Biography Category
in Roman religion and mythology, the supreme god, also called Jove. Originally a sky deity associated with rain and agriculture, he developed into the...
Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bib...
(zhäN bät st´ zh rdäN´) (KEY) , 1762–1833, marshal of France. He fought in the American Revolution, and in the French Revolutionary Wars he com...
(j n ´, j ´n ) (KEY) , 1793–1856, French Canadian fur trader and founder of Milwaukee, Wis., b. near Montreal. In 1818, as an agent of the America...
(t ôdôr´ s môN´ zh frwä´) (KEY) , 1796–1842, French philosopher. He was professor at the Collège de France and librarian at the Univ. of Par...
1443–1513, pope (1503–13), an Italian named Giuliano della Rovere, b. Savona; successor of Pius III. His uncle Sixtus IV gave him many offices and...