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fl. 1461–98, English explorer, probably b. Genoa, Italy. He became a citizen of Venice in 1476 and engaged in the Eastern trade of that city. This e...
1757–98, English navigator and explorer. He sailed on Capt. James Cook’s second and third voyages. After 1780 he served under Admiral George Rodne...
(s västyän´ v thkä ´n ) (KEY) , c.1550–c.1628, Spanish explorer and merchant. After an unsuccessful attempt to plant a colony in Lower Californ...
1607–38, chief founder of Harvard College, b. Southwark, England, M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1635. He immigrated in 1637 to Charlestown, Mass...
1837–1902, American educator, b. Bedford, N.H. At the age of 16 he began his first job as a teacher in New Hampshire. After serving with the Union a...
1855–1934, American educator, b. Salem, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1875; M.A., 1882). As a teacher at Harvard he developed, with Barrett Wendell, a...