Antônio de Castro Alves
Antônio de Castro Alves , 1847-71, Brazilian poet. A disciple of Victor Hugo, he came to fame with Espumas flutuantes [tossing spume] (1871). Despite a wild bohemian lifestyle, he was intensely nationalist and socially conscious. His best-known work, O navio negreiro [the slave ship], was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in Brazil and earned him the reputation as the "poet of the slaves."
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore c.1580-1632, colonizer. In 1606 he became private secretary...himself a Roman Catholic. The king then created him Baron Baltimore. Calvert had been a member of the Virginia Company and a member of the...
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George Calvert Baltimore, 1st Baron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Calvert Baltimore, 1st Baron see Calvert, George .
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George Calvert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Calvert The English statesman George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore (ca. 1580-1632), was the founder of the colony of Maryland in America. George Calvert was born in Yorkshire about 1580, the son of Leonard and Alice Crossland Calvert...
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Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Lord
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Lord ( c. 1580–...state from 1619 to 1625, Calvert relinquished office when...wife) charter gave the Baltimore family palatinate powers...Cecilius, the second baron, and Leonard, the first...
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Maryland
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
...quartered arms of the Calvert and Crossland...obverse: Lord Baltimore is seen as a...New Foundland, Baron of Baltimore." BIRD: Baltimore oriole. FISH...Labor Day, 1st Monday in September...is in Prince George's County...
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