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101Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa — ▪ British physician born Jan. 21, 1840, Hastings, Sussex, Eng. died Jan. 7, 1912, Mark Cross British physician who successfully sought legislation (1876) permitting women in Britain to receive the M.D. degree and a license to practice… …
102Jan Baptista van Helmont — Jan Baptista van Helmont † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jan Baptista van Helmont Born at Brussels, 1577; died near Vilvorde, 30 December, 1644. This scientist, distinguished in the early annals of chemistry, belonged to a good Flemish… …
103Johann Alexander Brassicanus — Johann Alexander Brassicanus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Johann Alexander Brassicanus A German humanist, born probably at Cannstatt, 1500; died at Vienna, 25 November, 1539. He was a member of an ancient family of Constance, named Köl… …
104grad|u|ate — «verb. GRAJ u ayt; noun, adjective. GRAJ u iht», verb, at|ed, at|ing, noun, adjective. –v.i. 1. to finish a course of study at a school, college, or university and receive a diploma or paper saying so: »Her brother graduated from the university… …
105ZUKERTORT, JOHANNES — (1842–1888), chess grandmaster, chiefly in Britain. Zukertort was born in Lublin in 1842. He shrouded his early life in obscurity, but he was probably the son of a Jew who had been converted to Protestantism and acted as a conversionist… …
106Walter Mildmay — Sir Walter Mildmay (bef. 1523 ndash;31 May 1589) was an English statesman who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of England under Queen Elizabeth I.HistoryMildmay was the fourth and the youngest son of Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, by his wife …
107Thomas Dempster — (August 23, 1579 [But this date is disputed. Thomas said that he was one of 29 children and belonged to a set of triplets, which seems an impossibility and for which there is no other evidence. A modern Dempster, James, reasons, on a website… …
108Anthony Buckeridge — Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE (20 June 1912 ndash; 28 June 2004) was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children s books. He also wrote the 1953 children s book A Funny Thing Happened which was serialised… …
109Darren Shan — Born Darren O Shaughnessy 2 July 1972 (1972 07 02) (age 39) London, England Pen name Darren Shan, D. B. Shan Occupation Novelist Nationality …
110Lev Navrozov — (born 1928 in Moscow) is a Russian author, historian and polemicist and father of poet Andrei Navrozov. A leading translator of Russian texts into English under the Soviet regime, Navrozov emigrated to the United States in 1972, where he… …
