(Encyclopedia) Ray or Wray, John, 1627–1705, English naturalist. He was extremely influential in laying the foundations of systematic biology. With his pupil Francis Willughby, he planned a complete…
(Encyclopedia) ThalesThalesthāˈlēz [key], c.636–c.546 b.c., pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Miletus and reputed founder of the Milesian school of philosophy. He is the first recorded Western…
(Encyclopedia) Eleatic schoolEleatic schoolēlēătˈĭk [key], Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy. The group was founded in the early 5th cent. b.c. by…
(Encyclopedia) Ladysmith Black MambazoLadysmith Black Mambazomämbäzˈō [key], choral group formed in 1965 in Ladysmith, South Africa, founded and led (until 2014) by Joseph Shabalala (1941–2020). The…
(Encyclopedia) García Gutiérrez, AntonioGarcía Gutiérrez, Antonioäntōˈnyō gärthēˈä g&oomacr;tyārˈrĕth [key], 1813?–1884, Spanish romantic playwright. He was a soldier when his best-known play, El…
(Encyclopedia) Jude, Saint, or Saint Judas [Jude is an English form to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot], in the New Testament, one of the Twelve Apostles, also called Thaddaeus. He is thought to…
