Biography Category
(s k hôr´) (KEY) , island (133 sq mi/344 sq km), one of the Visayan Islands, the Philippines, just off the southeast coast of Negros. Fishing is its...
(sm th) (KEY) , 1858–1944, English composer, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Besides her many songs and chamber music she wrote operas, includi...
(n kôlä´) (KEY) , 1594–1665, French painter, b. Les Andelys. Poussin was considered the greatest of living painters by his contemporaries. Althou...
(b r´närt vän ôr´l ) (KEY) , or Barend van Orley (bä´r nt) (KEY) , c.1491–1542, Flemish painter. In 1515 he was settled in Brussels, where he...
district of the City of London, England. Beginning in the 12th cent., it was used for fairs, markets, jousts, and executions. During the reign of Quee...
(h f) (KEY) , 1836–1909, American astronomer, b. Montgomery co., N.Y., grad. Union College, 1856. He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic...