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Jeanneret, Charles Édouard
(Encyclopedia)Jeanneret, Charles Édouard: see Le Corbusier. ...King Charles Land
(Encyclopedia)King Charles Land: see Kong Karls Land. ...Browne, Charles Farrar
(Encyclopedia)Browne, Charles Farrar: see Ward, Artemus. ...Alexander, Sir William
(Encyclopedia)Alexander, Sir William, d. 1640: see Stirling, William Alexander, earl of. ...Van Doren, Charles
(Encyclopedia)Van Doren, Charles: see under Van Doren, Mark. ...Grey, Sir Edward
(Encyclopedia)Grey, Sir Edward: see Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount. ...Conway, Sir Martin
(Encyclopedia)Conway, Sir Martin: see Conway of Allington, William Martin Conway, 1st Baron. ...Dyer, Sir Edward
(Encyclopedia)Dyer, Sir Edward, 1543?–1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is.” ...Banerjea, Sir Surendranath
(Encyclopedia)Banerjea, Sir Surendranath so͝orĕnˈdrənät bäˈnərjē [key], 1848–1926, Indian nationalist. One of the first Indians to join the Indian civil service, he was dismissed (1874) for a minor error...Gill, Sir David
(Encyclopedia)Gill, Sir David gĭl [key], 1843–1914, Scottish astronomer, educated at the Univ. of Aberdeen. He made observations of the transits of Venus and Mars and investigated the solar parallax. As astronom...Browse by Subject
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