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(s l´ch st r) (KEY) , village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 ...
(fräns sn ´d rs) (KEY) , 1579–1657, most celebrated Flemish still-life and animal painter, b. Antwerp. He studied with Bruegel, the younger, and H...
1945–, American educator and college president, b. Grapeland, Tex., grad. Dillard Univ. (B.A., 1967) and Harvard (A.M., 1970; Ph.D., 1973). As a sch...
1939–, U.S. government official and business executive, b. Toledo, Ohio. An economist and lawyer, he held Dept. of Transportation posts in the Nixon...
(y ´hän gôt´fr t shä´dôf) (KEY) , 1764–1850, German sculptor of the neoclassical school. He studied in Rome. In 1788 he returned to Berlin, w...
sport of sliding over snow on skis—long, narrow, flexible runners. Water skiing is a warm-weather sport in which a motor-propelled craft tows a skie...