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(v l´h lm f lkh´n r) (KEY) , 1877–1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer. He led several expeditions to China and Tibet, where he ...
(t ´b r) (KEY) , Ital. Tevere, Latin Tiberis, river, 251 mi (404 km) long, rising in the Etruscan Apennines, central Italy. It flows generally S acro...
(y ´hän än´d rs n´´) (KEY) , 1827–67, Swedish explorer in Africa. In 1850 he and Francis Galton set out from Walvis Bay (now in Namibia) to ex...
(m n) (KEY) , 1796–1859, American educator, b. Franklin, Mass. He received a sparse preliminary schooling, but succeeded in entering Brown in the so...
(y hän´ l t´v kh b rk´härt) (KEY) , 1784–1817, European explorer, b. Switzerland, educated in Germany. Supported by an English association for ...
1915–, American economist, b. Gary, Ind., grad. Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1935), Harvard (M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1941). Appointed a professor of economics...