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(g shpär´ kôr´t r äl´) (KEY) , c.1450–1501?, Portuguese explorer. Sent by King Manuel I to search for the Northwest Passage, he is said to ha...
1811–92, American educator and philosopher, b. Farmington, Conn., grad. Yale, 1831. He entered the ministry in 1836. In 1846 he became professor of ...
(d m´p r) (KEY) , 1651–1715, English explorer, buccaneer, hydrographer, and naturalist. He fought (1673) in the Dutch War, managed a plantation in ...
(p ´bäd , –b d ) (KEY) , 1804–94, American educator, lecturer, and reformer, b. Billerica, Mass. The Peabody family moved (c.1809) to Salem, whe...
(pou´l fr r´) (KEY) , 1921–97, Brazilian educator. After his exile from Brazil following the military coup in 1964, Freire taught in Chile and wa...
1890–1954, American engineer and radio inventor, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (E.E. 1913). He was associated in research with Michael I. Pupin a...