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(sy rg ´ päv´l v ch dyä´g ly f) (KEY) , 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, 1892. ...
(dy ´ r) (KEY) , 1842–1923, British chemist and physicist, b. Scotland. He was professor of chemistry (from 1877) at the Royal Institution, London,...
1798–1834, Scottish botanist. He made several journeys in North America between 1823 and 1834 to study American plants and sent to Scotland more tha...
( ty n´ dôl ´) (KEY) , 1509–46, French scholar, painter, and printer of Lyons. He wrote treatises on French grammar, poems, a short history of Fr...
(d ) (KEY) , c.1620–1649, British printer in Massachusetts Bay colony; son of Stephen Daye. His name first appears on the almanac for 1647, but it w...
(dûr´b ) (KEY) , 1739–99, American merchant, b. Salem, Mass. He inherited the considerable wealth and maritime business that his father, Richard D...