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stereoscope
stereoscope , optical instrument that presents to a viewer two slightly differing pictures, one to each eye, to give the effect of depth. In normal vision the two eyes, being a certain distance apart, see slightly different aspects of a scene. The impression of depth is obtained when the brain combi... Read more
Emily Eden
Emily Eden 1797-1869, English novelist. She went with her brother George, Lord Auckland, to India when he was governor-general (1836-42). Her two novels, The Semi-detached House (1859) and The Semi-attached Couple (1860; with biographical introduction by Anthony Eden, 1947), give witty pictures... Read more
consul
consul title of the two chief magistrates of ancient Rome. The institution is supposed to have arisen with the expulsion of the kings, traditionally in 510 BC, and it was well established by the early 4th cent. BC The consuls led the troops, controlled the treasury, and were supreme in the governme... Read more
Arrian
Arrian (Flavius Arrianus) , fl. 2d cent. AD, Greek historian, philosopher, and general, b. Nicomedia in Bithynia. He was governor of Cappadocia under Emperor Hadrian and in AD 134 repulsed an invasion of the Alans. His chief work is the Anabasis, the prime extant source on Alexander the Great. M... Read more
Fort Garry
Fort Garry two trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, built on the present-day site of Winnipeg, Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. The first, Upper Fort Garry, was built in 1822 on the site of Fort Gibralter, a post of the North West Company from 1809 to 1816. I... Read more
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... Read more
First Council of Nicaea
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Thomas Edmund Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey 1902-71, American political figure, governor (1943-55) of New York, b. Owosso, Mich. Admitted (1925) to the bar, Dewey practiced law and in 1931 became chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. After briefly serving (1933) as U.S. attorney, he was appo... Read more
Uralic and Altaic languages
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Annapolis: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...the Anglican Royal Governor if they did not...militia, headed by Governor William Stone...battle between the two groups took place...1694 to the site of present-day Annapolis...people lived. Royal Governor Francis Nicholson...There in 1783 General George Washington...
Anthony Meuza Van Diemen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and merchant. As a governor general of the Dutch East...providing expeditions, two to northern Japan and environs and two to Australia, during the course of which present-day Tasmania (first...center. He also built two churches and introduced...
Charles de Menou Charnisay
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1650), was a governor of Acadia, a territory...Razilly was appointed governor of Acadia in 1632...not far from the present town of Bridgewater...as the effective governor of Acadia, though...title of lieutenant general in Acadia, with...war between the two rivals and endless...
Board of Pardons
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...recommend pardons to the governor. The membership...composed of the governor, chief justice...the state attorney general. Where a statute...officers (e.g., governor or secretary of...of a pardon and presents character witnesses...example, in Minnesota two of the three pardon...
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...along the coast of present-day Colombia...colony's interim governor and captain general. In the course...replace him as governor. But Balboa did...expedition or the new governor. On 1 September...doing by having two small ships built...
Jefferson City: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...in 1825, and the general assembly moved there...changed, and in 1832 Governor John Miller suggested...at the site of the present Capitol building...the city dock. For two years, the plague...trip between the two cities was a disaster...Booneville. But two days later, Union...
Johnson, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...Johnson was the first governor of Maryland. He...of the Maryland General Court from 1790...although he was not present in Philadelphia...Johnson led nearly two thousand men from...elected the first governor of Maryland, from...as Maryland's governor until 1779, when...
Robert Beverley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The History and Present State of Virginia...000 acres from two half brothers...him. He accused Governor Francis Nicholson...The History and Present State of Virginia...on John Smith's General History of Virginia...sympathetic account presents the Native Americans...The History and ...
Toledo: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...Four years later, General Anthony Wayne defeated...Timbers southwest of present-day Toledo. General...mile away, and the two were incorporated...resolve the dispute. Governor Robert Lucas of Ohio...the new plant. The two pioneers revolutionized...operations of its time. Two ...
Hancock, John
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Congress, and as governor of Massachusetts...born in Braintree (present-day Quincy...took him and her two other children to...election to the General Court of Massachusetts...elected as the first governor of the Commonwealth...He continued as governor until 1785, when...

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Address of the Continental Congress to Inhabitants of Canada (29 May 1775)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the command of General Richard Montgomery...merger between the two nations, and...commencement of the present plan for subjugating...introduction of your present form of government, or rather present form of tyranny...an avaritious governor and a rapacious...
North Dakota
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...European to reach present-day North Dakota...Discovery's subsequent two-year expedition...encompassing the two Dakotas and parts...day North Dakota. General Alfred Sully's...corrupt Republican governor of the Dakota Territory...for the creation of two separate states...
Ohio
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and 600 a.d. two groups of Mound Builders...both centered in present-day southern Ohio...Adena, first of the two, built thousands...when Virginia royal governor Lord Dunmore led...First, a territorial governor and other officials...executive authority. General Arthur St. Clair...
Virginia
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...occupied the present state of Virginia...an appointed governor and council...appointed the governor and council...developed into a two-house legislature known as the General Assembly. The...encroachments from the governor or the crown...
New Netherland
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...navigated as far north as present-day Albany. Following...as did each of the two islands set at the...and Nut Island (Governor's Island.) Willem...first director-general that the island was...Kieft, the director general who had replaced...certain that the States General and the ...
Immigration Restriction
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...movement, elected eight governors, more than a hundred...that continues to the present. That era can be divided into two parts. The first...narrowed and widened. General Immigration Restrictions...August 1882, the first general immigration law set...
Paul, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Sanhedrin and the Roman governor in Caesarea and two years’ imprisonment...in AD 60, and spent two further years under house...well as Jews from the present evil age by transferring...and beginning of the general resurrection inaugurating...
Lucretius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...praetor in 58 B.C. and later governor of Bithynia. The poem is written...writings of Epicurus and with the general picture of Epicurus ’...noticeable. Lucretius devoted two whole books, set in the middle...unlimited number of cosmoi, past, present, and future. The single Aristotelian...
Pirogov, Nikolay Ivanovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...years at the university he was present at only two operations and did not perform...Nevertheless, he received a good general theoretical preparation. After...He came into conflict with the governor-general of Odessa and in 1858 was transferred...
Pakistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...oil, which is also present in the Punjab. Economy...new state's first governor-general. The country's...resentment. The two wings of Pakistan...1970 the first ever general election brought...executed. The regime of General ZIA UL-HAQ (1977...

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