Biography Category
(SDP), former British political party founded in 1981 to offer a centrist alternative to the more extreme positions of the then ruling Conservative pa...
(Charles Elwood Yeager), 1923–, American aviator. A fighter pilot during World War II, he was a test pilot during the early postwar years. Among oth...
(sh ´ n, sh ´ n) (KEY) , city (1995 pop. 48,341), capital of Telemark co., SE Norway, a port on the Skienselva River and on the Telemark Canal. Manu...
1913–, French novelist. He was born in Madagascar and studied at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge. He fought in World War II both as a soldier and later...
(d n ´ güst´ mär ´ räf ´) (KEY) , 1804–60, French lithographer and illustrator; student of Charlet and of Gros. He attained an individual st...
(sl v ´k , sl vä´k ) (KEY) or the Slovak Republic, Slovak Slovensko (slô´v nskô) (KEY) , republic (1995 est. pop. 5,432,000), 18,917 sq mi (4...