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1763–1844, American architect, b. Boston. A member of the Boston board of selectmen in 1791, he was chosen chairman in 1799—an office equivalent t...
(häm d´ kär´z ) (KEY) , 1957–, Afghan political leader, president of Afghanistan (2002–), b. Kandahar. Karzai’s father and grandfather, who ...
(f n´n r mäg´n sôn) (KEY) , 1781–1847, Icelandic archaeologist and scholar. Educated at the Univ. of Copenhagen, he was appointed (1815) profess...
(l v ´-brül) (KEY) , 1857–1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Re...
(kl ck´h n) (KEY) , 1905–60, American anthropologist, b. LeMars, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1928, M.A. Oxford, 1932, Ph.D. Harvard, 1936. He t...
(f ´lär ´t ) (KEY) , c.1400–c.1465, Italian architect and sculptor, whose real name was Antonio Averlino, b. Florence. In the 1430s he went to Ro...