Biography Category
(s ´k ) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Town, SW ancient Palestine, SW of Bethlehem. It is also spelled Shochoh, Shoco, Shocho, Socho, and Sochoh. 2 Town, in...
(sm ´l ) (KEY) , 1857–1940, British labor official, b. Belfast, Ireland, of Scottish parents. He was president of the Scottish Miners’ Federation...
(ô´t l ´ly ntäl) (KEY) , 1848–96, German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer in his experiments with gliders. He made major developments in the gl...
(s m´n l) (KEY) , c.1475–1525, imposter and pretender to the English throne. Little is known of his early life, but before 1486 he caught the atten...
Simeon Borisov Sakskoburggotski, or Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1937–, czar (1943–46) and premier (2001–) of Bulgaria. He succeeded his fa...
(h r´kül s z ´g rs) (KEY) , c.1590–c.1638, Dutch landscape painter and etcher. Seghers’s work greatly influenced early 17th-century Dutch lands...