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(m s´k l n) (KEY) , 1732–1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed...
(s l r´ n, s –) (KEY) [from the Silures, ancient tribe of S Wales, where the period was first studied; named by the British geologist R. I. Murch...
1893–1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Living variously in Poland and Russ...
(m lr d´ ) (KEY) , 1786–1863, Irish genre painter. He began as a drawing master and an illustrator of children’s books. After 1809 he devoted him...
(n ´sm th) (KEY) , 1758–1840, Scottish landscape and portrait painter. His Stirling Castle (National Gall., London) is a good example of his simple...
1857–1900, American astronomer, b. La Salle, Ill. At the age of 21 he went on the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado to observe the solar ecli...