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(v shwän´ät prä´täp s ng) (KEY) , 1931–, Indian politician and prime minister (1989–90). As finance minister under Rajiv Gandhi (1984–87) ...
1799–1831, American explorer, one of the greatest of the mountain men, b. near Binghamton, N.Y. Early in 1824, Smith took a party through South Pass...
(fränts s ´g l) (KEY) , 1824–1902, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. An officer in the army of Baden, he was a...
(r ´dôlf kärl fr ´h r f n slä´t n) (KEY) , known as Slatin Pasha (pä´shä) (KEY) , 1857–1932, Austrian adventurer in British and Egyptian se...
1858–1942, American actor, b. Cambridge, Mass. Skinner made his New York debut in 1879. After years as supporting player to Booth and Barrett, he to...
1923–, American poet, b. Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He began teaching at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1959. Using ...