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The Harry Potter Haiku Archive, Part III

Wizardry poetry from our readers! On to the Haiku Archive, Parts I, II, IV, V, VI, VII, and other kinds of Harry poems! All About Harry Haikus His eyes are green and filled…

Gospel

(Encyclopedia) Gospel [M.E.,=good news; evangel from Gr.,= good news], a written account of the life of Jesus. Though the Gospels of the New Testament are all anonymous, since the 2d cent. they have…

Channel Islands, British dependency

(Encyclopedia) Channel Islands, archipelago (2015 est. pop. 164,000), 75 sq mi (194 sq km), 10 mi (16 km) off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. The main islands are Jersey,…

East India Company, British

(Encyclopedia) East India Company, British, 1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch…

British Columbia, University of

(Encyclopedia) British Columbia, University of, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1908, opened 1915. It has faculties of arts, science, graduate…

British Indian Ocean Territory

(Encyclopedia) British Indian Ocean Territory, archipelago, c.1,180 mi (1,900 km), NE of Mauritius, in the central Indian Ocean. The more than 50 islands, which form the Chagos Archipelago and are…