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Serkin, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Serkin, Peter: see under Serkin, Rudolf.

Elmo, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Elmo, Saint: see Peter Gonzalez, Saint.

Townshend, Peter Dennis Blanford

(Encyclopedia) Townshend, Peter Dennis Blanford : see WHO, THE .

Montfort, Simon de

(Encyclopedia) Montfort, Simon deMontfort, Simon demŏntˈfərt, Fr. môNfôrˈ [key], c.1160–1218, count of Montfort and earl of Leicester. A participant in the Fourth Crusade (1202–4), he did not join in…

Mazepa, Ivan

(Encyclopedia) Mazepa, IvanMazepa, Ivanēvänˈ məzyāˈpə [key], c.1640–1709, Cossack hetman [leader] in the Russian Ukraine. He was made hetman (1687) on the insistence of Prince Gallitzin, adviser to…

Sicilian Vespers

(Encyclopedia) Sicilian Vespers, in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at Palermo at the start…