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Richard Evelyn Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957, American aviator and polar explorer, b. Winchester, Va. He took up aviation in 1917, and after World War I he gained great fame in the air. He commanded the naval air unit with the arctic expedition of D. B. MacMillan in 1925. He and Floyd Bennett reported their... Read more |
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Andre Rigaud
André Rigaud , 1761-1811, Haitian mulatto general in the wars that liberated Haiti. Educated, but vain, he believed in the superiority of mulattoes. He sought (1798-1800) unsuccessfully to wrest the leadership from Toussaint L'Ouverture . In 1802 he went to France, returned with General... Read more |
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Gerald Fitzgerald 9th earl of Kildare
Fitzgerald, Gerald, 9th earl of Kildare [I] (1487–1534). Fitzgerald's father built up a powerful position in Ireland, and served as deputy for many years, dying in 1513. Fitzgerald had been a hostage in England and was well known to Henry VIII, four years his junior. He was appointed to... Read more |
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Vladikavkaz
Vladikavkaz , city (1989 pop. 300,000), capital of North Ossetia-Alania, SE European Russia, on the Terek River and at the northern foot of the Caucasus. It is the starting point of the Georgian Military Road as well as an industrial center with an electric zinc smelter, lead and silver refineries,... Read more |
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Fleet Prison
Fleet Prison former jail in London, England. Rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, again after the great fire of 1666, and once more after the Gordon riots of 1780, it was finally demolished in 1845-46. After the 17th cent. it was notable as a debtors' prison. Fleet... Read more |
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Frederick Sleigh Roberts 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832–1914). Field marshal. Roberts first demonstrated his talents as an army officer during the Indian mutiny (1857–8). During the second Afghan war (1878–80) he defeated Ayub Khan's army at the battle of Kandahar and was created baron of Kandahar... Read more |
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Innocent IV
Innocent IV d. 1254, pope (1243-54), a Genoese named Sinibaldo Fieschi, a distinguished jurist who studied and later taught law at the Univ. of Bologna; successor of Celestine IV. He was of a noble family. Although he had been regarded as sympathetic to the empire, once pope he quickly took up the... Read more |
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blastopore
blastopore A mouth-like opening of the archenteron on the surface of an embryo in the gastrula stage. In many animals the blastopore becomes the anus, although in some it closes up at the end of gastrulation and may appear again at or near the same site. The blastopore is formed by an inward... Read more |
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wall knot
wall knot, a stopper knot on a rope to prevent anything passing beyond it (see illustration overleaf). The rope is unlayed to a distance of four or five times the circumference of the rope and the individual strands tucked over the strand behind and under the strand in front. They are then each... Read more |
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