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(Encyclopedia)Heptameron: see Margaret of Navarre. ...Margaret Island
(Encyclopedia)Margaret Island: see Budapest, Hungary. ...Ossoli, Marchesa
(Encyclopedia)Ossoli, Marchesa: see Fuller, Margaret. ...Hoorn, Philip de Montmorency, count of
(Encyclopedia)Hoorn or Horn, Philip de Montmorency, count of both: hôrn [key], 1518?–1568, Netherlands nobleman, member of the council of state during the regency of Margaret of Parma. In 1562 he joined with the...Phenix City
(Encyclopedia)Phenix City fēˈnĭks [key], city (1990 pop. 25,312), a seat of Russell co., E Ala., on the Chattahoochee River opposite Columbus, Ga., in a cotton area; inc. 1883. Textiles are manufactured there. I...Cole, Margaret Isabel (Postgate)
(Encyclopedia)Cole, Margaret Isabel (Postgate): see Cole, George Douglas Howard. ...Brus, Louis
(Encyclopedia)Louis Brus, 1943– , b. Cleveland, Ohio, American chemist, studied at Rice University (B.S., 1965) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1969). He is Samuel ...Comyn, John (Black Comyn), d. c.1300, Scottish nobleman
(Encyclopedia)Comyn, John kŭmˈĭn [key], d. c.1300, Scottish nobleman, known as the Black Comyn. In 1286 he became one of the six regents for Margaret Maid of Norway and, as such, agreed to the treaty of 1290, by...Bourke-White, Margaret
(Encyclopedia)Bourke-White, Margaret bûrkˈ hwīt [key], 1904–71, American photo-journalist, b. New York City. One of the original staff photographers at Fortune, Life, and Time magazines, Bourke-White was noted...Margaret of Austria
(Encyclopedia)Margaret of Austria, 1480–1530, Hapsburg princess, regent of the Netherlands; daughter of Emperor Maximilian I. She was betrothed (1483) to the dauphin of France, later King Charles VIII, and was tr...Browse by Subject
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