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(r ´dôlf kr s´tôf oik´ n) (KEY) , 1846–1926, German philosopher, studied at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught philosophy at Basel and became pro...
(Clinton Eastwood, Jr.), 1930–, American actor and director, b. San Francisco. Eastwood, who began his acting career in 1955, came to public attenti...
(Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899–1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D.C. Ellington made his first professional appearance as ...
(y h m´ r s) (KEY) , fl. c.300 B.C., Cyrenaic philosopher, b. Sicily. He is famous for a theory of mythology embodied in his philosophical romance, S...
( r z´m s) (KEY) or Desiderius Erasmus (d s d r´ s) (KEY) [Gr. Erasmus, his given name, and Lat., Desiderius=beloved; both are regarded as the eq...
(y n ´p s) (KEY) , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His cont...