Added On....... 13-Sep-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography    1 2 Next > Last >> Applegarth, Robert 1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 1862 its general secretary. Under his leadership the so... Dubinsky, David (d b n´sk ) (KEY) , 1892–1982, American labor leader, president (1932–66) of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), b. Brest-Litovsk, Poland. He was a baker in his father’s shop in Lo... Stopes, Marie Carmichael (st ps) (KEY) , 1880–1958, English paleobotanist and eugenicist, b. Edinburgh, D.Sc. Univ. of London, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich. She lectured on paleobotany at the universities of London and Manchester. I... Briggs, Henry 1561–1630, English mathematician. He was the first professor of geometry at Gresham College, London (1596–1619), and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford (from 1619). After publication of Napier’... Sobat (s ´bät) (KEY) , river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, formed on the Ethiopia-Sudan border, E Africa, by the confluence of the Baro and Pibor rivers. It flows generally NW through SE Sudan, past Nasir, to th... Sandby, Paul (s nd´b ) (KEY) , 1725–1809, English watercolorist and draftsman. He was employed to survey the Highlands of Scotland after the 1745 rebellion. During his years in Scotland (1746–51) he learned to int... Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de (zhäN bät st´ py r äNtwän´d môn ´, sh väly ´ d lämärk´) (KEY) , 1744–1829, French naturalist. He is noted for his study and classification of invertebrates and for his introduction of evolutionary t... Engleheart, George 1752–1829, English miniature painter. He studied with Sir Joshua Reynolds and made copies in miniature of Reynolds’s paintings. Court miniaturist under George III, he competed successfully with the fa... Kauffmann, Angelica (äng-g ´l kä kouf´män) (KEY) , 1741–1807, Swiss neoclassical painter and graphic artist. From her youth she was known for her artistic, musical, and linguistic abilities. She went to England, where sh... Metsu, Gabriel (both: gä´br l m t´sü) (KEY) , 1630?–1667, Dutch genre painter, b. Leiden. In 1657 he moved to Amsterdam, where he remained for the rest of his life. In his youth he painted biblical subjects, such a... Carolus-Duran (kärôlüs´-düräN´) (KEY) , 1837–1917, French painter whose original name was Charles Auguste Émile Durand. He was influenced by Courbet and studied in Lille and Paris. In 1861 he won a pension and trav... Campin, Robert (käm´p n) (KEY) , 1378–1444, Flemish painter who with the van Eycks ranks as a founder of the Netherlandish school. This artist has been identified as the Master of Flémalle on the basis of three pane... Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (l ´ch nz, l ´ty nz) (KEY) , 1869–1944, English architect. He began his career designing small houses in Surrey and later executed a series of large country establishments, many of them complete with ... Marx Brothers team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1895–1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1893–1964), called Harpo; Leonard (1891–1961), known as Chico; and two other brothers, Milton (Gummo) a... Evans, Sir Arthur John 1851–1941, English archaeologist. He was (1884–1908) keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. From 1900 to 1935 he conducted excavations on the Greek island of Crete, principally at Knossos, and ther...    1 2 Next > Last >>