Biography Category
(jôr´j s j m s´t s pl ´th ) (KEY) , c.1355–1452, Byzantine scholar and philosopher, b. Constantinople. He represented the Orthodox Eastern Churc...
(kärn ´ d z) (KEY) , 213–129 B.C., Greek philosopher, b. Cyrene. He studied at Athens under Diogenes the Stoic, but reacted against Stoicism and j...
(William Christopher Handy), 1873–1958, American songwriter and band leader, b. Florence, Ala. Largely self-taught, Handy began his career as a corn...
(g l´dw n) (KEY) , 1882–1974, American film producer, b. Warsaw, Poland. Goldwyn arrived in the United States in 1896, and with Jesse L. Lasky and ...
1925–, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, beg...
(hy m) (KEY) , 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734–37) in France, where he finished his first philo...