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Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett 1854-1932, Irish statesman and agricultural reformer. Educated in England, Plunkett spent 10 years (1879-89) in Wyoming as a cattle rancher. Returning to Ireland, he became an ardent exponent of farming cooperatives. His work was highly important in the face of the seriou...
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George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Marquess
George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Marquess , 1859-1925, British statesman. A member of the minor aristocracy, he attended Eton and Oxford. From his university days onward, he earned a reputation for an unusually high intelligence mingled with an enormous ego, snobbery, and pomposity. ...
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Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband 1863-1942, British explorer, b. India. He explored Manchuria in 1886. The following year he journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakorum range. Lord Curzon , the British viceroy in India, se...
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Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley , 1896-1980, British fascist leader. He entered (1918) Parliament as a Conservative, became (1922) an independent, and then joined (1924) the Labour party. He was junior minister in the Labour government of 1929 but resigned (1930) when the cabinet rejected his economic prop...
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener Kitchener, 1st Earl
Horatio Herbert Kitchener Kitchener, 1st Earl , 1850-1916, British field marshal and statesman. Trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1868-70), he had a brief period of service in the French army before being commissioned (1871) in the Royal Engineers. After duty in Palestine and Cyprus, ...
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Poland
Poland Pol. Polska, officially Republic of Poland, republic (2005 est. pop. 38,635,000), 120,725 sq mi (312,677 sq km), central Europe. It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea and the Kaliningrad region of Russia in the north, on Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine in the east, and on th...
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India
India officially Republic of India, republic (2005 est pop. 1,080,264,000), 1,261,810 sq mi (3,268,090 sq km), S Asia. The second most populous country in the world, it is also sometimes called Bharat, its ancient name. India's land frontier (c.9,500 mi/15,290 km long) stretches from the Arabian Se...
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