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1851–1933, American educator and leader in social welfare, founder of the Ethical Culture movement, b. Germany. He was brought to the United States ...
1821–90, English explorer, writer, and linguist. He joined (1842) the service of the East India Company and, while stationed in India, acquired a th...
(Pierre Émile Levasseur) (py r m l´ lüväsör´) (KEY) , 1828–1911, French economist. He was noted especially for his historical approach to the...
(d m ng´g bäth ´ä l bl k´) (KEY) , 1766–1818, Spanish traveler, known as Ali Bey. Posing as a Muslim, he set out from Cádiz (1803) and trave...
1890–1954, American engineer and radio inventor, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (E.E. 1913). He was associated in research with Michael I. Pupin a...
(pou´l fr r´) (KEY) , 1921–97, Brazilian educator. After his exile from Brazil following the military coup in 1964, Freire taught in Chile and wa...