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Arnold Joost van Keppel Albemarle, 1st earl of
Arnold Joost van Keppel Albemarle, 1st earl of , 1669-1718, Dutch adherent and constant companion of William III of England. He accompanied the future king to England (1688) and was made an earl in 1696. After William's death (1702), he returned to Dutch service and fought in the War of the Spanish ...
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Melchizedek
Melchizedek or Melchisedec [Heb.,=king of righteousness], in the Bible, king of Salem and "priest of the most high God." He blessed Abraham after the defeat of Chedorlaomer, and Abraham gave him tithes from the enemy's spoils. Later, Melchizedek is regarded as an eternal priest, typifying t...
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Henry Bennet Arlington, 1st earl of
Henry Bennet Arlington, 1st earl of 1618-85, English statesman. He fought for the royalists in the English civil war and, after going into exile, served as an envoy in Spain for the future Charles II . After the Restoration, Charles made him a secretary of state (1662), and he became one of the ki...
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Willard Huntington Wright
Willard Huntington Wright pseud. S. S. Van Dine, 1888-1939, American art critic and mystery story writer, b. Charlottesville, Va. He attended college in California and later studied art in Paris and Munich. Wright was literary critic for the Los Angeles Times and several periodicals and was e...
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Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker 1909-2005, American economist, b. Vienna, Austria. After receiving a doctorate in international and public law from Frankfurt Univ. (1931), Drucker was a financial writer for a German newspaper. In 1933 he moved to London, then to the United States (1937), where he became a ...
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Czartoryski
Czartoryski , Polish princely family. Although of ancient lineage, it rose to prominence only in the 17th cent., and in the 18th cent. during the reign of the Saxon kings of Poland it virtually ruled the country. Prince Michael Czartoryski, 1697-1773, was grand chancellor of Lithuania. His brother...
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Vandals
Vandals ancient Germanic tribe. They originated in N Jutland and, along with other Germanic peoples, settled in the valley of the Oder about the 5th cent. BC They appeared in Pannonia and Dacia in the 3d cent. AD, apparently under imperial aegis. In the early 5th cent., the Vandals began a migratio...
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Astana
Astana , formerly Aqmola or Akmola , city (1993 est. pop. 287,000), capital of Kazakhstan and Aqmola prov., in central Kazakhstan on the Ishim (Esil) River. Agricultural machinery and consumer goods are manufactured; there are also leather-tanning, food-processing, clothing and footwear, and ...
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , 1926-, French political leader, president of France (1974-81); b. Germany. A member of the national assembly at the age of 29, he was deputy finance minister (1959-62) and finance minister (1962-66) in Charles de Gaulle 's government. He held the latter post again ...
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Antoine Henri Jomini
Antoine Henri Jomini , 1779-1869, Swiss general and military writer. He organized (1799) the militia of the Helvetic Republic and after 1804 served as staff officer in the French army. In Aug., 1813, after a clash with Marshal Berthier, he defected to the enemy, joining the Russian army, in which a ...
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