Biography Category
(s ´m , s m´ ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. Highly resident...
1779–1864, American chemist, geologist, and physicist, b. Trumbull, Conn., grad. Yale, 1796. In 1802 he was appointed first professor of chemistry a...
any of various plants having cleansing properties. A few are of commercial importance, but most soap plants are used locally, as in early times, for t...
(s k´r t z) (KEY) , 469–399 B.C., Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for his view of philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intellige...
(slois) (KEY) , municipality, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, on the Scheldt estuary, near the Belgian border. Sluis was founded in the 13th cent. and ...
(kär´l s th s gw n´sä g ng´g rä) (KEY) , 1645–1700, Mexican writer and humanist. The foremost intellectual figure of colonial Mexico, he wro...