Biography Category
1831–1912, English architect. Breaking away from contemporary Victorian house designs and returning to the Queen Anne and Georgian styles and to tra...
[Lat.,=sucking from], taking of molecules of one substance directly into another substance. It is contrasted with adsorption, in which the molecules a...
( n´w n) (KEY) , 1863–1940, English architect and town planner. He designed the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick developm...
(äp´sälôn) (KEY) or Axel (äk´s l) (KEY) , c.1128–1201, Danish churchman, archbishop of Lund (1178–1201). He had great influence on politica...
(ä´b äl-äbäs´ äs-säfä´) (KEY) , d. 754, 1st Abbasid caliph (749–54). Raised to the caliphate by the armed might of Abu Muslim, he took th...
(bü´ström) (KEY) , 1783–1848, Swedish sculptor. He spent part of his life in Rome. Byström made colossal statues of kings of Sweden for Stockhol...