(Encyclopedia) Augier, Émile (Guillaume Victor Émile Augier)Augier, Émilegēyōmˈ vēktôrˈ āmēlˈ ōzhyāˈ [key], 1820–89, French dramatist. His plays, early examples of realism, satirize the social…
(Encyclopedia) Constitution of Athens, treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. b.c. It was lost until discovered on Egyptian papyrus in 1890. It is a history of…
(Encyclopedia) Desargues, GérardDesargues, Gérardzhārärˈ dəzärgˈ [key], 1591–1661, French mathematician and engineer, a founder of modern geometry. He discovered the theorems on involutions and…
(Encyclopedia) Festus (Sextus Pompeius Festus), fl. some time between a.d. 100 and 400, Roman lexicographer; his surviving work, On the Meaning of Words, is an abridgment of the lost glossary of…
(Encyclopedia) Enfield, town (2020 pop. 42,141), Hartford co., N Conn., on the Connecticut River at the Mass. line; settled c.1680. The town has varied…
(Encyclopedia) Tulare Lake, intermittent lake, in the Central Valley, central Calif. The Kings, Kaweah, and Kern rivers at one time flowed into the lake, but their waters have been diverted for…
(Encyclopedia) Fürst, JuliusFürst, Juliusy&oomacr;ˈly&oobreve;s fürst [key], 1805–73, German Orientalist. Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature of his time.…
(Encyclopedia) Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889–1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served as a trial lawyer for many years. About 1921 he began writing detective stories for…
