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1925–, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, beg...
(hy m) (KEY) , 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734–37) in France, where he finished his first philo...
1890–1941, American jazz musician, composer, and band leader, originally named Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, b. Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as...
1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray’s Inn. He was the son of S...
(l ôN´ brün´shv k) (KEY) , 1869–1944, French philosopher, b. Paris. From 1909 until his death he taught at the Sorbonne. Brunschvicg’s philoso...
1617–88, English theologian and philosopher. He was a noted representative of the Cambridge Platonists. Cudworth’s most ambitious work, The True I...