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(m k´ lj n) (KEY) , 1872–1964, American educator, b. Rochdale, England, grad. Brown Univ., 1893, Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1897. He taught philosophy at...
( l ´z r hw ´l k) (KEY) , 1711–79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth College, b. Windham, Conn., grad. Yale, 1733. He became (1735) the pa...
(shûr´m n) (KEY) , 1854–1942, American educator and diplomat, b. Freetown, Prince Edward Island. His education was completed in London, Edinburgh,...
(v ´sk d g ´m , Port. väsh´k dä gä´m ) (KEY) , c.1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, the first European to journey by sea to India. His epoch...
(v s ´ly m kh ´l v ch g l vny n´) (KEY) , 1776–1831, Russian explorer and writer. Sent in 1807 to make a geographical survey of Kamchatka and th...
(h n´r kh bärt) (KEY) , 1821–65, German explorer in British service. After traveling (1845–47) through the Levant and N Africa, he entered the s...