Biography Category
(s g´ b rt) (KEY) , d. 575, Frankish king of Austrasia (561–75), son of Clotaire I. He constantly feuded with his brother Chilperic I, who had inhe...
(n r d m´ s h n k´) (KEY) , 1922–, king of Cambodia (1941–55, 1993–2004). Sihanouk was educated in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Paris and...
1806–70, American novelist, b. Charleston, S.C. He wrote prolifically, both prose and poetry, but it is for his historical romances about his own st...
(äm d ´ zäNfäN´) (KEY) , 1886–1966, French art theorist and painter. He criticized the cubists after 1912 for creating a merely decorative art...
(n ´k lous k nst nty n´ rör´ kh) (KEY) , 1874–1947, Russian artist, scene designer, and archaeologist. He was connected with the Moscow Art Thea...
1902–84, American paleontologist and zoologist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Yale, 1926. He became assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American...