Biography Category
10th letter of the alphabet, a Western European medieval development of I, with which it was formerly quite interchangeable in writing. It is pronounc...
c.1568–1623, London printer and publisher. Although it seems that he had previously pirated some of Shakespeare’s works, he was chosen by the edit...
1767–1845, 7th President of the United States (1829–37), b. Waxhaw settlement on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina (both states clai...
( ´w ) (KEY) , city (1991 est. pop. 320,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for a farm region specializing in cacao. A coffee plantation is loca...
(yäk pô´n dä tô´d ) (KEY) , 1230?–1306, Italian religious poet, whose name was originally Jacopo Benedetti. After the sudden death of his wif...
( vr ´-sür-s n) (KEY) , industrial and commercial suburb SE of Paris (1990 pop. 54,106), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France. Connected to Paris by...