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1864–1941, American educator, organizer, and sociologist, b. Rockford, Ill., grad. Yale, 1885, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1896; son of Bishop John Heyl...
(spr g) (KEY) , 1857–1934, American electrical engineer, b. Milford, Conn., grad. Annapolis, 1878. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison in 1883 and ...
(t b r´ s) (KEY) , town (1994 pop. 36,400), NE Israel, on the Sea of Galilee, 682 ft (208 m) below sea level. It is one of the four holy cities of J...
(hwän s bästyän´ d l kä´n ) (KEY) , c.1476–1526, Spanish navigator, the first to circumnavigate the globe. Under Magellan he commanded the Con...
1847–1922, American scientist, inventor of the telephone, b. Edinburgh, Scotland, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh and University College, London;...
or Tien Shan (both: t n shän) (KEY) [Chin.,=celestial mountains], mountain system of central Asia, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) from the Pamir M...