a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols


someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols


someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful


a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune


a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band)

they called themselves the Dixie Syncopators


one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions


an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods


a person in charge of managing and maintaining a computer system or telecommunication system (as for a business or institution)


a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding)


the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team

the right tackle is a straight A student


a football player who tackles the ball carrier


a person who is skilled at planning tactics


a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila


someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along


someone who appends or joins one thing to another

a theory that was simply added on by some anonymous tagger


someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter


a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements


(American football) the person who plays tailback


a driver who follows too closely behind another motor vehicle


a person whose occupation is making and altering garments


a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity


a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen


one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received


one who sells goods on the installment plan


an animal trainer who tames wild animals


someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach


the prime minister of the Irish Republic


a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes


someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire


a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads


a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly


a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)


(sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)


someone who imposes hard or continuous work


oewn-taster-n oewn-taste_tester-n oewn-taste-tester-n oewn-sampler-n

someone who samples food or drink for its quality


oewn-tattletale-n oewn-tattler-n oewn-taleteller-n oewn-talebearer-n oewn-telltale-n oewn-blabbermouth-n


an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it


oewn-tax_collector-n oewn-taxman-n oewn-exciseman-n oewn-collector_of_internal_revenue-n oewn-internal_revenue_agent-n

someone who collects taxes for the government


a woman employed to dance with patrons who pay a fee for each dance


a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display


oewn-taxidriver-n oewn-taximan-n oewn-cabdriver-n oewn-cabman-n oewn-cabby-n oewn-hack_driver-n oewn-hack-driver-n oewn-livery_driver-n


a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior


a graduate student with teaching responsibilities


it was his first start against his former teammates


someone who drives a truck as an occupation


the driver of a team of horses doing hauling


oewn-tease-n oewn-teaser-n oewn-annoyer-n oewn-vexer-n

someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)


a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing)


a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant in the air force or marines


someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process


someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique


an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group


a person who is enthusiastic about new technology


a person who dislikes or avoids new technology


a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes


someone who transmits messages by telegraph


oewn-telepathist-n oewn-thought-reader-n oewn-mental_telepathist-n oewn-mind_reader-n

someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly


someone who helps callers get the person they are calling


an evangelist who conducts services on television


oewn-television_reporter-n oewn-television_newscaster-n oewn-TV_reporter-n oewn-TV_newsman-n

someone who reports news stories via television


a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)


an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money


an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)


oewn-tellurian-n oewn-earthling-n oewn-earthman-n oewn-worldling-n


a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis


a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places


someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time


infant born at a gestational age between 37 and 42 completed weeks


someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent


a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)


a farmer who works land owned by someone else


an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)


someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis


a musician who plays the tenor saxophone


there are not many fourth termers in the Senate


nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit


oewn-terror-n oewn-brat-n-1 oewn-little_terror-n oewn-holy_terror-n


a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities


a woman who is pregnant for the third time


a driver who drives a motor vehicle to evaluate its performance


someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination)


a person who testifies or gives a deposition


a pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them


a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus


a specialist in the history of the Teutonic people or language (especially with respect to the Teutonic influence on the history of England)


a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier


a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land)


someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage


someone who produces theatrical performances


oewn-theologian-n oewn-theologist-n oewn-theologizer-n oewn-theologiser-n

someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology


oewn-theorist-n oewn-theoretician-n oewn-theorizer-n oewn-theoriser-n oewn-idealogue-n

someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)


a person skilled in a particular type of therapy


a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it


someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)


a person who is unusually thin and scrawny


(baseball) the person who plays third base


someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction


one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior


someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm)


a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn


(mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird


someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets


any one of two or more competitors who tie one another


(football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle


someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)


an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering


a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees


(sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed


one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage


formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living


a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts


an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend


someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities


one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)


a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury


a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention


someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture


the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet


a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles


a native or inhabitant of the island of Tobago in the West Indies


fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers


oewn-toddler-n oewn-yearling-n oewn-tot-n oewn-bambino-n

a young child who is just beginning to walk


informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person


oewn-tollkeeper-n oewn-tollman-n oewn-tollgatherer-n oewn-toll_collector-n oewn-toll_taker-n oewn-toll_agent-n oewn-toller-n


a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)


an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb


someone skilled in making or repairing tools


the leading comedian in a burlesque show


a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)


a worker who makes or adds the top to something


a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs


someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)


an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution


a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative


a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs


someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward)


an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government


a person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem


a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something


a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard


someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way


someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit


a comrade (especially in Russian communism)


a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort


(formerly) an official who made public announcements


townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller


resident of a college town not affiliated with the college


one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment


an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods


a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times')


oewn-trader-n oewn-bargainer-n oewn-dealer-n oewn-monger-n

someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold


a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic


an actor who specializes in tragic roles


a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies


an actress who specializes in tragic roles


someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees


the person responsible for driving a herd of cattle


one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion


oewn-trainman-n oewn-railroader-n oewn-railroad_man-n oewn-railwayman-n oewn-railway_man-n


someone who betrays his country by committing treason


someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations


one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy


someone who makes a written version of spoken material


someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation


someone who rewrites in a different script


someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another

the best student was a transfer from LSU


(law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed


(law) someone who conveys a title or property to another


a person who translates written messages from one language to another


a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell


a gardener who moves plants to new locations


a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex


a person who has undergone a sex change operation


someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex


someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)


member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence


a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap


someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers


oewn-traveling_salesman-n oewn-travelling_salesman-n oewn-commercial_traveler-n oewn-commercial_traveller-n oewn-roadman-n oewn-bagman-n

a salesman who travels to call on customers


the traversers slowly ascended the mountain


an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds


the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy


derogatory term for environmentalists who support restrictions on the logging industry and the preservation of forests


a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country)


a lawyer who specializes in defending clients before a court of law


(ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests


one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case


one who behaves lightly or not seriously


a mathematician specializing in trigonometry


singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali


one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy


(slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations


someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods


one of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome


a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working


a wife who is an attractive young woman; seldom the first wife of an affluent older man

his trophy wife was an asset to his business


radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution


oewn-troublemaker-n oewn-trouble_maker-n oewn-troubler-n oewn-mischief-maker-n oewn-bad_hat-n

someone who deliberately stirs up trouble


a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices)


one who is absent from school without permission


someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner


a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet


a federal agent who engages in trust busting


a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit


a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges


a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker


a member of the dynasty that ruled England


a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.


one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off


one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope


a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein


someone whose occupation is hunting turtles


someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle


someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner


either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy


someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing


someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else


any person who exercises power in a cruel way


in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it


an ugly or unpromising child who grows into a beautiful or worthy person


the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt


a source of help and advice and encouragement


a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates


a university student who has not yet received a first degree


a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government


a seller that sells at a lower price than others do

he went all over town looking for undersellers


an actor able to replace a regular performer when required


rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables


oewn-undoer-n oewn-opener-n oewn-unfastener-n oewn-untier-n

a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

children are talented undoers of their shoelaces


she awoke in the arms of her cruel undoer


an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead


a person who has normal vision in one eye and dichromacy in the other; very rare but very useful for experiments on color vision


someone authorized to transact every kind of business for the principal


a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types


an unidentified soldier whose body is honored as a memorial


belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India


oewn-upbraider-n oewn-reprover-n oewn-reproacher-n oewn-rebuker-n

someone who finds fault or imputes blame


an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor


a selfish actor who upstages the other actors


oewn-upstart-n oewn-parvenu-n oewn-nouveau-riche-n oewn-arriviste-n

a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class


a guerrilla who fights only in cities and towns


a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something


an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber


oewn-usurer-n oewn-loan_shark-n oewn-moneylender-n oewn-shylock-n

someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest


one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another


someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility


a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on


a baseball player valued for the ability to play at several positions


not all organisms are utilizers of oxygen


an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer

a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man


someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins


(legal terminology) the Latin word for wife


someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work


oewn-vagrant-n oewn-drifter-n oewn-floater-n oewn-vagabond-n oewn-clochard-n

a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support


a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes


the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement


a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day


oewn-valet-n oewn-valet_de_chambre-n oewn-gentleman-n oewn-gentleman-ap-s_gentleman-n oewn-man-n

a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer


weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health


a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley


someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions


someone who willfully destroys or defaces property


a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455


someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish


oewn-vassal-n oewn-liege-n oewn-liegeman-n oewn-liege_subject-n oewn-feudatory-n

a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord


an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole


eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products


a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas


a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products; may also avoid using animal products (e.g. leather)


someone who regards with deep respect or reverence


a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance


a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy


a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology)


a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)


a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies


oewn-very_important_person-n oewn-VIP-n oewn-high-up-n oewn-dignitary-n oewn-panjandrum-n oewn-high_muckamuck-n

an important or influential (and often overbearing) person


a man who is a member of a church vestry


a woman who is a member of a church vestry


oewn-veteran-n oewn-old-timer-n oewn-oldtimer-n oewn-old_hand-n oewn-warhorse-n oewn-old_stager-n oewn-stager-n

an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service


a person who has served in the armed forces


a serviceman who has seen considerable active service

the veterans laughed at the new recruits


oewn-veterinarian-n oewn-veterinary-n oewn-veterinary_surgeon-n oewn-vet-n

a doctor who practices veterinary medicine


a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman


(Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish


(Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel


a titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area


(Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop


an admiral ranking below a full admiral and above a rear admiral


one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman


a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor


someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy


an executive officer ranking immediately below a president; may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances


the vice president of the United States who presides over the United States Senate


governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign


an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance


I thought we were partners, not victim and victimizer


a combatant who is able to defeat rivals


a person who lived during the reign of Victoria


one who has lived in a village most of their life


a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately


the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction


a person who harvests grapes for making wine


a noisy or scolding or domineering woman


a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry


a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines


a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron


a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right


(in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count


a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France


a person with unusual powers of foresight


a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible


a nurse who is paid to visit the sick in their homes


a professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time


one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual


a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed


a biologist who cuts open live animals for research


a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire)


a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest)


he wanted to hear trained voices sing it


someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes


someone who plays the game of volleyball


(military) a person who freely enlists for service


a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses


a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity


a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult


one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service


(law) a person called into court to defend a title


someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement


someone who makes a solemn promise to do something or behave in a certain way


a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)


a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others


someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency


a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth)


someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner


a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of Richard Wagner


a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam

Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim


a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

street children beg or steal in order to survive


a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries


a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)


an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum


person who walks in without having an appointment

the emergency room was overrun with walk-ins


a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed


plays a small part in a dramatic production


usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing


a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid


fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs


oewn-wanderer-n oewn-roamer-n oewn-rover-n oewn-bird_of_passage-n

someone who leads a wandering unsettled life


a legendary Jew condemned to roam the world for mocking Jesus at the Crucifixion


an owner of many things and needer of none


a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song


a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast


an offender who violates international law during times of war


a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another


the chief official in charge of a prison


a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners


a workman who manages or works in a warehouse


a god worshipped as giving victory in war


supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak


a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given


a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States


someone engaged in or experienced in warfare


a man who operates an industrial washing machine


oewn-washwoman-n oewn-washerwoman-n oewn-laundrywoman-n oewn-laundress-n


someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently


a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste

she is the global watchdog for human rights abuses


a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body


an assistant who supplies drinking water


a person who enjoys being in or on the water


someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water


a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch


a pedestrian who walks from place to place


a person who is physically weak and ineffectual


a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory


a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky


a technician who designs or maintains a website


a reservist who fulfills the military obligation on weekends


a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done)


an official who weighs and records the weight


someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager


joins pieces of metal by welding them together


a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds


an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds


an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.


a native or inhabitant of the West Indies


a resident of the west side of Manhattan in New York City


oewn-wet_nurse-n oewn-wet-nurse-n oewn-wetnurse-n oewn-amah-n

a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else


a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process


a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales


someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses


someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing


the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling


someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels


a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike


a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War


a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories


oewn-whiner-n oewn-complainer-n oewn-moaner-n oewn-sniveller-n oewn-crybaby-n oewn-bellyacher-n oewn-grumbler-n oewn-squawker-n

a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining


a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline


huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds


someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous


a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling


an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it

the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on


a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous


a clown whose face is covered with white make-up


a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers


oewn-Dominican-n oewn-Black_Friar-n oewn-Blackfriar-n oewn-friar_preacher-n

a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order


a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order


a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders


one of the Roman Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine


someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field

this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy


someone who advocates a society in which white people live separately from members of other racial groups


a person who forces women to become prostitutes


a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme


someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)


oewn-whoremaster-n oewn-whoremonger-n oewn-john-n oewn-trick-n


a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried


a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried


a married woman; a man's partner in marriage


one who can't stay still (especially a child)

the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips


an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field


a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy


a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)


a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side


(football) the person who plays wingback


(RAF rank) one who is next below a group captain


the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation


a taster who evaluates the quality of wines


a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring


one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends


oewn-wise_guy-n oewn-smart_aleck-n oewn-wiseacre-n oewn-wisenheimer-n oewn-weisenheimer-n

an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments


term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

look here, junior, it's none of your business


someone who is believed to heal through magical powers


someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions


a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited


a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled


a contestant who withdraws from competition


a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics


an individualist who withdraws from social interaction


a person who restrains or checks or holds back


an opponent who resists with force or resolution


someone who sees an event and reports what happened


oewn-witness-n oewn-attestant-n oewn-attestor-n oewn-attestator-n

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature


(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law


an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it


a member of the Industrial Workers of the World


(offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia


oewn-wolf-n oewn-woman_chaser-n oewn-skirt_chaser-n oewn-masher-n

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women


a male person assumed to have been raised by wolves


an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

the woman kept house while the man hunted


a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man


a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them


a man who is unusually successful at an early age


someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something


a woman who can be a successful wife and have a professional career at the same time


a person who sorts wool into different grades


a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning


a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power


oewn-workman-n oewn-workingman-n oewn-working_man-n oewn-working_person-n

an employee who performs manual or industrial labor


a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world


oewn-worm-n oewn-louse-n oewn-insect-n oewn-dirt_ball-n

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect


oewn-worrier-n oewn-fuss-budget-n oewn-fusspot-n oewn-worrywart-n

thinks about unfortunate things that might happen


someone who admires too much to recognize faults


an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)

he told his story to some conservative worthies


someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job


someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements


combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground


someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)


a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters


writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)


a person who is able to write and has written something


a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College


one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift


an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)


a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks


member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence

A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City


a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)


a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard


(Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal


(Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant


in former times was free and cultivated his own land


officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch


a singer who changes register rapidly (popular in Swiss folk songs)


one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight


oewn-yokel-n oewn-rube-n oewn-hick-n oewn-yahoo-n oewn-hayseed-n oewn-bumpkin-n oewn-chawbacon-n

a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture


oewn-young_person-n oewn-youth-n oewn-younker-n oewn-spring_chicken-n

a young person (especially a young man or boy)


a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule


a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style


a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect


a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans


a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force


a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies


oewn-zombi-n oewn-zombie-n oewn-zombi_spirit-n oewn-zombie_spirit-n

(voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body


the chief person responsible for a zoological garden


a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals


Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976)


(Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf


United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)


French philosopher and theologian; lover of Heloise (1079-1142)


the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham


United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)


Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)


oewn-Adams-n oewn-John_Adams-n oewn-President_Adams-n oewn-President_John_Adams-n

2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)


oewn-Adams-n oewn-John_Quincy_Adams-n oewn-President_Adams-n oewn-President_John_Quincy_Adams-n

6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)


American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)


German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967)


oewn-Edgar_Adrian-n oewn-Adrian-n oewn-Edgar_Douglas_Adrian-n oewn-Baron_Adrian-n

English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1977)


Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)


Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)


United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)


Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)


Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC)


granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33)


wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero


according to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC)


United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931)


oewn-Akhenaton-n oewn-Akhenaten-n oewn-Ikhanaton-n oewn-Amenhotep_IV-n

early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)


king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)


United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976)


prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)


Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)


Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC)


ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC)


United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888)


king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)


oewn-Alexander_I_of_Russia-n oewn-Alexander_I-n oewn-Czar_Alexander_I-n oewn-Aleksandr_Pavlovich-n

the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825)


oewn-Alexander_II_of_Russia-n oewn-Alexander_II-n oewn-Czar_Alexander_II-n oewn-Alexander_the_Liberator-n

the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)


son of Alexander II who was czar of Russia (1845-1894)


oewn-Alexander_VI-n oewn-Pope_Alexander_VI-n oewn-Borgia-n oewn-Rodrigo_Borgia-n

Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503)


king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)


United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)


an Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021)


oewn-Alhazen-n oewn-Alhacen-n oewn-al-Haytham-n oewn-Ibn_al-Haytham-n oewn-Al-Hasan_ibn_al-Haytham-n

an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)


the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects


oewn-Ali-n oewn-Muhammad_Ali-n oewn-Cassius_Clay-n oewn-Cassius_Marcellus_Clay-n

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)


a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)


United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)


oewn-Allen-n oewn-Gracie_Allen-n oewn-Grace_Ethel_Cecile_Rosalie_Allen-n oewn-Gracie-n

United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)


Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921)


Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684)


(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)


Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)


a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)


a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)


a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)


a Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875)


United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)


United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)


oewn-Anderson-n oewn-Philip_Anderson-n oewn-Philip_Warren_Anderson-n oewn-Phil_Anderson-n

United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)


United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)


oewn-Andrew-n oewn-Saint_Andrew-n oewn-St._Andrew-n oewn-Saint_Andrew_the_Apostle-n

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland


United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)


Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter of James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)


French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987)


oewn-Anselm_of_Canterbury-n oewn-Anselm-n oewn-Saint_Anselm-n oewn-St._Anselm-n

an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God


oewn-Anthony-n oewn-Susan_Anthony-n oewn-Susan_B._Anthony-n oewn-Susan_Brownell_Anthony-n


(Christianity) the adversary of Christ (or Christianity) mentioned in the New Testament; the Antichrist will rule the world until overthrown by the Second Coming of Christ


oewn-Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus-n oewn-Antigonus-n oewn-Antigonus_Cyclops-n oewn-Monophthalmos-n

a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost one eye; killed in a battle at Ipsus (382-301 BC)


oewn-Antoninus-n oewn-Aurelius-n oewn-Marcus_Aurelius-n oewn-Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus-n oewn-Marcus_Annius_Verus-n

Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antoninus Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180)


Emperor of Rome; adoptive son of Hadrian (86-161)


oewn-Antony-n oewn-Anthony-n oewn-Mark_Antony-n oewn-Mark_Anthony-n oewn-Antonius-n oewn-Marcus_Antonius-n

Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)


French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)


English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)


oewn-Aquinas-n oewn-Thomas_Aquinas-n oewn-Saint_Thomas-n oewn-St._Thomas-n oewn-Saint_Thomas_Aquinas-n oewn-St._Thomas_Aquinas-n

(Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274)


Palestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004)


French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982)


Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)


United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)


an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC)


an ancient Greek astronomer who was one of the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe (circa 270 BC)


an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)


one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)


a Greek who was a Christian theologian active in Alexandria and who was declared a heretic for his doctrines about God (which came to be known as Arianism) (256?-336)


German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19)


oewn-Arminius-n oewn-Jacobus_Arminius-n oewn-Jacob_Harmensen-n oewn-Jakob_Hermandszoon-n

Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1560-1609)


United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)


United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)


United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)


English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)


Italian theologian who censured the worldly possessions of monks and the temporal power of bishops and was condemned for dogmatic errors by the Second Lateran Council (early 12th century)


Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)


Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)


king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC)


king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)


a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot


oewn-Arthur-n oewn-Chester_A._Arthur-n oewn-Chester_Alan_Arthur-n oewn-President_Arthur-n

elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)


Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)


oewn-Asch-n oewn-Sholem_Asch-n oewn-Shalom_Asch-n oewn-Sholom_Asch-n

United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957)


United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993)


king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)


United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)


United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987)


United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848)


oewn-Nancy_Astor-n oewn-Astor-n oewn-Nancy_Witcher_Astor-n oewn-Viscountess_Astor-n

British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964)


oewn-Ataturk-n oewn-Kemal_Ataturk-n oewn-Kemal_Pasha-n oewn-Mustafa_Kemal-n

Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)


oewn-Athanasius_of_Alexandria-n oewn-Athanasius-n oewn-Saint_Athanasius-n oewn-St._Athanasius-n oewn-Athanasius_the_Great-n

(Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)


the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)


oewn-Attila-n oewn-Attila_the_Hun-n oewn-Scourge_of_God-n oewn-Scourge_of_the_Gods-n

king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)


oewn-Attlee-n oewn-Clement_Attlee-n oewn-Clement_Richard_Attlee-n oewn-1st_Earl_Attlee-n

British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967)


United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973)


United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)


oewn-Augustine-n oewn-Saint_Augustine-n oewn-St._Augustine-n oewn-Augustine_of_Hippo-n

(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430)


oewn-Augustus-n oewn-Gaius_Octavianus-n oewn-Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Octavianus-n oewn-Octavian-n

Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14)


English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)


Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)


Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)


Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856)


German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)


oewn-Bacon-n oewn-Francis_Bacon-n oewn-Sir_Francis_Bacon-n oewn-Baron_Verulam-n oewn-1st_Baron_Verulam-n oewn-Viscount_St._Albans-n

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)


English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)


German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)


English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)


Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876)


United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983)


Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)


English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)


United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)


Spanish fashion designer known for his stark elegant designs (1895-1972)


oewn-Arthur_Balfour-n oewn-Balfour-n oewn-Arthur_James_Balfour-n oewn-1st_Earl_of_Balfour-n

English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)


United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)


(New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus, an Arabian scholar whose gift was myrrh


French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)


uninhibited United States actress (1903-1968)


English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)


English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)


oewn-Frederick_Banting-n oewn-Banting-n oewn-F._G._Banting-n oewn-Sir_Frederick_Grant_Banting-n

Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes (1891-1941)


United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)


Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936)


United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (1908-1991)


oewn-Alben_W._Barkley-n oewn-Barkley-n oewn-Alben_Barkley-n oewn-Alben_William_Barkley-n

United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956)


United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891)


oewn-Barrie-n oewn-James_Barrie-n oewn-J._M._Barrie-n oewn-James_Matthew_Barrie-n oewn-Sir_James_Matthew_Barrie-n

Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)


United States actor; husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)


oewn-Georgiana_Drew-n oewn-Barrymore-n oewn-Georgiana_Barrymore-n oewn-Georgiana_Emma_Barrymore-n

United States actress; daughter of John Drew and wife of Maurice Barrymore; mother of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1854-1893)


United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1878-1954)


United States actress; daughter of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1879-1959)


United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)


United States author of sometimes surrealistic stories (1931-1989)


French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor


Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629)


United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905)


oewn-Bartlett-n oewn-Robert_Bartlett-n oewn-Robert_Abram_Bartlett-n oewn-Captain_Bob-n

United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)


Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)


a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah


economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)


Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948)


oewn-Basil-n oewn-St._Basil-n oewn-Basil_of_Caesarea-n oewn-Basil_the_Great-n oewn-St._Basil_the_Great-n

(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)


(Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)


a French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867)


oewn-L._Frank_Baum-n oewn-Baum-n oewn-Frank_Baum-n oewn-Lyman_Frank_Brown-n

United States writer of children's books (1856-1919)


oewn-Bayard-n oewn-Seigneur_de_Bayard-n oewn-Chevalier_de_Bayard-n oewn-Pierre_Terrail-n oewn-Pierre_de_Terrail-n

French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)


English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)


United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)


English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)


United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853)


French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)


oewn-Max_Aitken-n oewn-Beaverbrook-n oewn-1st_Baron_Beaverbrook-n oewn-William_Maxwell_Aitken-n

British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)


oewn-Thomas_Becket-n oewn-Becket-n oewn-Thomas_a_Becket-n oewn-Saint_Thomas_a_Becket-n oewn-St._Thomas_a_Becket-n

(Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170)


a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989)


French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)


oewn-Bede-n oewn-Saint_Bede-n oewn-St._Bede-n oewn-Baeda-n oewn-Saint_Baeda-n oewn-St._Baeda-n oewn-Beda-n oewn-Saint_Beda-n oewn-St._Beda-n oewn-the_Venerable_Bede-n

(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)


United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)


English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)


German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)


Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)


German architect known for his simple utilitarian factory buildings (1868-1940)


Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians


United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)


English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)


a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)


oewn-Robert_Bellarmine-n oewn-Bellarmine-n oewn-Bellarmino-n oewn-Cardinal_Bellarmine-n oewn-Roberto_Francesco_Romolo_Bellarmine-n

Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)


English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953)


United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)


(Old Testament) Babylonian general and son of Nebuchadnezzar II; according to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)


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Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)


pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758)


pope who founded the Vatican service for prisoners of war during World War I (1854-1922)


United States anthropologist (1887-1948)


United States writer; brother of Stephen Vincent Benet (1886-1950)


United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)


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Israeli statesman (born in Poland) and active Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II; prime minister of Israel (1886-1973)


(Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel


United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)


United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974)


English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)


United States legislator who opposed the use of paper currency (1782-1858)


United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975)


Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)


Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918)


French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)


Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953)


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Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)


Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)


Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934)


United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)


French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)


French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)


Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)


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Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)


United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)


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United States baseball player (born 1925)


United States rock singer (born in 1931)


Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)


German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)


British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)


Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)


United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (1906-2005)


United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)


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British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)


British labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951)


United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914)


French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911)


Arab terrorist who established al-Qaeda (born in 1957)


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German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)


French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875)


popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)


British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)


Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)


British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953)


visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)


French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936)


British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)


United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964)


United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959)


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United States linguist who adopted a behavioristic approach to linguistics (1887-1949)


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Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819)


Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)


Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813)


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German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)


German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)


a Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524)


Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962)


the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1501-1536)


Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830)


Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases (1844-1906)


United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)


German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)


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(Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754)


pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303)


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United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)


English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864)


an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)


United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)


Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)


Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507)


Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519)


British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)


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Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons


Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)


Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510)


French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)


French composer of serial music (born in 1925)


United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838)


English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825)


United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)


Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)


United States writer of science fiction (born 1920)


United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)


United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II (1893-1981)


United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998)


poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)


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United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917)


United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896)


Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876)


Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)


German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)


French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)


great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514)


Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957)


German statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992)


French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)


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United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)


the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945)


German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)


United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981)


Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982)


United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)


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Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)


United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899)


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major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)


French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)


Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003)


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French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)


English novelist; oldest of three Bronte sisters (1816-1855)


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English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848)


English novelist; youngest of three Bronte sisters (1820-1849)


United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)


abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)


Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)


United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867)


English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)


English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)


English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)


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United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)


king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)


Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)


Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896)


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Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)


English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840)


Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446)


Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600)


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(Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101)


statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC)


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United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)


Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria); as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs; his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (1878-1965)


15th President of the United States (1791-1868)


German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917)


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United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)


United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)


Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938)


United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844)


a Lutheran theologian in Germany (1884-1976)


United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971)


German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)


English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)


English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)


United States horticulturist who developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables and flowers (1849-1926)


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United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995)


English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)


British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792)


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United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)


British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)


United States writer (born in England) remembered for her novels for children (1849-1924)


United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912)


United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996)


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United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)


United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836)


United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950)


United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)


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United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)


English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)


Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)


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English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)


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vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)


United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)


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43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)


44th President of the United States; first African-American President


American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)


English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)


English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900)


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explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)


English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)


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English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)


United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958)


Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)


son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)


conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)


United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922)


United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)


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Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795)


United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986)


United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)


Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681)


United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987)


Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12-41)


pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124)


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Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy (1378-1458)


Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977)


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Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)


Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987)


French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)


English writer born in Germany (1905-1994)


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king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)


Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938)


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United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)


Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1571-1610)


Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907)


Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639)


Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)


United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)


United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)


French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832)


United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)


French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)


United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911)


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English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)


United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)


United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)


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39th President of the United States (1924-)


Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)


French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)


English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)


outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921)


United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)


an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973)


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an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)


United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)


(New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus, an Indian scholar whose gift was gold


German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945)


prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC)


Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (1926-2016)


United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)


empress of Russia who succeeded her husband Peter the Great (1684-1727)


empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)


first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)


queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589)


Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC)


English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915)


British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)


English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491)


Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)


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Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)


French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)


French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985)


British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)


French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)


Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)


United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)


English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)


United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)


British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)


King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (941-996)


American psychologist and editor (1860-1944)


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American psychologist (born in England) who developed a broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate research (1905-1998)


French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)


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king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)


French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)


the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)


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son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)


King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)


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as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)


King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)


King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)


United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)


French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848)


English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)


United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927)


Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978)


United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982)


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Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)


Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842)


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suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)


conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)


French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)


Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)


a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779)


Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)


United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)


French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)


United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)


prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)


Christian martyr and patron saint of travellers (3rd century)


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British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)


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English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)


United States poet and critic (1916-1986)


a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)


painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)


Roman statesman regarded as a model of simple virtue; he twice was called to assume dictatorship of Rome and each time retired to his farm (519-430 BC)


Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-)


United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)


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United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)


United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)


Roman Emperor after his nephew Caligula was murdered; consolidated the Roman Empire and conquered southern Britain; was poisoned by his fourth wife Agrippina after her son Nero was named as Claudius' heir (10 BC to AD 54)


Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)


United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)


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United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1898-1978)


ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC)


French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)


United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)


Italian antipope from 1080 to 1100 who was installed as pope by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who consistently opposed efforts at papal reform (died in 1100)


Italian pope from 1523 to 1534 who broke with Henry VIII of England after Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn (1478-1534)


Italian pope from 1700 to 1721 who condemned Jansenist ideas on papal infallibility


Italian pope from 1769 to 1774 who lost whatever support remained of Catholic Europe, causing the church to fall into the hands of secular princes (1705-1774)


beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)


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22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)


American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)


United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)


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42nd President of the United States (1946-)


wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-)


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British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)


king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis' (466-511)


United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001)


Apache leader of the resistance to United States troops in Arizona (1812-1874)


United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)


British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)


French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)


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United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)


United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942)


German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants


French writer of novels about women (1873-1954)


English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)


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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)


United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)


United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)


French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study


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British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)


French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)