Biography Category
(s s´ f s) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, son of Aeolus and founder and king of Corinth. Renowned for his cunning, he was said to have outwitted even De...
(hwän d lä thy r´vä) (KEY) , 1895–1936, Spanish aeronautical engineer, inventor of a rotary-wing aircraft called an autogiro. He flew his first...
(n kô´lä p zä´n ) (KEY) , b. c.1220, d. between 1278 and 1287, major Italian sculptor, believed to have come from Apulia. He founded a new school...
(shtr ´v ) (KEY) , family of astronomers. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, 1793–1864, was born in Germany but later lived in Russia. While direc...
(s s´ r ) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Canaanite captain, defeated by Deborah and Barak and murdered by Jael. 2 Family in the return to Palestine....
common name for a small, slender fish of the family Osmeridae, closely allied to the grayling of the family Salmonidae (salmon family). Most species a...