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101Knox, John — born с 1514, near Haddington, East Lothian, Scot. died Nov. 24, 1472, Edinburgh Scottish clergyman, leader of the Scottish Reformation and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism. Probably trained for the priesthood at the University of St. Andrews,… …
102Letterman, David — born April 12, 1947, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S. U.S. television talk show host. He began his career as a stand up comedian and was a guest host of Johnny Carson s Tonight Show from 1979. He hosted NBC s post midnight Late Night with David Letterman …
103Luther, Martin — born Nov. 10, 1483, Eisleben, Saxony died Feb. 18, 1546, Eisleben German priest who sparked the Reformation. The son of a miner, he studied philosophy and law before entering an Augustinian monastery in 1505. He was ordained two years later and… …
104Pérez Galdós, Benito — born May 10, 1843, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain died Jan. 4, 1920, Madrid Spanish novelist. In the 1870s he began a cycle of 46 short historical novels, Episodios nacionales (1873–1912), that earned him comparison with Honoré de Balzac and… …
105Shelley, Percy Bysshe — born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng. died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany English Romantic poet. The heir to rich estates, Shelley was a rebellious youth who was expelled from Oxford in 1811 for refusing to admit… …
106Edward Storey — Born in 1930 at Whittlesey, which was then part of the Isle of Ely, Edward Storey is a true Fenman. Several generations of his family have lived and worked in the Fens, and he has always found inspiration for his writing in the Fen country and… …
107Adam, Robert — born July 3, 1728, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scot. died March 3, 1792, London, Eng. Scottish architect and designer. Son of the architect William Adam, he apprenticed in his father s offices. He traveled in Europe in 1754–58, studying architectural theory …
108Adams, Ansel — born Feb. 20, 1902, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died April 22, 1984, Carmel, Calif. U.S. photographer. In 1927 he published Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, photographs that imitated Impressionist painting by suppressing detail in favour of… …
109Apollonius of Perga — born с 240 BC, Perga, Anatolia died с 190 BC, Alexandria, Egypt Mathematician known as The Great Geometer. His Conics was one of the greatest scientific treatises of the ancient world. In it he introduced the terms parabola, ellipse, and… …
110Arsinoe II — born с 316 died July 270 BC Queen of Thrace (300–281) and Egypt (277–270). Daughter of Ptolemy I Soter, she married the king of Thrace (300) and tried to have her son made heir instead of Agathocles, the king s son by an earlier marriage.… …
