Biography Category
(v s ´ly m kh ´l v ch g l vny n´) (KEY) , 1776–1831, Russian explorer and writer. Sent in 1807 to make a geographical survey of Kamchatka and th...
(v ´sk d g ´m , Port. väsh´k dä gä´m ) (KEY) , c.1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, the first European to journey by sea to India. His epoch...
1835–1901, American inventor, b. Barnesville, Ohio. He patented many electrical devices, most of them having to do with the telegraph. His telautogr...
(här´sh m, h v´ rsh m) (KEY) , 1834–1923, English topographer and geologist. An officer in the British army (1851–77), he was assigned to sever...
(g rn´r kh) (KEY) , 1922–85, American fashion designer, b. Vienna. In 1938, he fled to California, where he studied in Los Angeles. He worked as a ...
1844–1935, American army officer and arctic explorer, b. Newburyport, Mass. Entering the Union army at 17, he emerged a brevet major of volunteers a...