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Viscount
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Waldemar Christofer Brogger
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Weaf
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Wilhelm Busch
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William Broome
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William Browne
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William Buckland
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William Bullock
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William Burke
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William Burnside
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William Butterfield
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William Byrd
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William Byrd_2
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William Cecil Burghley
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William Clive Bridgeman Bridgeman
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William Crary Brownell
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William Cullen Bryant
Bryant, William Cullen American Poet And Journalist, Was Born At Cummington, A Farming Village In The Hampshire Hills Of Western Mass., On Nov. 3, 1794. He Was The Second Son Of Peter Bryant, A Physician And Surgeon And A Man Of Scholarship. Peter Bryant Was The Great-grandson Of Stephen Bryant, ...
William De Braose
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William Evans Burton
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William George Browne
Browne, William George English Traveller, Was Born At Great Tower Hill, London, On July 25 5768, And Was Educated At Oriel College, Oxford. He Went Out To Egypt In 1792. In May 1793 He Set Out For Darfur By The Annual Cara Van. He Was Forcibly Detained By The Sultan ...
William Harvey Brown
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William Jennings Bryan
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William John Broderip
Broderip, William John English Naturalist, Was Born In Bristol And Became A Metropolitan Police Magistrate, First At The Thames Police Court And Then At West Minster. He Was One Of The Founders Of The Zoological Society Of London, And His Collection Of Shells Was Ultimately Bought By The British Museum. ...
William Keith Brooks
Brooks, William Keith American Zoologist, Was Born In Cleveland, 0., On March 25, 1848. He Graduated At Williams College In 1870 And Later Studied With Louis Agassiz (q.v.) At Harvard University (ph.d., 1875). In 1876 He Was Made Associate In Natural History At Johns Hopkins Univer Sity, Where He Became ...
Works
Works. Marruale Hebraicum Et Chaldaicum (1602 ; 7th Ed., 1658) ; Synagoga Judaica (1603 In German; Afterwards Enlarged And Trans Lated Into Latin) , A Valuable Repertory Of Information Regarding The Opinions And Ceremonies Of The Jews; Lexicon Hebraicum Et Chaldai Cum Cum Brevi Lexico Rabbinico Philosophico (1607 ; Reprinted ...