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Lanier
U.S. football player. Born in Clover, Va., he was selected to the Little All-America Team while at Morgan State Univ. An outstanding defensive player, he played middle linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs (1967-77). He helped the Chiefs defeat the favored Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV (1970) and was selected to eight consecutive Pro Bowls.


Napier
Scottish mathematician and champion of Protestantism. He divided his life between attacks on the Church of Rome and the pursuit of numerical calculations. On a number of occasions he urged James IV of Scotland to deal firmly with the Catholic threat. From 1594 he worked on developing secret weapons, incl. a metal chariot with small holes through which shot could be fired. He developed the concept of the logarithm to facilitate calculations involving multiplication, division, roots, and powers. He also introduced the decimal point as a notation for decimal fractions. The set of calculating rods he designed was a precursor to the slide rule.


Rapier
U.S. politician. Born in Florence, Ala., son of a slave and a wealthy planter, he was educated in Canada and Scotland. After the Civil War he returned to Alabama, where he became a successful cotton planter and a delegate to the state's first Republican convention. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1873, he worked for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 but was defeated for reelection. He returned to Alabama, where he was active as a labor organizer and publisher of the Montgomery Sentinel.


Salieri
Italian composer. He moved to Vienna in 1766 with Florian Gassmann (1729-1774), and remained there most of his career. On Gassmann's death, he became composer and conductor of the Italian opera at the imperial court, and later court kapellmeister (1788). Vienna's most popular opera composer for much of the last quarter of the 18th cent., he had many important students, incl. L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, and F. Liszt. In addition to his more than 40 operas, he wrote much other secular and sacred music. Though he and W. A. Mozart were rivals, there is no basis to the story that he poisoned Mozart, and it is unlikely that he claimed to have done so on his deathbed or earlier.


Wagner
Austrian architect and teacher. In 1893 his general plan (not executed) for Vienna won a major competition, and in 1894 he was appointed Academy professor. Among his notable works are a number of stations for the City Railway of Vienna (1894-97) and the Postal Savings Bank (1904-6). The latter, which had little decoration, is recognized as a milestone in the history of modern architecture, particularly for the curving glass roof of its central hall. Wagner's lectures were published in 1895 as Moderne Architektur.

German composer. His childhood was divided between Dresden and Leipzig, where he had first composition lessons; his teacher refused payment because of his ...

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