Biography Category
(g r´ t p ´t r k ´p r) (KEY) , 1905–73, American astronomer, b. the Netherlands. Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary scienc...
(s k´l fyör´´th r) (KEY) , town (1993 pop. 1,781), N Iceland, on the Greenland Sea. It is known as the capital of Iceland’s herring industry....
precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If t...
city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers aba...
(âr´härt) (KEY) , 1897–1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first ...
1878–1931, British portrait and genre painter, b. Ireland. He is best known for his scenes of Irish daily life, his paintings and sketches of life a...