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(fr ´b sh r) (KEY) , 1535?–1594, English mariner. He went to sea as a boy, and spent much of his youth in the African trade. He later gained the fr...
(f ´l p mä´n l f n f l´ nb rkh) (KEY) , 1771–1844, Swiss educator and agriculturist. He purchased (1799) an estate, Hofwyl (near Bern), where ...
(v l´h lm f lkh´n r) (KEY) , 1877–1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer. He led several expeditions to China and Tibet, where he ...
1820–93, American inventor, b. Boscawen, N.H. He helped build and maintain some of the pioneer telegraph lines of Massachusetts and experimented in ...
or Ferishta (both: f r sht ´) (KEY) , c.1560–c.1620, Indian Muslim historian. His given name was Muhammad Kasim Hindu Shah. Under the patronage of ...
(f ks) (KEY) , 1908–99, English geologist and explorer, b. Kent, educated at Cambridge. He was a geologist on expeditions to Greenland (1929) and to...