Biography Category
( n´ g ´´) (KEY) , 1573–1652, one of England’s first great architects. Son of a London clothmaker, he was enabled to travel in Europe before 16...
(zhôly t´) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 17,396), S Que., Canada, on L’Assomption River, NE of Montreal. Its industries include steel, paper, textile, a...
(zhông-glör´) (KEY) , itinerant entertainers of the Middle Ages in France and Norman England. Their repertoire included dancing, conjuring, acrobat...
(y ns y hä´n s yör´g ns n) (KEY) , 1866–1956, Danish poet and religious writer. He reacted against the naturalism of Georg Brandes and, in such ...
(jôrd ´n z) (KEY) , fl. 6th cent., historian of the Ostrogoths, b. in the lower Danube region. His History of the Goths, an abridgment of the lost w...
( ´när y n´sôn) (KEY) , 1874–1954, Icelandic sculptor and painter. His subjects were drawn from Nordic mythology, Icelandic folklore, and the Bi...