Biography Category
(stän slä´ kän-n t-tsä´r ) (KEY) , 1826–1910, Italian chemist. From 1861 he was professor at Palermo and from 1871 at Rome, where he was also...
(r n ´ k y ´) (KEY) , 1799–1838, French explorer in Africa. He was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return. The son of poor French peasant...
fl. 1461–98, English explorer, probably b. Genoa, Italy. He became a citizen of Venice in 1476 and engaged in the Eastern trade of that city. This e...
(g shpär´ kôr´t r äl´) (KEY) , c.1450–1501?, Portuguese explorer. Sent by King Manuel I to search for the Northwest Passage, he is said to ha...
1728–79, English explorer and navigator. The son of a Yorkshire agricultural laborer, he had little formal education. After an apprenticeship to a f...
(h s ´ rä l´ käpäbläng´kä) (KEY) , 1888–1942, Cuban chess player, b. Havana. Champion of Cuba at the age of 12, he won the world’s champio...