Biography Category
(hûr´sh l) (KEY) , family of distinguished English astronomers.
Sir William Herschel
Sir William Herschel, 1738–1822, born Friedrich Wilhelm He...
(ämä´l skräm) (KEY) , 1846–1905, Norwegian writer. In Denmark, where she lived most of her life, Skram wrote Constance Ring (1885, tr. 1988), ...
(s m´ l ) (KEY) [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns’s poem...
( l rôs´s ) (KEY) , 1495–1540, Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism, b. Florence. His real name was Giovan Battista di Iacopo di Gasp...
The earliest documents written in the Slovak language date from the 15th cent. Following the Czech Hussite movement, many Czech cultural leaders emigr...
(häns r kh´t r) (KEY) , 1888–1976, American artist, b. Germany. A painter and filmmaker, Richter was influenced by cubism and Dada and was a membe...