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Klaus Fuchs Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs The German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988) was one of the Soviet Union's most effective spies operating in Britain and the United States in the critical period during and after World War II. Fuchs revealed the American designs for the atomic bomb to a Soviet spy shortly after... Read more
Agricola Agricola
Agricola (Cneius Julius Agricola) , c.AD 40-AD 93, Roman general, conqueror of Britain. After a distinguished military and political career (partly in Britain), he was made consul (AD 77) and was governor (AD 78?-AD 85?) of Britain. He pacified most of the island, conquering North Wales and... Read more
Eastern Question Eastern Question
Eastern Question term designating the problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cent. The Turkish threat to Europe was checked by the Hapsburgs in the 16th cent., but the Ottoman Turks still controlled the Balkan Peninsula. With the... Read more
broad pennant broad pennant
broad pennant, a swallow-tailed pennant, flown from the masthead, and in most navies the distinguishing flag of a commodore. In Britain, until 1864, there were three qualities of broad pennants, red, white, and blue, indicating the commodores of the first, second, and third class and corresponding... Read more
Great Britain Great Britain
Great Britain officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. Technically, Great Britain comprises England... Read more
Science organizations Science organizations
Scientific Associations Source Venerable Institutions.The two most important American scientific organizations existing in 1815 were the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston. Most members of both... Read more
capitalism capitalism
capitalism economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, in which personal profit can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of labor. Capitalism is grounded in the concept of free enterprise, which argues that government intervention in the economy should... Read more
Nennius Nennius
Nennius , fl. 796, Welsh writer, to whom is ascribed the Historia Britonum. He lived on the borders of Mercia and probably was a pupil of Elbod, bishop of Bangor. The Historia is a compilation containing much on the early history of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon invasions. Although some scholars... Read more
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Alabama claims Alabama claims
Alabama claims claims made by the U.S. government against Great Britain for the damage inflicted on Northern merchant ships during the American Civil War by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers that had been built, fitted out, and otherwise aided by British interests. William H. Seward... Read more

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