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(Encyclopedia) James II, 1633–1701, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1685–88); second son of Charles I, brother and successor of Charles II.
James made an effort to restore himself by landing in Irel...
(Encyclopedia) Amsterdam
ămˈstərdămˌ, Dutch
ämstərdämˈ
[key], city (2021 pop. 1,157,519), constitutional capital and largest city of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands, Nort...
(Encyclopedia) furniture, properly such movables as chairs, tables, and beds; it is extended to include draperies, rugs, mirrors, lamps, and other furnishings. In its gradual evolution from periods of earliest civil...
(Encyclopedia) Bach, Johann Sebastian bäkh [key], 1685–1750, German composer and organist, b. Eisenach; one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world. He brought polyphonic baroque musi...
(Encyclopedia) Brittany brĭtˈənē [key], Breton Breiz, Fr. Bretagne, region and former province, NW France. It is a peninsula between the English Channel (N) and the Bay of Biscay (S) and comprises four departmen...
(Encyclopedia) Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron bīˈrən [key], 1788–1824, English poet and satirist.
Ranked with Shelley and Keats as one of the great Romantic poets, Byron became famous throughout E...
(Encyclopedia) Canadian literature, French, the body of literature of the French-speaking population of Canada.
Except for the narratives of French explorers (such as Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Esprit Radisson) ...
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Rulers of England and Great Britain(including dates of reign)
Saxons and Danes
House of Normandy
House of Blois
House of Plantagenet
House of Lancaster
House of York
House of Tudor
Ho...
(Encyclopedia) Bourbon bo͞orbôNˈ [key], European royal family, originally of France; a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty (see Capetians). One branch of the Bourbons occupies the modern Spanish throne, and othe...
(Encyclopedia) Chaucer, Geoffrey jĕfˈrē chôˈsər [key], c.1340–1400, English poet, one of the most important figures in English literature.
To Chaucer's final period, in which he achieved his fullest artist...