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(m n´ th ) (KEY) , fl. 300 B.C., Egyptian historian, a priest at Heliopolis, under Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II. His work, covering the history of Egypt ...
(zhäk v k st ´) (KEY) , 1910–97, French oceanographer and naval officer. In 1943, with Émil Gagnan, he invented the self-contained underwater br...
(f r´d nänt bär n´ f n r kht´h f n) (KEY) , 1833–1905, German geographer, geologist, and traveler. He took part in a Prussian expedition in E A...
(t ´sh s, t ´s s) (KEY) , fl. 400 B.C., Greek historian and physician of Cnidus. He lived many years in the Persian court. He tended Artaxerxes II...
(b r ´s s) (KEY) , 3d cent. B.C., Babylonian priest-historian; contemporary of Manetho. His work, in Greek, preserved Mesopotamian myths regarding cr...
(l ´käs älämän´) (KEY) , 1792–1853, Mexican historian and statesman. As deputy to the Spanish Cortes, he failed to win a hearing for the insur...