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1741–90, Holy Roman emperor (1765–90), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1780–90), son of Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, whom he suc...
1947–, British balloonist, b. Bristol. A former Royal Air Force pilot, he entered the world of ballooning in the 1980s, and in 1997 became an organi...
(j ´´s ´ts ) (KEY) , fl. 1425, Japanese landscape painter, teacher, and priest. His work shows the formal characteristics of Chinese suiboku-ga (bl...
(y s´t s y ´näs) (KEY) , 1493–1555, German Protestant reformer. In 1521, Jonas, then a professor at the Univ. of Erfurt, accompanied Martin Luthe...
1699–1752, colonial governor of North Carolina (1734–52). An efficient and popular Scot, he nevertheless had constant difficulties with the assemb...
(äNtwän´ äNr ´ zhôm n ´) (KEY) , 1779–1869, Swiss general and military writer. He organized (1799) the militia of the Helvetic Republic and a...