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Defiance
Defiance city (1990 pop. 16,768), seat of Defiance co., NW Ohio, at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, in a farm area; settled 1790, inc. 1836. Its manufactures include machinery and food, fabricated-metal, and glass products. Gen. Anthony Wayne built Fort Defiance in 1794. Defianc...
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Rubicon
Rubicon , Lat. Rubico, small stream that flows into the Adriatic and in Roman times marked the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and ancient Italy. In 49 BC, after some hesitation, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon to march against Pompey in defiance of the senate's orders. He thus committed himself...
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George Clarence, duke of
George Clarence, duke of 1449-78, son of Richard, duke of York, and brother of Edward IV . In defiance of Edward, Clarence married Isabel Neville and joined her father, Richard Neville, earl of Warwick , in rebellion against the king in 1469-70. He deserted that party in 1471, however, and was re...
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Sir John Eliot
Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right ,...
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Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours , c.1000-1088?, French theologian, also called Bérenger and Berengarius, b. Tours. He was archdeacon of Angers (c.1040-1060). After studying at Chartres, he returned to Tours to become head of its cathedral school. Berengar is said to have denied the Real Presence in the Eu...
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bulldog
bulldog breed of thick-set nonsporting dog developed in the British Isles many centuries ago. It stands from 13 to 15 in. (33-38.1 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 40 to 50 lb (18.1-22.7 kg). Its short, straight, flat-lying coat is a glossy brindle, white, red, or fawn in color. The low-s...
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Cominform
Cominform [acronym for Communist Information Bureau], information agency organized in 1947 and dissolved in 1956. Its members were the Communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. The Cominform attempted to reestablish inf...
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Croghan, George
Croghan, George ˈkrō-ən (1791–1849) inspector general of the U.S. Army (1825–45), born near Louisville, Kentucky. Croghan fought at Tippecanoe (1811). In the War of 1812, he defended Fort Stephenson, in defiance of Gen. William Henry Harrison's orders to evacuate and...
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Lester G. Maddox
Lester G. Maddox 1915-, U.S. public official, governor of Georgia (1967-71), b. Atlanta. He achieved national notoriety in 1964 when he drove African Americans from his restaurant in defiance of federal civil-rights legislation and then closed the establishment rather than desegregate it. Elected (...
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Bohemond I
Bohemond I , c.1056-1111, prince of Antioch (1099-1111), a leader in the First Crusade (see Crusades ); elder son of Robert Guiscard . With his father he fought (1081-85) against the Byzantine emperor Alexius I . When his father's duchy of Apulia passed to his younger brother Roger, Bohemond made...
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