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(kr s´tyän dä´ny l roukh) (KEY) , 1777–1857, German sculptor. After studying in Rome (1804–11 and again later), where his work was influenced ...
(yôs´ f s m l´ v ch shkl f´sk ) (KEY) , 1916–85, Soviet astronomer. He was head of the department of radio-astronomy at the Sternberg Astronomi...
Simeon Borisov Sakskoburggotski, or Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1937–, czar (1943–46) and premier (2001–) of Bulgaria. He succeeded his fa...
(s m´n l) (KEY) , c.1475–1525, imposter and pretender to the English throne. Little is known of his early life, but before 1486 he caught the atten...
(ô´t l ´ly ntäl) (KEY) , 1848–96, German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer in his experiments with gliders. He made major developments in the gl...
common name for primitive, wingless insects of the family Lepismatidae. The silverfish, which has two long antennae and three long tail bristles, is n...