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(y ´hän gôt´fr t shä´dôf) (KEY) , 1764–1850, German sculptor of the neoclassical school. He studied in Rome. In 1788 he returned to Berlin, w...
1939–, U.S. government official and business executive, b. Toledo, Ohio. An economist and lawyer, he held Dept. of Transportation posts in the Nixon...
(väl´t r bä´d ) (KEY) , 1893–1960, German-born American astronomer. From 1919 to 1931 he was on the staff of the Hamburg observatory; from 1931 ...
(fräns sn ´d rs) (KEY) , 1579–1657, most celebrated Flemish still-life and animal painter, b. Antwerp. He studied with Bruegel, the younger, and H...
(fl m´st d) (KEY) , 1646–1719, English astronomer. He was appointed (1675) astronomer royal by King Charles II and carried on his researches at Gre...
(s l´ch st r) (KEY) , village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 ...