Biography Category
(g y m´ d l l´) (KEY) , 1675–1726, French geographer and cartographer. His most important work is a world map (1700), as accurate as the data avai...
(n v´ n f n´ m n) (KEY) , 1865–1945, American geologist, geographer, and teacher, b. Lima, Ohio; B.A. (1883) Heidelberg College, Ohio; M.A. (1900)...
large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City. The square, named for its Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen), ...
(Diana Dalziel), 1906–89, American fashion editor and consultant, b. Paris. In 1937, she joined Harper’s Bazaar, becoming fashion editor in 1939. ...
1832–1918, American educator and diplomat, b. Homer, N.Y., briefly attended Geneva (now Hobart) College, grad. Yale, 1853. He studied in France and ...
(g n´ t) (KEY) , 1846–1914, American geographer, b. Bath, Maine, grad. Harvard (B.S., 1869; M.E., 1870). His first work as a topographer was on the...