Biography Category
(h p d´ m s) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek architect, b. Miletus. He was the first to plan cities according to geometric layouts. For Pericles he...
1904–78, British archaeologist, educated at Oxford. He participated in the British Museum–Univ. of Pennsylvania excavations at Ur (1925–30) and ...
(b z´ t, l ´k ) (KEY) , 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b. Kabete, Kenya; father of Richard Leakey. His fossil disc...
Kassala (both: käsä´lä, k s´ lä) (KEY) , city (1993 pop. 234,622), NE Sudan. It is a market center and rail transport hub and has extensive frui...
or Cassai, river, c.1,100 mi (1,800 km) long, rising in central Angola, S central Africa, flowing E, N, and NW through W Congo (Kinshasa) to the Congo...
(dôm ´n k s böm) (KEY) , 1880–1955, German architect. The widely varied styles of Catholic churches designed by Böhm have strongly influenced 20...