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(Encyclopedia) Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish, that part of the Low Countries that, from 1482 until 1794, remained under the control of the imperial house of Hapsburg. The area corresponds roughly to modern Belgi...
(Encyclopedia) Calhoun, John Caldwell kălˌho͞onˈ [key], 1782–1850, American statesman and political philosopher, b. near Abbeville, S.C., grad. Yale, 1804. He was an intellectual giant of political life in his...
(Encyclopedia) Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England.
Wordsworth's personality and poetry ...
(Encyclopedia) Edward I, 1239–1307, king of England (1272–1307), son of and successor to Henry III.
Even more important than Edward's military exploits were the legal and constitutional developments of his rei...
(Encyclopedia) photography, still, science and art of making permanent images on light-sensitive materials.
See also photographic processing; motion picture photography; motion pictures.
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Bahamas, the
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[key], officially Commonwealth of the Bahamas, independent nation (2020
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(Encyclopedia) espionage ĕsˈpēənäzhˌ [key], the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for ...
(Encyclopedia) Philip II, 1527–98, king of Spain (1556–98), king of Naples and Sicily (1554–98), and, as Philip I, king of Portugal (1580–98).
Philip was not the bloodthirsty tyrant portrayed by his enemi...
(Encyclopedia) Prime Ministers of Great Britain
1 The modern party system did not evolve until the end of the 18th cent.
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(Encyclopedia) Van Buren, Martin, 1782–1862, 8th President of the United States (1837–41), b. Kinderhook, Columbia co., N.Y.
He was again the presidential candidate of the Democratic party in 1840, but he was ...