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North Island

(Encyclopedia) North Island or Te Ika-a-Maui [Maori,=the fish of Maui] (1996 pop. 2,718,188), 44,702 sq mi (115,777 sq km), New Zealand. It is the smaller but more populous of the two principal…

Wheeling

(Encyclopedia) Wheeling. 1 Village (1990 pop. 29,911), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; founded c.1830, inc. 1894. Machinery, computer supplies, metal and paper products, security devices,…

Sydney, city, Australia

(Encyclopedia) Sydney, city (2016 pop. 208,374, Greater Sydney 2016 pop. 4,823,991), capital of New South Wales, SE Australia, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is Australia…

Famous Shakespearean Actors

From John Barrymore to Emma Thompson   Sir Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet Related Links Shakespeare on Film Royal Shakespeare Company Quiz: Shakespeare's Life and Times  …

Brewer's: Leilah

[Li-lah]. A beautiful young slave, the concubine of Hassan, Caliph of the Ottoman Empire. She falls in love with the Giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, and cast into…

New Caledonia

(Encyclopedia) New Caledonia, Fr. Nouvelle Calédonie, officially Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies, internally self-governing dependency of France (2015 est. pop. 269,000), land area 7,241…

Brewer's: Leicester Square

(London). So called from a family mansion of the Sydneys, Earls of Leicester, which stood on the north-east side. “The Earl of Leicester, father of Algernon Sidney the patriot ... built…

A History of Women in the U.S. Military

From Continental Army Soldier Deborah Samson to the first female Army Rangers, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, American women have been serving in the U.S. Military for hundreds…

2004 Deaths: G - L

GenevièveNicolai GhiaurovJoe GoldThomas GoldJerry GoldsmithOlivia GoldsmithSpalding GrayVirginia GreyUta HagenAnthony HechtSyd HoffGodfrey Newbold HounsfieldBart HowardUlrich InderbinenJ. J.…

Rutgers University

(Encyclopedia) Rutgers University, main campus at New Brunswick, N.J.; land-grant and state supported; coeducational except for Douglass College; chartered 1766 as Queen's College, opened 1771.…