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1925–66, American comedian, b. Long Island, N.Y., as Leonard Alfred Schneider. Possessed of a cynical, surreal, and intensely comic view of the worl...
1829–1914, American physician and author, b. Philadelphia, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, 1850, studied in Paris. A pioneer in the application of p...
1823–62, American lawyer, b. Jefferson co., Ga.; brother of Howell Cobb. Admitted to the bar in 1842, he edited 20 volumes of the Georgia supreme co...
(l ´ pôlt ts nts´) (KEY) , 1794–1886, German Jewish scholar. His critical research on Judaism became one of the cornerstones of the “science of...
(dr ´k ) (KEY) or Dracon (dr ´k n) (KEY) , fl. 621 B.C., Athenian politician and law codifier. Of his codification of Athenian customary law only t...
(r n l´) (KEY) , 1843–1914, English jurist. He was a founder of the school of law at Oxford Univ. From 1899 to his death he sat in Parliament as a ...