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(Encyclopedia) New Britain, volcanic island (1990 pop. 315,649), c.14,600 sq mi (37,810 sq km), SW Pacific, largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago and part of Papua New Guinea, in which it forms two provinces (E...
(Encyclopedia) Matthews, Brander (James Brander Matthews), 1852–1929, American author and teacher, b. New Orleans. Matthews was a well-known figure in theatrical and literary circles in Paris and London as well as...
(Encyclopedia) Chaumonot, Joseph Marie zhôzĕfˈ märēˈ shōmônōˈ [key], 1611–93, French Jesuit missionary to the New World. He arrived in 1639 in Quebec. He worked first with Brébeuf among the Huron near G...
(Encyclopedia) Cushman, Pauline, 1835–93, Union spy in the Civil War, b. New Orleans. She became an actress at 18 in New York City. In 1863 she was banished to Confederate lines as a supposed Southern sympathizer,...
(Encyclopedia) New France: see Canada.
(Encyclopedia) New Archangel, Alaska: see Sitka.
(Encyclopedia) New Castile, Spain: see Castile.
(Encyclopedia) New Galicia: see Nueva Galicia.
(Encyclopedia) New Lanark, Scotland: see Lanark.
(Encyclopedia) New Sarum, England: see Salisbury.
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