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(l ´käs älämän´) (KEY) , 1792–1853, Mexican historian and statesman. As deputy to the Spanish Cortes, he failed to win a hearing for the insur...
( m ´n s märs l ´n s) (KEY) , c.330–c.400, Roman historian, b. Antioch. After retiring from a successful military career, he wrote a history of ...
( p´ n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent., Roman historian. He was a Greek, born in Alexandria. He held various offices in Alexandria, was an advocate in Rome, a...
(Flavius Arrianus) (âr´ n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent. A.D., Greek historian, philosopher, and general, b. Nicomedia in Bithynia. He was governor of Cappa...
fl. 247–205 B.C., Greek mathematician of the Alexandrian school. He produced a treatise on conic sections that included, as well as his own work, mu...
(äkhäd´ hä-äm) (KEY) [Heb.,=One of the People], 1856–1927, Jewish thinker and Zionist leader, b. Ukraine. Originally named Asher Ginzberg, he ...