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1907–, American economist, b. Vienna, Austria. After receiving a doctorate in international and public law from Frankfurt Univ. (1931), Drucker was ...
(gä täN´ v s´tr s) (KEY) , 1729–1808, Italian-French classical dancer, b. Florence. Vestris was one of the greatest dancers of the 18th cent. Bo...
(h nz´l ) (KEY) , 1796–1861, English botanist. He was professor of mineralogy (1822–27) and of botany (1827–61) at Cambridge Univ. Henslow was ...
(Basileios Zacharias) (z ´h r f´´) (KEY) , 1850–1936, international financier and munitions manufacturer, b. Anatolia, Turkey, probably of Greek-...
1769–1841, American manufacturer and philanthropist, b. Providence, R.I., grad. Rhode Island College (renamed Brown Univ. in 1804 for him), 1786. He...
(äl´br kht pf s´t r) (KEY) , c.1420–c.1470, printer, of Bamberg, Bavaria. He is believed to have been the first to print illustrated books (c.146...