Biography Category
outdoor ball and goal game, also called association football or simply football. The first recorded game probably was that on a Shrove Tuesday in Derb...
(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...
(th d´ s s ´´b - s´k k ´l nkôrt´´ l ) (KEY) , 1832–1913, American aeronaut and inventor, b. Coos co., N.H. He flew (1861) a distance of 90...
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...