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1929–, American coloratura soprano, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. as Belle Silverman. Her childhood career as a radio singer led to voice studies with Estelle L...
1937–45, conflict between Japanese and Chinese forces for control of the Chinese mainland. The war sapped the Nationalist government’s strength wh...
(zhôz f´ zh r m´ l fräNs ´ d läläNd´) (KEY) , 1732–1807, French astronomer. Under the direction of the French Academy of Science, he went t...
Polycletus, or Polyclitus (p l kl ´t s, –kl ´–, –kl –) (KEY) , two Greek sculptors of the school of Argos. Polykleitos, the elder, fl. c.450...
1939–, Canadian-American molecular biologist, b. Montreal, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1967. A professor at Yale Univ. since 1971, he discovered that ...
1739–1823, American naturalist, b. Philadelphia; son of John Bartram. He is known chiefly for his Travels (1791), in which he describes his journey ...