Biography Category
1804–68, American merchant and banker, b. East Windsor (in the section now South Windsor), Conn. In 1822 he entered the shipping business with his b...
(v släf´ ny zh n´sk ) (KEY) , 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; brother of Bronislava Nijinska. Nijinsky is widely considered t...
(äl´fr d b rn´härd n b l´) (KEY) , 1833–96, Swedish chemist and inventor. Educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, he traveled as a youth and return...
(brôn ´sl v ny zh n´sk ) (KEY) , 1891–1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She studied at the Imperial Ball...
(n r ´y f) (KEY) , 1938–93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Peter...
(n th n´ l) (KEY) , in the New Testament, disciple mentioned only in St. John’s Gospel and plausibly identified with St. Bartholomew.
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