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Middlesex
Middlesex former county adjoining London, SE England. In 1965 the county was principally reorganized into the Greater London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Richmond upon Thames.... Read more |
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London
London capital of Great Britain, SE England, on both sides of the Thames River. Greater London (1991 pop. 6,378,600), c.620 sq mi (1,610 sq km), consists of the Corporation of the City of London (1991 pop. 4,000), usually called the City, plus 32 boroughs. The City is the old city of London and... Read more |
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Haringey
Haringey , inner borough (1991 pop. 187,300) of Greater London, SE England. It is primarily residential. Within the borough, Tottenham has furniture, light engineering, children's clothing, and printing industries. Bruce Castle in Tottenham, built in the 16th cent., houses a postal museum in honor... Read more |
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Highgate
Highgate residential area within Camden, Islington, and Haringey boroughs, London, England. The house where Francis Bacon died is in Highgate, and Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, and Karl Marx are buried in Highgate cemetery in Camden. Highgate School, a public school founded in 1565, is there.... Read more |
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Brent Eleigh
Eleigh, Brent & Eleigh, Monks Suffolk. Illanlege c.995, Illeleia 1086 (DB), Brendeylleye 1312, Monekesillegh 1304. ‘Woodland clearing of a man called *Illa’. OE pers. name + lēah. Affixes are from ME brend ‘burnt, destroyed by fire’ and OE munuc ‘a... Read more |
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Brent Pelham
Pelham, Brent, Pelham, Furneux, & Pelham, Stocking Herts. Peleham 1086 (DB), Barndepelham 1230, Pelham Furnelle 1240, Stokenepelham 1235. ‘Homestead or village of a man called *Pēola’. OE pers. name + hām. Distinguishing affixes from OE bærned ‘burnt,... Read more |
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Margaret Brent
Margaret Brent 1600?-1671?, early American feminist, b. Gloucester, England. With her two brothers and a sister, she left England to settle (1638) in St. Marys City, Md., where she acquired an extensive estate; she was the first woman in Maryland to hold land in her own right. Under the will of... Read more |
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Harrowing of Hell
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Social Protest
597. Social Protest Germinal portrays the sufferings of workers in the French mines. [Fr. Lit.: Zola Germinal ] Jungle, The novel exposed harrowing moral, economic, and hygienic conditions in the meat-packing industry. [Am. Lit.: Upton Sinclair The Jungle ] Tin Drum, The Grass’s... Read more |
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absolute value
absolute value magnitude of a number or other mathematical expression disregarding its sign; thus, the absolute value is positive, whether the original expression is positive or negative. In symbols, if &124; a &124; denotes the absolute value of a number a, then &124; a &124; = ... Read more |
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