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(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth, 1900–2002, queen consort of George VI of Great Britain, mother of Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, b. London. She was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon until her marriage (1923). During the Bl...
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Galvanometer
galvanometer gălˌvənŏmˈətər [key], instrument used to determine the presence, direction, and strength of an electric current in a conductor. All galvanometers are based upo...
(Encyclopedia) Béziers
bāzyāˈ
[key], city, Hérault dept., S France, in Languedoc. A
communications and ...
(Encyclopedia) English, Bill (Simon William English), 1961–, New Zealand political leader. First elected to parliament in 1990, English held several ministerial positions and served as leader of the National party...
(Encyclopedia) Lovejoy, Elijah Parish, 1802–37, American abolitionist, b. Albion, Maine, grad. Waterville (now Colby) College, 1826, and later studied theology at Princeton. In 1833 he became editor of the Observe...
(Encyclopedia) Creighton, Mandell mănˈdəl krīˈtən [key], 1843–1901, British historian and churchman. He was professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge from 1884 until his appointment (1891) as bishop o...
(Encyclopedia) Simeon or Symeon both: sĭmˈēŏn [key], in the Bible. 1 Second son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the southernmost tribe of Israel. He and his tribe are seldom mentioned individually. 2 Devout ma...
(Encyclopedia) Nichols, Mike, 1931–2014,
American actor and director, b. Berlin, Germany, as Mikhail Igor
Peschkowsky. His family immigrated to the United States in ...
(Encyclopedia) Mayröcker, Friederike,
1924-2021, German-language poet, b. Vienna, Austria.
Mayröcker served in World War II as a secretary in the German airforce a...
(Encyclopedia) Caroline of Brunswick, 1768–1821, consort of George IV of England. The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, she married George (then prince of Wales) in 1795. She bore him one d...