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(brôn ´sl v ny zh n´sk ) (KEY) , 1891–1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She studied at the Imperial Ball...
(ch p´ nd l´´) (KEY) , 1718–79, celebrated English cabinetmaker. His designs were so widely followed that a whole general category of 18th-centur...
1874–1956, American industrialist and philanthropist, b. Campbell, N.Y. After rising from clerk to sales executive in the National Cash Register Co....
1832–1919, English chemist and physicist. After serving at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, and teaching chemistry at Chester Training College, he...
1839–97, American economist, founder of the single tax movement, b. Philadelphia. Of a poor family, his formal education was cut short at 14, and in...
(y s´t s bärôn´ f n l ´b kh) (KEY) , 1803–73, German chemist. As professor at Giessen (1824–52), he was among the first to establish a chemic...