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(Encyclopedia) Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, U.S. military base, central N.J., SE of Trenton; est. 1917 as Camp Dix and named for U.S. statesman John A. Dix. In 1939 it was made a permanent garrison and renamed ...
(Encyclopedia) Jouvenel, Henry de äNrēˈ də zho͞ovənĕlˈ [key], 1876–1935, French statesman and journalist. Although from an early age influential in politics, he refused to join a party, claiming that exist...
(Encyclopedia) Hattin, Battle of hättēnˈ [key], battle on July 4, 1187, in N Palestine, where Saladin's Muslim forces defeated the Christian armies of Guy de Lusignan. When Saladin attacked Tiberias in July, 1187...
(Encyclopedia) Będzin
bĕnˈtsĭn
[key], town, Śląskie prov., SE Poland, on the Czarna
Przemsza River, a ...
(Encyclopedia) ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada...
(Encyclopedia) Rasles, Sébastien sābästyăNˈ räl [key], 1657?–1724, French Jesuit missionary in North America. Arriving in present-day Maine in 1689, he spent two years with the Abnaki in Acadia. He then beca...
(Encyclopedia) Spartacus spärˈtəkəs [key], d. 71 b.c., leader in an ancient Italian slave revolt, b. Thrace. He broke out (73 b.c.) of a gladiators' school at Capua and fled to Mt. Vesuvius, where many fugitives...
(Encyclopedia) Walden Pond, Mass.: see Thoreau, Henry David.
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(Encyclopedia) Adamson, Robert: see Hill, David Octavius.
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(Encyclopedia) Rei rēˈī [key], loyal adherent of David.