American astronomer and mathematician, b. Austria. A Jesuit, he came in 1880 to the United States ...
( ntô´ny zh z ´ dä s l´v ) (KEY) , 1705–39, Portuguese playwright, b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He belonged to a family of “New Christians” ...
town (1991 pop. 42,611), Lancashire, NW England. Skelmersdale was designated one of the new towns in 1961 to alleviate overpopulation in Liverpool and...
(g ´ôrk z m´ l) (KEY) , 1858–1918, German philosopher and sociologist. At the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg he was an influential lecture...
c.1719–1806, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Ireland. He settled in Pennsylvania in his y...
( l s´s äldr vän´d ) (KEY) , 1522–1605, Italian naturalist, professor at the Univ. of Bologna. He instigated the establishment (1567) of the Bo...