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New British Sculpture New British Sculpture
New British Sculpture. A term sometimes applied to the work of a loosely connected group of British sculptors who emerged in a series of exhibitions at the beginning of the 1980s, notably ‘Objects and Sculpture’ shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arnolfini Gallery,... Read more
Penzance Penzance
Penzance , town (1991 pop. 18,501), Cornwall, SW England, at the head of Mounts Bay. Penzance is a resort and a port for the Scilly Islands . It also has flour mills. Penzance Library houses a notable Cornish collection. The town was sacked by the Spanish in 1595 and until the 18th cent. was... Read more
Margaret Eleanor Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood 1939-, Canadian novelist and poet. Her writing treats contemporary issues, such as feminism, sexual politics, the fate of Canada and Canadian literature, and the intrusive nature of mass society. Her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale (1986), is set in a... Read more
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Jolly Roger Jolly Roger
Jolly Roger, the name popularly given to a flag flown by pirate ships as seen through the eyes of writers of piracy stories. It was supposed to be a white skull on a black ground, sometimes with crossed bones below the skull. There is, however, no evidence that such a flag was ever flown by a... Read more
treaty of Etaples treaty of Etaples
Étaples, treaty of, 1492. In October 1492 Henry VII led an expedition to France in support of the Bretons and to induce Charles VIII of France to repudiate Perkin Warbeck. He commenced a siege of Boulogne but the French offered terms which he accepted on 3 November. France was to pay... Read more
Blackbeard Blackbeard
Blackbeard d. 1718, English pirate. His name was probably Edward Teach, Thatch, or Thach. He probably began as a privateer in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), then turned pirate. In 1716-18 he preyed on shipping and coastal settlements of the West Indies and the Atlantic coast of North... Read more
Andrea Doria Andrea Doria
Andrea Doria , b. 1466 or 1468, d. 1560, Italian admiral and statesman, of an ancient family prominent in the history of Genoa . He started his career as a condottiere and in the Italian Wars fought for Francis I of France. In 1528 he fell out with Francis and went over to Charles V, Holy Roman... Read more
fyrd fyrd
fyrd. In theory all freemen of Anglo-Saxon England were under an obligation to serve in the fyrd (army) when called upon. In practice communications were so difficult, crises so sudden, piratical or Viking raids so mobile, and the problems of supply so acute that the national militia was rarely... Read more

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