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(äl-kh wär z´m ) (KEY) , fl. 820, Arab mathematician of the court of Mamun in Baghdad. His treatises on Hindu arithmetic and on algebra made him fa...
1872–1964, American labor expert, chief (1919–44) of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor, b. Sweden. She emigrated to the United States in 1...
(ä´hä, shäb´khä) (KEY) or Achai of Shabcha (ä´kh ) (KEY) , c.680–c.762, Babylonian rabbi. He settled (c.752) in Palestine after being passe...
1790–1859, English jurist. He served (1826–32) as professor of jurisprudence at the Univ. of London, and his lectures were published (with additio...
(äl-fä´s ) (KEY) , 1013–1103, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar of the very late Gaonic period, b. near Fès, N Africa. He headed the rabbinical ...
1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 186...