Added On....... 10-Jun-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography << First < Prev 1 2    acetaldehyde ( s´´ t l´d h d) (KEY) or ethanal ( th´ n l´´) (KEY) , CH3CHO, colorless liquid aldehyde, sometimes simply called aldehyde. It melts at -123°C, boils at 20.8°C, and is soluble in water and ethanol. I... Boucicaut Master (b s k ´) (KEY) , active c.1375–1400, Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminator. The master was named for his greatest work, The Hours of the Maréchal de Boucicaut (Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris). In this... Smirke, Sir Robert 1781–1867, English architect, one of the most noted exponents of the classic revival. His best-known design is the main facade of the British Museum (1823–47). Other buildings in London are the Genera... Cole, Nat “King” 1919–65, American musician and composer, b. Montgomery, Ala., as Nathaniel Adams Coles. A jazz pianist, he played Los Angeles nightclubs and in 1938 formed the original King Cole Trio. Later he turned... Ibn Tufayl ( ´b n t f l´) (KEY) , d. 1185/86?, 12th-century Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician, b. near Granada. His chief work was a philosophical romance, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, describing the development of a h... Marcos de Niza (mär´k s d n ´sä) (KEY) , c.1495–1558, missionary explorer in Spanish North America. A Franciscan friar, he served in Peru and Guatemala before going to Mexico. There he headed an expedition (1539) p... James, P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park), 1920–, English mystery novelist, b. Oxford, England. From 1964 to 1979 she worked in the criminal department of the Department of Home Af... Jackson, Robert Houghwout (hou´ t) (KEY) , 1892–1954, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941–54), b. Spring Creek, Pa. Despite the fact that he did not have a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1913 after a b... << First < Prev 1 2