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Dumfries, town, Scotland
(Encyclopedia) Dumfries Dumfries dəmfrēsˈ [key], town, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, on the Nith River. The…Douglas, Sir James de, lord of Douglas
(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Sir James de, lord of Douglas, 1286?–1330, Scottish nobleman, called the Black Douglas and Douglas the Good; eldest son of William de Douglas, lord of Douglas. In the war of…Jenkins's Ear, War of
(Encyclopedia) Jenkins's Ear, War of, 1739–41, struggle between England and Spain. It grew out of the commercial rivalry of the two powers and led to involvement in the larger War of the Austrian…Ripley, Robert LeRoy
(Encyclopedia) Ripley, Robert LeRoy, 1890–1949, American cartoonist, b. Santa Rosa, Calif., as Leroy Robert Ripley. The creator of the Believe It or Not! newspaper cartoon, Ripley began his career at…Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron
(Encyclopedia) Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st BaronBaden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baronbāˈdən-pōˈəl [key], 1857–1941, British…Surtees, Robert Smith
(Encyclopedia) Surtees, Robert SmithSurtees, Robert Smithsûrˈtēz [key], 1803–64, English novelist. He created John Jorrocks, the sporting grocer, who appears in Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities (1838…Finley, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Finley, RobertFinley, Robertfĭnˈlē [key], 1772–1817, American clergyman, a founder of the American Colonization Society, b. Princeton, N.J. In 1787 he graduated from the College of New…Cockerell, Charles Robert
(Encyclopedia) Cockerell, Charles RobertCockerell, Charles Robertkŏkˈərəl [key], 1788–1863, English architect, archaeologist, and writer. While excavating at Bassae, Aegina, and other sites in Italy…Burton, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Burton, Robert, 1577–1640, English clergyman and scholar, b. Leicestershire, educated at Oxford. He served as librarian at Christ Church, Oxford, all his life; in addition he was vicar…Stern, Robert A. M.
(Encyclopedia) Stern, Robert A. M. (Robert Arthur Morton Stern), 1939–, American architect, b. New York City. He studied architecture at Yale Univ., became a practicing architect in the mid-1960s,…Trending
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