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Bayard, James Asheton, 1767–1815, U.S. Representative and Senator from Delaware
(Encyclopedia)Bayard, James Asheton bīˈərd [key], 1767–1815, U.S. representative (1797–1803) and senator (1805–13) from Delaware, b. Philadelphia. Admitted to the bar in 1787, he began practice at Wilmingt...Tarahumara
(Encyclopedia)Tarahumara täräo͞omäˈrä [key], indigenous people of N Mexico, mostly in Chihuahua state. About 60,000 strong, they live for the most part in the barren wilderness of the Sierra Madre Occidental,...Bonanno, Joe
(Encyclopedia)Bonanno, Joe (Joseph Bonanno), 1905–2002, American crime boss nicknamed “Joe Bananas,” b. Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. He came to the United States illegally in 1924, settled in Brooklyn, an...Zamboanga
(Encyclopedia)Zamboanga sāmˌbōängˈgä [key], city (1990 pop. 442,345), Zamboanga del Sur prov., SW Mindanao, the Philippines, at the tip of the Zamboanga peninsula, on Basilan Strait. One of the chief cities o...Romero, Francisco
(Encyclopedia)Romero, Francisco fränsēsˈkō rōmāˈrō [key], 1891–1962, Argentine philosopher and essayist, b. Seville, Spain. One of the most prominent philosophers of Latin America, he was the leading repr...Baldovinetti, Alesso
(Encyclopedia)Baldovinetti, Alesso älāsˈsō bäldōvēnĕtˈtē [key], c.1425–1499, Italian painter and decorative artist of the early Florentine Renaissance. He was probably trained in the workshops of Domeni...Albornoz, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de
(Encyclopedia)Albornoz, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de hēl älˈvärĕth kärēˈlyō dā älbôrnôthˈ [key], 1310?–1367, Spanish and papal statesman and general, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Under Alfonso...Cimabue, Giovanni
(Encyclopedia)Cimabue, Giovanni jōvänˈnē chēmäbo͞oˈā [key], d. c.1302, Florentine painter, whose real name was Cenni di Pepo or Peppi. The works with which his name is associated constitute a transition in...Innocent VI
(Encyclopedia)Innocent VI, d. 1362, pope (1352–62), a Frenchman named Étienne Aubert; successor of Clement VI. He was a well-known jurist and was created cardinal in 1342. He lived at Avignon. He was one of the ...Mendele mocher sforim
(Encyclopedia)Mendele mocher sforim [Yid.,= Mendele the book peddler] shōˈləm yäˈkôv əbräməˈvĭch [key], 1836–1917, Yiddish novelist. Born in Minsk, and orphaned at 14, he traveled with beggars through ...Browse by Subject
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