Biography Category
(äNtwän´ s môN´) (KEY) , 1736–94, French revolutionary, often called “the shoemaker,” a member of the Commune of Paris. He and his wife gua...
island group (2002 pop. 214,445), South Pacific, a part of French Polynesia. The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands (total l...
main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in dow...
(sh ´län) (KEY) or Zealand (z ´l nd) (KEY) , Ger. Seeland, island (1992 pop. 1,976,882), 2,709 sq mi (7,016 sq km), E Denmark, between the Kattega...
(kr s´tôf sh n´ r) (KEY) , 1579?–1650, German astronomer and mathematician, a Jesuit priest. He taught at Ingolstadt, Rome, and elsewhere and bec...
instrument for making numerical computations and readings, the results of which may be read easily and quickly after performing simple mechanical mani...