Added On....... 10-Aug-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography Behring, Emil Adolph von ( ´m l ä´d lf f n bâr´ ng) (KEY) , 1854–1917, German physician. He worked with Kitasato at Koch’s laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was professor of hygiene at Marburg. A pioneer in serum therapy, fo... Lindley, John 1799–1865, English botanist and horticulturist. He organized the first flower shows in England and was influential in preserving the Royal Gardens at Kew (see Kew Gardens). In 1829 he was appointed th... Bodley, Sir Thomas 1545–1613, English scholar and diplomat, organizer of the Bodleian Library at Oxford Univ. He was a Greek scholar and teacher at Oxford, and in 1584 he was elected to Parliament. He spent 11 years (15... Siloam (s l ´ m) (KEY) , pool, SW corner of Jerusalem in the Kidron valley, mentioned in the Bible. A nearby 1,700-foot-long (518 m) tunnel, dating from the time of Hezekiah, diverted water underneath Jerusa... Sinyavsky, Andrey Donatovich ( ndr ´ d nät´ vy ch´´ s nyäf´sk ) (KEY) , 1925–97, Russian novelist and essayist. Starting in the 1960s, Sinyavsky, a protege of Boris Pasternak, had a number of works, all focusing on the nightmaris... Magnasco, Allessandro (äl s-sän´dr mägnäs´k ) (KEY) , 1667–1749, Italian painter. Magnasco’s style developed from an early apprenticeship to a Venetian painter and from his exposure to Lombard mannerism during his years a... abortion expulsion of the products of conception before the embryo or fetus is viable. Any interruption of human pregnancy prior to the 28th week is known as abortion. The term spontaneous abortion, or miscarr... Brubeck, Dave (David Warren Brubeck) (br ´b k) (KEY) , 1920–, American pianist and composer, b. Concord, Calif. Brubeck began studying piano at the age of four and later studied composition with Milhaud and Schoenb... Hocking, William Ernest 1873–1966, American idealist philosopher, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1901; Ph.D., 1904). He was professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1914 until his retirement in 1943. His writings, which e... Kachin State (k ch n´) (KEY) , state (1983 pop. 903,982), 33,903 sq mi (87,809 sq km), extreme N Myanmar. It is a mountainous region bounded on the NW by India and on the N and E by China and traversed by tributar... Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig (fr ´dr kh l t´v kh yän) (KEY) , 1778–1852, German patriot. A high school teacher in Berlin, he was active in efforts to free Germany from Napoleonic rule. He organized the Turnverein, a gymnastic ass... Chilperic I (ch l´p r k) (KEY) , d. 584, Frankish king of Neustria (561–84), son of Clotaire I. He feuded bitterly with his brother Sigebert I, who had inherited the E Frankish kingdom that came to be known as Au... William Shakespeare Not Available