Biography Category
(slois) (KEY) , municipality, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, on the Scheldt estuary, near the Belgian border. Sluis was founded in the 13th cent. and ...
(kär´l s th s gw n´sä g ng´g rä) (KEY) , 1645–1700, Mexican writer and humanist. The foremost intellectual figure of colonial Mexico, he wro...
(s ´täp r) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 121,842), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. The town is a market for grain, oilseed, and jute. The sugar and ...
range of the Australian Alps, SE Australia. It is the site of the Snowy Mts. Hydroelectric Scheme, Australia’s most extensive hydroelectricity and i...
1825–95, English biologist and educator, grad. Charing Cross Hospital, 1845. Huxley gave up his own biological research to become an influential sci...
(Francis Albert Sinatra), 1915–98, American singer and actor, b. Hoboken, N.J. During the late 1930s and early 40s he sang with the Harry James and ...