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(lw äNtwän´ d b g Nv l´) (KEY) , 1729–1811, French navigator. He accompanied Montcalm to Canada as aide-de-camp, and he later (c.1764) establi...
(kr st ´bäl bäl nthyä´gä) (KEY) , 1895–1972, French fashion designer. He established houses of couture in Spain and in Paris (1937–68) and q...
c.1584–1622, British arctic explorer. He was pilot on two expeditions (1615–16) sent out to search for the Northwest Passage under command of Robe...
1847–1922, American scientist, inventor of the telephone, b. Edinburgh, Scotland, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh and University College, London;...
1764–1848, British geographer, promoter of arctic exploration. His early travels as secretary to Earl Macartney (who was ambassador to China and gov...
1926–, American biologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Western Reserve Univ., 1952. A professor at Washington Univ. at St. Louis and Stanford Univ., he ...