Biography Category
(t m ´m wä´k rä) (KEY) , 1825–83, Japanese statesman. A court noble, he supported the Meiji restoration and became a minister of state (1871â€...
( vr ´-sür-s n) (KEY) , industrial and commercial suburb SE of Paris (1990 pop. 54,106), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France. Connected to Paris by...
(yäk pô´n dä tô´d ) (KEY) , 1230?–1306, Italian religious poet, whose name was originally Jacopo Benedetti. After the sudden death of his wif...
( ´w ) (KEY) , city (1991 est. pop. 320,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for a farm region specializing in cacao. A coffee plantation is loca...
1767–1845, 7th President of the United States (1829–37), b. Waxhaw settlement on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina (both states clai...
c.1568–1623, London printer and publisher. Although it seems that he had previously pirated some of Shakespeare’s works, he was chosen by the edit...