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Doon Doon
Doon , river, c.30 mi (48 km) long, South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire, SW Scotland, flowing NW through Loch Doon (6 mi/9.7 km long) to the Firth of Clyde S of Ayr. Robert Burns celebrated its beauty in his poetry.... Read more
The Downs The Downs
The Downs roadstead, c.8 mi (13 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, between North Foreland and South Foreland, off Deal, Kent, SE England, in the English Channel. It is protected, except from strong south winds, by the Goodwin Sands and the coast. Two naval battles were fought nearby—between the... Read more
Francesco Landini Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini , c.1325-97, Italian composer. Although Landini was blinded from smallpox in childhood, he learned to play the lute, guitar, flute, and organ. His organ playing was highly regarded. Celebrated in his own day as a master of the Florentine ars nova style, among his works are... Read more
Tyrrhenian Sea Tyrrhenian Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea , Ital. Tirreno, part of the Mediterranean Sea, c.475 mi (760 km) long and from 60 to 300 mi (97-483 km) wide, between the Ligurian Sea, the Italian peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The Strait of Messina connects it with the Ionian Sea. The sea is named for the Tyrrhenoi... Read more
Valckenborch Valckenborch
Valckenborch. Family of Netherlandish landscape and genre painters, the most important members of which were Lucas I (c.1535–97) and his brother Marten I (1534–1612). Both of them began their careers in Malines and ended them in Frankfurt, where they ran a flourishing workshop... Read more
Jeffrey Amherst Amherst 1st Baron Jeffrey Amherst Amherst 1st Baron
Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron (1717–97). Amherst, a career soldier, was the son of a lawyer from Kent and advanced under the patronage of the Dorset family. He entered the army at an early age and was lieutenant-colonel by 28. After serving with distinction in the War of the Austrian... Read more
Alfred Pleasonton Alfred Pleasonton
Alfred Pleasonton 1824-97, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Washington, D.C. He served in the Mexican War and in the Indian wars on the frontier. In the Civil War , he distinguished himself in the Peninsular campaign (1862) and was made brigadier general of volunteers. He fought at... Read more
Zeebrugge Zeebrugge
Zeebrugge , outer port of Bruges (Brugge), West Flanders prov., NW Belgium, on the North Sea. Zeebrugge was developed c.1900 to replace the silted-up port of Bruges ; it is connected to Bruges by a 6-mi (9.7-km) canal (opened 1907). Zeebrugge has coke and glass factories and oil-storage facilities.... Read more
Castaway Castaway
97. Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] Bligh, Captain commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty ] Byam, Roger crew member of the Bounty cast onto... Read more
John Loughborough Pearson John Loughborough Pearson
Pearson, John Loughborough (1817–97). One of the most distinguished English Gothic Revival architects. He trained with Ignatius Bonomi and worked with Salvin and P. C. Hardwick before establishing his own practice (1843). At first influenced by A. W. N. Pugin, by the 1850s he began to... Read more

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