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1855–1914, American gambler, b. New Bedford, Mass. A well-known gambling operator in Providence, R.I., Canfield went in the 1880s to New York, where...
1862–1948, American educator and public official, b. Mansfield, Conn., grad. Yale (B.A., 1885; Ph.D., 1889). He was instructor (1894–97), assistan...
( n´dr s s s lp ´n s) (KEY) , Latinized from Andrea Cesalpino (ändr ´ä ch zälp ´n ) (KEY) , 1519–1603, Italian botanist and physiologist. He...
(t ´sh s, t ´s s) (KEY) , fl. 400 B.C., Greek historian and physician of Cnidus. He lived many years in the Persian court. He tended Artaxerxes II...
(zhäk v k st ´) (KEY) , 1910–97, French oceanographer and naval officer. In 1943, with Émil Gagnan, he invented the self-contained underwater br...
(fräns s´k hävy r´ kläv h ´r ) (KEY) , 1731–87, Mexican scholar and historian. A Jesuit, he taught in Mexico until the expulsion of the order...