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(g y m´ büd ´) (KEY) , 1467–1540, French humanist, b. Paris. Budé, known also by the Latinized form of his name, Budaeus, was a towering figure ...
(b nwä´ m n´d lbr ´´, Fr. mäNd lbrô´) (KEY) , 1924–, French mathematician, b. Warsaw, Poland. Largely self-taught and considered a maverick ...
(Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, b. London. Chaplin began on the music-hall s...
1829–94, English jurist and journalist; brother of Sir Leslie Stephen. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and was admitted to the bar in 1854. Af...
(Alfred Renton Bridges), 1901–90, American labor leader, b. Melbourne, Australia. Arriving (1920) as an immigrant seaman in San Francisco, he became...
1886–1946, American neurosurgeon. Having studied with Harvey Cushing at Johns Hopkins Univ., Dandy soon made himself a notable figure in the develop...