(n) Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190), Syn. Frederick Barbarossa, Barbarossa
(n) king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786), Syn. Frederick the Great
(n) an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee, Syn. Battle of Fredericksburg
(n) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895), Syn. Frederick Douglass
(n) French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935), Syn. Alfred Dreyfus
(n) Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936), Syn. Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca
(n) an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001), Syn. Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle
(n) French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958), Syn. Jean-Frederic Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, Joliot-Curie
[韦格纳 / 韋格納, Wéi gé nàㄨㄟˊ ㄍㄜˊ ㄋㄚˋ] Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of continental drift; also written 魏格納|魏格纳, See Also: 魏格納, 魏格纳#243464