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(b r´t l ´l n) (KEY) , 1899–1979, Swedish economist, b. Klippan. A professor at several Swedish universities, he wrote the influential Interregio...
1855–1918, American historian, b. Canton, Maine. He taught at Worcester Academy (1877–79) and Brooklyn High School (1883–89). From 1890 to 1896 ...
( l´n , l´n ) (KEY) , 1798–1872, American geographer and teacher. His Practical System of Modern Geography (1828), a standard work for decades, r...
1857–1935, American paleontologist and geologist, b. Fairfield, Conn. He was professor of comparative anatomy (1883–90) at Princeton, and professo...
(ôrt ´ly s) (KEY) , 1527–98, Flemish geographer, of German origin. Next to his contemporary Mercator, he is the most renowned of the 16th-century ...
( ´b rh lt´´s r) (KEY) , 1868–1936, American historian, b. Chester co., Pa. He studied abroad and then worked on various Philadelphia newspapers....