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(Encyclopedia) Meredith, Owen: see Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert. ...

(Encyclopedia) Old Pretender: see Stuart, James Francis Edward. ...

(Encyclopedia) Black Prince: see Edward the Black Prince. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bonnie Prince Charlie: see Stuart, Charles Edward. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kienholz, Nancy Reddin: see under Kienholz, Edward. ...

(Encyclopedia) Champollion, Jean François –fēzhäkˈ [key], 1778–1867, was an archaeologist and paleographer, a professor of Greek at Grenoble, and a curator of manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale. He a...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry) äNtwänˈ-märēˈ-rôzhāˈ də săNtĕgzüpārēˈ [key], 1900–1944, French aviator and writer. He became a commercial pilot and...

(Encyclopedia) Llywelyn or Llewelyn ap Gruffydd hləwĕlˈĭn äp grĭfˈĭᵺ, lo͞oĕlˈĭn [key], d. 1282, Welsh prince, grandson of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. He succeeded (1246) his uncle, David II, as ruler of Nort...

(Encyclopedia) George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert), 1865–1936, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1910–36), second son and successor of Edward VII. At the age of 12 he commenced a naval career, but this en...

(Encyclopedia) George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52), second son of George V; successor of his elder brother, Edward VIII. He attended the ro...