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(g r´ t p ´t r k ´p r) (KEY) , 1905–73, American astronomer, b. the Netherlands. Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary scienc...
1811–70, Scottish physician, M.D. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1832. He became (1839) professor of medicine and midwifery at Edinburgh. For a while he employ...
(älb r´t sän´t zh-dümôN´) (KEY) , 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut. The son of a wealthy coffee grower, he was a flamboyant bon vivant and live...
channel, 30 mi (48 km) long and 10 mi (16.1 km) wide, between Singapore island and the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia. It links the Strait of Malacca wit...
1792?–1860, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada (1821–56), b. Scotland. In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company to Canada, ...
(s nd) (KEY) , province (1998 pop. 29,991,161), c.50,000 sq mi (129,500 sq km), SE Pakistan, roughly coextensive with the lower Indus River valley and...