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(p ´bäd , –b d ) (KEY) , 1804–94, American educator, lecturer, and reformer, b. Billerica, Mass. The Peabody family moved (c.1809) to Salem, whe...
(d m´p r) (KEY) , 1651–1715, English explorer, buccaneer, hydrographer, and naturalist. He fought (1673) in the Dutch War, managed a plantation in ...
1811–92, American educator and philosopher, b. Farmington, Conn., grad. Yale, 1831. He entered the ministry in 1836. In 1846 he became professor of ...
(g shpär´ kôr´t r äl´) (KEY) , c.1450–1501?, Portuguese explorer. Sent by King Manuel I to search for the Northwest Passage, he is said to ha...
1903–83, British economist, b. Surrey, England. A socialist, she worked with Keynes and taught at Cambridge Univ. (1931–71). Her treatise, The Eco...
(w n´d l) (KEY) , 1855–1921, American teacher and scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1877. He taught at Harvard (1880–1917) and lectured at Cambr...