Biography Category
( b ´r m) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Levite who died with his brother Dathan. 2 Son of a rebuilder of Jericho, associated obscurely with its foundations...
(s bästyä´n d l pyôm´b ) (KEY) , c.1485–1547, Italian painter of the Venetian school, whose real name was Sebastiano Luciani. Although he was ...
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1822–92, American agricultural editor and publisher, b. near Niagara Falls, N.Y., grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1847. At Wesleyan he built (1871) the Orange...
(y hä´n s sht rm) (KEY) , 1507–89, German scholar and educator. He founded (1537) and directed for more than 40 years the Strasbourg Gymnasium. Hi...
(z p´ l n, Ger. f r´d nänt gräf f n ts p´´ l n´) (KEY) , 1838–1917, German army officer and airship inventor and builder. He entered the Prus...