Added On....... 29-Jul-2008 POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography    1 2 3 Next > Last >> Hesychius of Alexandria (h s k´ s) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent.?, Alexandrian grammarian. Hesychius is known as the compiler of an invaluable lexicon, a glossary of unusual words and expressions occurring in Greek writings. The ma... Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman 1921–, American medical physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1945. As a researcher at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, Yalow and colleague Solomon A. Berson developed a pro... Willard, Emma 1787–1870, American educator, pioneer in woman’s education, b. Emma Hart in Berlin, Conn. She attended and later taught in the local academy and in 1807 took charge of the Female Academy at Middlebury... Tibetan art and architecture have been almost entirely religious in character (see Tibetan Buddhism). The art of Tibetan Lamaism retains strong elements drawn from the forms of both Hinduism and Buddhism in India and Nepal, and w... Bode, Boyd Henry 1873–1953, American educator, b. Ridott, Ill., grad. Pennsylvania College (Iowa), 1896, Univ. of Michigan, 1897, Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1900. He taught philosophy at the Univ. of Wisconsin from 1900 to ... Douglas, Clifford Hugh 1879–1952, English engineer and social economist, educated at Cambridge Univ. Author of the economic theory of Social Credit, he became (1935) chief reconstruction adviser to the Social Credit governm... Haber, Fritz (hä´b r) (KEY) , 1868–1934, German chemist. He was a professor of physical chemistry at Karlsruhe and became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Dahlem in 1911. During World War I he directed ... Grace, William Russell 1832–1904, American financier, b. Queenstown, Ireland. He was in business in England and Peru before establishing (1865) W. R. Grace & Company in New York City. After Peru’s defeat by Chile, Grace was... socialism general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods. Because of the col... Sierra Leone (s r´ l ´n , l n´; s r´ l n) (KEY) , officially Republic of Sierra Leone, republic (1995 est. pop. 4,753,000), 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km), W Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the ... Meunier, Constantin (kôNstäNt N´ möny ´) (KEY) , 1831–1905, Belgian sculptor and painter. In paintings of monastic life and of factory workers and miners, his work expressed the dignity of labor, in a style marked by rom... Hodler, Ferdinand (h d´l r) (KEY) , 1853–1918, Swiss painter and lithographer. At first he worked in an ornamental style akin to art nouveau. Inclined toward mysticism, he visited Paris in 1891 and was attracted to the... Casorati, Felice (f l ´ch käs rä´t ) (KEY) , 1886–1963, Italian painter. Influenced by Beardsley and other English engravers, Casorati, together with Carrà, was involved in the symbolist movement. He was instrumental... Abuja (äb ´j ) (KEY) , city and federal capital territory (1991 est. pop. 378,700), central Nigeria. Plans to move the capital from Lagos were approved in 1976, and a 3,000-sq mi (7,770-sq km) capital terri... Stern, Robert A. M. (Robert Arthur Morton Stern), 1939–, American architect, b. New York City. He studied architecture at Yale Univ., became a practicing architect in the mid-1960s, and a professor of architecture at Col...    1 2 3 Next > Last >>