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1631–1718, English philosopher. He was bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In his De legibus naturae [on natural laws] (1672) he first propounded the ...
(v l nt ´n ) (KEY) , 1895–1926, American film actor, b. Italy as Rodolfo Guglielmi. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and, after a brief ca...
1885–1977, German Marxist philosopher. He taught at the Univ. of Leipzig (1918–33), drifting toward Marxist thought during the 1920s. He fled the ...
(l t´v kh ändr ´äs foi´ rbäkh) (KEY) , 1804–72, German philosopher, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin; son of Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach...
team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1895–1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1893–1964), called Harpo; Leonard (1891–1961), ...
(b sh ´) (KEY) , 1897–1959, American jazz musician, b. New Orleans, La. He began his professional career with his brother Leonard’s band in 1911....