Biography Category
c.1554–1612, English nonconformist clergyman and early believer in adult baptism. Influenced by the Brownists, he separated from the Church of Engla...
(l s s) (KEY) , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant ...
a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered ...
(y d k´s s, n ´d s) (KEY) , 408?–355? B.C., Greek astronomer, mathematician, and physician. From the accounts of various ancient writers, he appea...
precipitation formed by the sublimation of water vapor into solid crystals at temperatures below freezing. Sublimation resulting in the formation of s...
or Shivaji (sh vä´j ) (KEY) , 1627–80, Indian ruler, leader of the Marathas. The son of a Maratha chieftain, he was imbued from early childhood wi...