Biography Category
(kârnz) (KEY) , 1823–75, Irish economist, a follower of John Stuart Mill. His Slave Power (1862), a defense of the North in the American Civil War,...
1902–81, American librarian and political scientist, b. Bastrop co., Tex. After teaching political science at several universities, he became direct...
1870–1959, American biologist and anatomist, b. Germantown, Pa., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1894. He went to Yale as professor of comparative anatomy in 1...
(h s ´ gr k´ ) (KEY) , 1918–2001, Spanish-American dancer and choreographer, b. Italy. Greco emigrated to the United States as a child. He first a...
(r th´ch ld, Ger. r t´sh lt) (KEY) , prominent family of European bankers. The first important member was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743–1812), so...
(märk ´vä) (KEY) , 1910–2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in 1924 and...