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Montserrat
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Montserrat An island in the Caribbean, one of the Leeward Islands. Visited by Columbus in 1493 and named after a Benedictine monastery on the mountain of Montserrat in Spain, it was colonized by Irish settlers in 1632. It was part of...
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Caballé, Montserrat
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Caballé, Montserrat ( b Barcelona, 1933). Sp. soprano. Concert début Barcelona 1954, opera début Basle 1956, First Lady...
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González, Julio
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...turned to welded metal as a material. His best-known work, Montserrat (1937, Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam), is a fairly naturalistic...commemorates the suffering of the people of Spain in the Civil War (Montserrat is Spain's holy mountain). More usually, however, his...
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West Indies, Federation of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla, St Lucia, and St Vincent...states’. All of them (except Anguilla and Montserrat) gained full independence by 1980.
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West Indies
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...Kitts (1623) and Barbados (1627), followed by Antigua and Montserrat (1632), Anguilla (1650), and the conquest of Jamaica...American Independence , the French and Spanish took Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts, St Vincent, and the Bahamas, but had to return...
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Ignatius Loyola, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...the Jesuits . Of noble Spanish family, he embarked on a military career, but was wounded in 1521. He hung up his sword at Montserrat . During a year at Manresa (1522–3), he underwent a series of spiritual experiences from which he derived many...
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country code
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
...Marshall Islands MK Macedonia ML Mali MM Myanmar MN Mongolia MO Macau MP Northern Mariana Islands MQ Martinique MR Mauritania MS Montserrat MT Malta MU Mauritius MV Maldives MW Malawi MX Mexico MY Malaysia MZ Mozambique NA Namibia NC New Caledonia NE Niger NF Norfolk...
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Ribera, Pedro Domingo de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...cited the Church of the Virgen del Puerto (1718—with octagonal interior and camarín ), the Church of Montserrat (1732–40), and the Palacio de Miraflores ( c. 1725), all in Madrid, and the massive bridge at Toledo...
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West Indies, British and French
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...as overseas territories: the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, and Montserrat. These five territories are each governed separately. The other islands comprising the former British West Indies achieved...
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Dombey, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Dombey, Joseph ( b . M â con, France, 22 February 1742; d . Montserrat, West Indies, 18 February 1794) medicine, botany . The tenth of the fourteen children of Jean-Philibert Dombey, a baker...
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