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(s västyän´ v thkä ´n ) (KEY) , c.1550–c.1628, Spanish explorer and merchant. After an unsuccessful attempt to plant a colony in Lower Californ...
1757–98, English navigator and explorer. He sailed on Capt. James Cook’s second and third voyages. After 1780 he served under Admiral George Rodne...
fl. 1461–98, English explorer, probably b. Genoa, Italy. He became a citizen of Venice in 1476 and engaged in the Eastern trade of that city. This e...
(l ´d rbûrg´´) (KEY) , 1925–, American geneticist, b. Montclair, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1944, Ph.D. Yale, 1948. He is known for his studies of th...
(w n´d l) (KEY) , 1855–1921, American teacher and scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1877. He taught at Harvard (1880–1917) and lectured at Cambr...
1903–83, British economist, b. Surrey, England. A socialist, she worked with Keynes and taught at Cambridge Univ. (1931–71). Her treatise, The Eco...