Biography Category
(h s ´ äs nsy n´ s l´vä) (KEY) , 1865–96, Colombian poet, one of the precursors of modernismo. Silva’s life was shadowed by the loss of a cru...
(äNtwän´ s môN´) (KEY) , 1736–94, French revolutionary, often called “the shoemaker,” a member of the Commune of Paris. He and his wife gua...
(är´´y bh t´ ) (KEY) , c.476–550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer. He is one of the first known to have used algebra; his writings include ru...
island group (2002 pop. 214,445), South Pacific, a part of French Polynesia. The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands (total l...
main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in dow...
(sh ´län) (KEY) or Zealand (z ´l nd) (KEY) , Ger. Seeland, island (1992 pop. 1,976,882), 2,709 sq mi (7,016 sq km), E Denmark, between the Kattega...