Biography Category
1787–1860, British general and administrator. He served in the Peninsular War and in the War of 1812 and was a brigade major at the battle of Waterl...
(Margaret Florence Smith), 1902–71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher’...
1566–1632, king of Poland (1587–1632) and Sweden (1592–99). The son of John III of Sweden and Catherine, sister of Sigismund II of Poland, he un...
(bäsh v´ s) (KEY) , 1904–91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. J. Singer, b. Leoncin, Poland...
(s l´k bôr´´) (KEY) , city (1992 pop. 35,027), Århus co., central Denmark, on the Gudenå River. It is a tourist and health resort surrounded by ...
(flä´vy loi´ älfä´r ) (KEY) , 1867–1912, president of Ecuador (1897–1901, 1907–11). Regarded as a champion of liberalism, Alfaro introdu...