Biography Category
(äb ´ hän ´fä) (KEY) , 699–767, Muslim jurist. He founded the Hanafite system of Islamic jurisprudence, which gives the judge considerable disc...
( b´s l m) (KEY) , in the Bible, son of David. He murdered his half-brother Amnon for the rape of their sister Tamar, and fled. No sooner was he reco...
( dâr´) (KEY) , 1757–1840, American pioneer in Kentucky, b. North Carolina. He went into the Kentucky country in 1786 and became famous as an Indi...
(yä´k p bäs-sä´n ) (KEY) , c.1515–1592, Venetian painter, whose original name was Jacopo, or Giacomo, da Ponte, b. Bassano, Italy. Bassano fir...
( kt ´ n) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë. Because he saw Artemis bathing naked, she changed him into a stag, and his own d...
( k l´ z) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, foremost Greek hero of the Trojan War, son of Peleus and Thetis. He was a formidable warrior, possessing fierce...