Biography Category
1752–1802, American educator and politician, b. North Andover, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1771. A member of the Massachusetts provincial congress (1775â€...
1813–97, English inventor of phonographic shorthand. In Stenographic Soundhand (1837) he set forth a shorthand system based on phonetic rather than ...
(r kär´th päl´mä) (KEY) , 1833–1919, Peruvian scholar and author. Palma abandoned an active early career as a naval officer, journalist, and p...
(p mp ´n s m ´l ) (KEY) , fl. c.A.D. 50, Roman geographer, b. Spain. His De situ orbis, a description of the then known world, was published in Lat...
(ny k l ´ m kh ´l v ch p rzh väl´sk ) (KEY) , 1839–88, Russian geographer and explorer in central and E Asia. He made five major expeditions—o...
(p ´ r) (KEY) , 1842–1915, Austrian explorer and painter. While on an expedition (1872–74) to navigate the Northeast Passage with Karl Weyprecht,...