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(Encyclopedia) Lafayette, or La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de märēˈ zhôzĕfˈ pôl ēv rôk zhēlbĕrˈ dü môtyāˈ märkēˈ də läfāĕtˈ [key], 1757–1834, French gen...
(Encyclopedia) Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, 1842–1900, English composer, famous for a series of brilliant comic operas written in collaboration with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. As a boy he sang in the choir of ...
(Encyclopedia) Fargo, city (2020 pop. 125,990), seat
of Cass co., E N.Dak., at the head of navigation on the Red River, opposite
Moorhead, Minn.; inc. 1875. A railroad...
(Encyclopedia) Banaba
bənäˈbə
[key] or Ocean Island, island, 2.2 sq mi (5.7 sq km), central
Pacific, in ...
(Encyclopedia) Saint Paul, city (1990 pop. 272,235), state capital and seat of Ramsey co., E Minn., on bluffs along the Mississippi River, contiguous with Minneapolis, forming the Twin Cities metropolitan area; inc....
(Encyclopedia) Saginaw săgˈĭnô [key], city (1990 pop. 69,512), seat of Saginaw co., S Mich., on the Saginaw River, 15 mi (24 km) from its mouth on Saginaw Bay (an inlet of Lake Huron); settled 1816, inc. 1857. S...
(Encyclopedia) French, Daniel Chester, 1850–1931, American sculptor, b. Exeter, N.H., studied in Florence and in Boston with William Rimmer. After executing his first large work, The Minute Man (1875), he received...
(Encyclopedia) Carte, Richard D'Oyly doiˈlē kärt [key], 1844–1901, English impresario. His choice of presentations did much to raise the level of English musical theater. In 1875 he produced Trial by Jury, the ...
(Encyclopedia) Butaritari
māˈkĭn, mŭgˈĭn
[key], triangular atoll (4.5 sq mi/11.7 sq km), central Pacific, in the
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(Encyclopedia) MacInnes, Helen: see under Highet, Gilbert.
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