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1764–1848, British geographer, promoter of arctic exploration. His early travels as secretary to Earl Macartney (who was ambassador to China and gov...
1877–1965, French geographer. He wrote a monograph on Flanders (1906) that earned him the chair of geography at the Univ. of Grenoble, a position he...
c.1700–1756, colonial surveyor and geographer, b. Wales. Evans carried out several assignments for Benjamin Franklin. His travels and studies of the...
1735–80, geographer and surveyor general to the American Revolutionary army, b. Dunfermline, Scotland. His several hundred detailed maps of the regi...
(lôr´ n, l r n´) (KEY) , 1939–, American fashion designer, b. New York City as Ralph Lipschitz. He began his career by creating neckties under th...
(Robert James Fischer) (f sh´ r) (KEY) , 1943–, American chess player, b. Chicago. In 1958, he became a grandmaster, the youngest to that time. In ...