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(p ´r ) (KEY) , 1790–1855, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. He entered the navy at 13 and made his first voyage to the Arctic under Sir Jo...
1821–93, English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861–62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro i...
1899–1985, American educator and public official, b. Abilene, Kans., grad. Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (now Kansas State...
1785–1872, American soldier and educator, b. Braintree, Mass., grad. Dartmouth, 1807, and West Point, 1808. During the War of 1812 he served as an e...
(t s´l ) (KEY) , 1856–1943, American electrician and inventor, b. Croatia (then an Austrian province). He emigrated to the United States in 1884, w...
1914–, American educator and psychologist, b. Panama Canal Zone, grad. Howard (B.A., 1935) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He taught psychology at Howar...