Biography Category
(s b ´z ) (KEY) , 1899–1982, king of Swaziland (1921–82). He became paramount chief of the Swazi in 1921, after a 22-year regency, and was recogn...
(sl v ´n ) (KEY) , Croatian Slavonija, historic region, part of Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the ...
1823–83, English electrical engineer, b. Germany; brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens. Originally his name was Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After visiting ...
chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassiu...
(s r k´ ) (KEY) [Ital., from Arab. sharq=east], hot, dust-laden, dry, southerly wind originating in the N African desert (most commonly in the sprin...
(yô´z f väts´läf slä´d k) (KEY) , 1845–1912, Czech poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1868 to 1870. Sládek later taught...