Added On....... 05-Jun-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography << First < Prev 1 2    isthmus ( s´m s) (KEY) , narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas. Since it commands the only land route between two large areas and is on two seas, an isthmus has great strategical and commercial... Polycrates (p l k´r t z) (KEY) , d. c.522 B.C., tyrant of Samos. He established Samian naval supremacy in the Aegean Sea and tried to control the archipelago and mainland towns of Ionia. He dominated the E Aegea... Cimon (s ´m n) (KEY) , d. 449 B.C., Athenian general and statesman; son of Miltiades. He fought at Salamis and shared command (with Aristides) of the fleet sent to rescue the Asian Greek cities from Persian... Ruffin, Edmund (r f´ n) (KEY) , 1794–1865, American agriculturist, one of the Southern fire-eaters, b. Prince George co., Va. His interest in improving impoverished land led him to become a pioneer in soil chemistry... Charles Babbage Not Available Louis Braille Not Available Thomas (Alva) Edison Edison was the quintessential American inventor in the era of Yankee ingenuity. He began his career in 1863, in the adolescence of the telegraph industry, when virtually the only source of electricity... << First < Prev 1 2