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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar 1717-90, British general. Appointed (1775) governor of Gibraltar, he was forced to defend it against a combined Spanish and French siege that lasted three and a half years (1779-83). For this memorable defense he was raised to the peerage in...
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Hecate
Hecate , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of ghosts and witchcraft. Originally she seems to have been an extremely powerful and benevolent goddess, identified with three other goddesses—Selene (in heaven), Artemis (on earth), and Persephone (in the underworld). From the three supposedl...
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Varus
Varus (Publius Quinctilius Varus) , d. AD 9, Roman general. In 13 BC he was consul with Tiberius Claudius Nero (later emperor as Tiberius ) and later was governor of Syria. Although unsuited for the position, he was appointed governor of Germany by Augustus . In AD 9, to suppress an uprising, he...
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Angelus
Angelus [Lat.,=angel], daily prayer of the Roman Catholic Church, said usually three times daily, as announced by a bell, traditionally at six in the morning, at noon, and at six in the evening. It is said in honor of the Incarnation and consists of three repetitions of the Hail Mary together with ...
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triangle
triangle in mathematics, plane figure bounded by three straight lines, the sides, which intersect at three points called the vertices. Any one of the sides may be considered the base of the triangle. The perpendicular distance from a base to the opposite vertex is called an altitude. The area of a ...
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Meshach
Meshach , one of the Three Young Men .
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Gallatin
Gallatin river, c.120 mi (190 km) long, rising in the Gallatin Range in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, NW Wyo., and flowing generally northwest to join the Madison and Jefferson rivers at the Three Forks of the Missouri, SW Mont. The river is used for irrigation.
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Tokelau
Tokelau formerly Union Islands, island group (2005 est. pop. 1,400), c.5 sq mi (c.12 sq km), S Pacific, a self-administering territory of New Zealand. It is composed of three small atolls, Atafu, Nukunono (the largest), and Fakaofo. Tokelau does not have a capital; each atoll has its own administra...
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George Stoneman
George Stoneman 1822-94, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Busti, N.Y. As commander of Fort Brown, Tex., in Feb., 1861, he refused to obey the order of General Twiggs to surrender to Texas authorities but evacuated the fort and sailed for the North with part of his command. He was made a ...
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Three Emperors' League
Three Emperors' League informal alliance among Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia, announced officially in 1872 on the occasion of the meeting of emperors Francis Joseph, William I, and Alexander II. The chief architects of the alliance were Julius Andrássy, Otto von Bismarck, and Prince G...
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