Biography Category
(Margaret Florence Smith), 1902–71, English poet and novelist, b. Hull, Yorkshire. At first unnoticed as a poet, she worked in a London publisher’...
1566–1632, king of Poland (1587–1632) and Sweden (1592–99). The son of John III of Sweden and Catherine, sister of Sigismund II of Poland, he un...
(bäsh v´ s) (KEY) , 1904–91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. J. Singer, b. Leoncin, Poland...
(s l´k bôr´´) (KEY) , city (1992 pop. 35,027), Århus co., central Denmark, on the Gudenå River. It is a tourist and health resort surrounded by ...
(sl ) (KEY) , 1879–1954, American pathologist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Brown, 1899. At the Univ. of Chicago she taught pathology, becoming professor e...
(s ´s l, s s´ l, s säl´) (KEY) [from Sisal, former chief port of Yucatan], important cordage fiber obtained from the leaves of the sisal hemp pla...