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(Encyclopedia) Bleimor: see Calloc'h, Jean Pierre. ...

(Encyclopedia) Viaud, Julien: see Loti, Pierre. ...

(Encyclopedia) Grouès, Henri Antoine: see Pierre, Abbé. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hecker, Isaac Thomas, 1819–88, American Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers; son of Prussian immigrants. Feeling the general discontent of his day in the dying Puritanism of New En...

(Encyclopedia) Miquelon, French island: see Saint Pierre and Miquelon. ...

(Encyclopedia) Choderlos de Laclos: see Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pelée pəlāˈ [key], volcano, 4,429 ft (1,350 m) high, on N Martinique, in the West Indies. On May 8, 1902, the day after the eruption of Soufrière on St. Vincent, Pelée also erupted, engulfing Sa...

(Encyclopedia)  CE5 CE5 Canada kănˈədə [key], independent nation (2020 est. pop. 37,742,154), 3,851,787 sq mi ...

(Encyclopedia) Howe, Julia Ward, 1819–1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. Although unhappily married, she assisted her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, in his philanthropic projects and in ed...

(Encyclopedia) Friendly, Fred W., 1915–98, American broadcaster and author, b. New York City as Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer. He began his career at age 22 at a radio station in Providence where he wrote, produ...