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(Encyclopedia)Verulamium, England: see Saint Albans. ...Saint Lawrence, Gulf of
(Encyclopedia)Saint Lawrence, Gulf of, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.100,000 sq mi (259,000 sq km), SE Canada, extending c.250 mi (400 km) from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River to Newfoundland on the east. At i...Saint Austell
(Encyclopedia)Saint Austell sŭnt ôˈstəl; [key], town (1991 pop. 36,639), Cornwall, SW England, at the mouth of the Fowey River on St. Austell Bay. China clay (discovered there c.1755) is produced and exported, ...Ladislaus I, king of Hungary
(Encyclopedia)Ladislaus I or Saint Ladislaus lädˈĭslousˌ [key], 1040–95, king of Hungary (1077–95). He supported Pope Gregory VII against Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, but rejected Gregory's suggestion that ...Jørgensen, Jens Johannes
(Encyclopedia)Jørgensen, Jens Johannes yĕns yōhäˈnəs yörˈgənsən [key], 1866–1956, Danish poet and religious writer. He reacted against the naturalism of Georg Brandes and, in such works as Poems (1898),...Anguier, François
(Encyclopedia)Anguier, François fräNswäˈ äNgyāˈ [key], 1604–69, French sculptor. He is noted for the monuments of the Longuevilles and of Jacques Souvré (Louvre). His most ambitious work is probably the m...Cajetan, Saint
(Encyclopedia)Cajetan, Saint kăjˈətăn, käˌyātänˈ [key], 1480–1547, Italian churchman and reformer. Son of the count of Thiene, he studied civil and canon law, but abandoned work as a jurist at the papal ...Saint Martin's
(Encyclopedia)Saint Martin's, England: see Scilly Islands. ...Saint Mary's, island, Scilly Islands
(Encyclopedia)Saint Mary's, England: see Scilly Islands. ...Saint Mary's Island
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