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Mrs. Brown

Director: John Madden Writer: Jeremy Brock Director of Photography: Richard Greatrex Editor: Robin Sales Music: Stephen Warbeck Production Designer: Martin Childs…

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

June 2022 will mark the platinum jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II, marking 70 years since she became Queen. Very few monarchs get to celebrate a platinum jubilee, so what is the significance of…

Rivers and Lakes

Geography Quiz Country CapitalsContinentsMountainsRivers and Lakes FlagsOf the three rivers below, which is longest? MississippiDanubeAmazonLake Ontario is the source for which river? OhioSt.…

Spice Girls Biography

Spice Girlspop group This phenomenally successful girl group was formed in England in the mid-1990s when a group of housemates answered a newspaper ad. Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma…

Tall Sail Ships

Kruzenshtern, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, and Kaiwo Maru II by David Johnson   The Russian ship Kruzenshtern Kruzenshtern For sheer size, few ships can match the Russian…

Constable, John

(Encyclopedia) Constable, John, 1776–1837, English painter, b. Suffolk. Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent. Constable became famous for his…

Great Rift Valley

(Encyclopedia) Great Rift Valley, geological fault system of SW Asia and E Africa. It extends c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) from N Syria to central Mozambique. The northernmost extension runs S through Syria…

Great Zimbabwe

(Encyclopedia) Great ZimbabweGreat Zimbabwezĭmbäbˈwā [key] [Bantu,=stone houses], ruined city, SE Zimbabwe, near Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). Its mortarless, curving granite walls and buildings…

Hamsun, Knut

(Encyclopedia) Hamsun, KnutHamsun, Knutkən&oomacr;tˈ hämˈs&oobreve;n [key], 1859–1952, Norwegian author, a pioneer in the development of the modern novel. Virtually without formal education,…