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(l t´v kh ändr ´äs foi´ rbäkh) (KEY) , 1804–72, German philosopher, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin; son of Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach...
1885–1977, German Marxist philosopher. He taught at the Univ. of Leipzig (1918–33), drifting toward Marxist thought during the 1920s. He fled the ...
(v l nt ´n ) (KEY) , 1895–1926, American film actor, b. Italy as Rodolfo Guglielmi. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and, after a brief ca...
1631–1718, English philosopher. He was bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In his De legibus naturae [on natural laws] (1672) he first propounded the ...
1904–86, British movie actor, b. Bristol as Archibald Alexander Leach. He began on stage in 1923 and made his first film in 1932. An almost immediat...
(p th ´, Fr. shärl pät ´) (KEY) , 1873–1957, French photographer. He was the first to present (c.1909) the newsreel as a regular attraction at a...