Biography Category
(d ´l n) (KEY) , 1904–83, English ballet dancer and choreographer, originally named Patrick Healey-Kay. Dolin joined Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in ...
1819–80, American oil well driller, b. Greene co., N.Y. In 1858 he was employed to conduct drilling operations and on Aug. 27, 1859, he struck oil n...
(d m´p r) (KEY) , 1651–1715, English explorer, buccaneer, hydrographer, and naturalist. He fought (1673) in the Dutch War, managed a plantation in ...
( ´r kh f n dr gäl´sk ) (KEY) , 1865–1949, German polar explorer. A professor of geography at the Univ. of Munich, he led an expedition that wint...
(d bär´) (KEY) , 1721?–1824, British army officer, surveyor, and artist. He was born of French parents (probably in Switzerland), was educated at ...
(bär´´t l m ´ d ´ sh) (KEY) , d. 1500, Portuguese navigator. He was the first European to round (1488) the Cape of Good Hope, which he called Ca...