Biography Category
(l v´ , l ´v ) (KEY) , 1911–2000, American lawyer, legal educator, and public official, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago and Yale Univ. law scho...
( mä´n l) (KEY) , 1868–1941, German chess player. He won the world championship in 1894 when he defeated Wilhelm Steinitz and held it until he wa...
(Sir William Arthur Lewis), 1915–91, British economist, b. St. Lucia. A graduate (1940) of the London School of Economics, he was later a professor ...
1804–34, English explorer. He accompanied Clapperton to the Niger River in 1827 and brought back Clapperton’s journal, which was published (1829) ...
1900–1989, American author and educator, b. Washington, D.C. He was educated (1915–19) at St. Bees School, Cumberland, England, and did graduate r...
(l f r´ ks n) (KEY) , Old Norse Leifr Eiriksson, fl. A.D. 999–1000, Norse discoverer of America, b. probably in Iceland; son of Eric the Red. He s...