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Victoria, empress of Germany

(Encyclopedia) Victoria (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), 1840–1901, empress of Germany, daughter of Victoria of England. In 1858 she married the German crown prince (later Emperor Frederick III).…

Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey

(Encyclopedia) Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey, 1921–, English inorganic chemist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst Otto Fischer for their independent research on the organometallic…

Guelphs and Ghibellines

(Encyclopedia) Guelphs and GhibellinesGuelphs and Ghibellinesgwĕlfs, gĭbˈəlēnz, –lĭnz [key], opposing political factions in Germany and in Italy during the later Middle Ages. The names were used to…

Graham, Otto Everett, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Graham, Otto Everett, Jr., 1921–2003, American football player and coach, b. Waukegan, Ill. He was an All-American football and basketball player at Northwestern Univ. before he joined…

Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward

(Encyclopedia) Trevelyan, Sir Charles EdwardTrevelyan, Sir Charles Edwardtrĭvĕlˈyən [key], 1807–86, British colonial administrator. After a period of service in India, he returned (1838) to England…

Bamberger, Ludwig

(Encyclopedia) Bamberger, LudwigBamberger, Ludwigl&oomacr;tˈvĭkh bämˈbĕrgər [key], 1823–99, German economist, politician, and journalist. An ardent liberal, he took part in the Revolution of 1848…

Hill, Archibald Vivian

(Encyclopedia) Hill, Archibald Vivian, 1886–1977, British physiologist, B.A. Cambridge, 1909. Hill was a professor at Manchester Univ. (1920–23) and University College, London (1923–25) before…

Mavrokordatos, Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Mavrokordatos or Mavrocordatos, AlexanderMavrokordatos or Mavrocordatos, Alexanderboth: mävˌrôkôr-ᵺäˌtôs [key], 1791–1865, Greek patriot and statesman. He took an active part in the…