Biography Category
(sk ´n ) (KEY) , river, c.360 mi (580 km) long, rising in the Stikine Mts., W British Columbia, Canada, and flowing S and SW to the Pacific Ocean nea...
( mänü l´ zhôz f´ sy s´) (KEY) , 1748–1836, French revolutionary and statesman. He was a clergyman before the Revolution and was known as Abb...
(snôr´r stür´lüsôn, –l sôn) (KEY) , 1178–1241, Icelandic chieftain, historian, critic, and saga teller, the leading figure in medieval Nor...
( rnän´ s ´l s swä´s ) (KEY) , 1914–96, president of Bolivia (1956–60, 1982–85). The illegitimate son of Hernando Siles Reyes (president of...
(nôrth´k t) (KEY) , 1746–1831, English historical and portrait painter. He worked as assistant to Reynolds and studied at the Royal Academy. From ...
(f l p´) (KEY) , 1850–1917, Canadian sculptor, b. Halifax, N.S. He studied in Italy (1869–71) and in Paris, and after 1902 he became the most not...