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(j ´l n) (KEY) , d. 478 B.C., Greek Sicilian ruler. As tyrant of Gela, his native city, he interfered in the struggle for power in Syracuse (485 B.C....
(Francesco di Giorgio Martini) (fränch s´k d jôr´j ) (KEY) , 1439–1502, also called Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Italian engineer, architect,...
(gr n´f l) (KEY) , 1869–1926, English classical scholar and Egyptologist. With Arthur Surridge Hunt he discovered at Oxyrhynchus the Logia of Jesus...
1800–1880, English archaeologist and philologist. A founder of the Philological Society (1842), Guest wrote articles on English philology and on arc...
(g r´ ) (KEY) , 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Canada as Frank Owen Goldberg. He is widely considered one of the finest and most artful of ...
1915–, American anthropologist and linguist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (A.B., 1936) and Northwestern Univ. (Ph.D., 1940). He was a professor ...