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Wolsey, Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Wolsey, Thomas wo͝olˈzē [key], 1473?–1530, English statesman and prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From 1514 to 1529 Wolsey virtually controlled domestic and foreign policy for th...Weelkes, Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Weelkes, Thomas, c.1575–1623, English composer. His four books of madrigals (1597–1600) mark Weelkes as one of the great English madrigalists. His music is remarkable for melodic characterization ...Cavendish, Thomas
(Encyclopedia)Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–92, English navigator. He commanded a ship in the flotilla under Sir Richard Grenville sent (1585) by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first colony in Virginia. In 1586, i...Buckhurst, Lord
(Encyclopedia)Buckhurst, Lord: see Sackville, Charles, and Sackville, Thomas. ...Pilgrims' Way
(Encyclopedia)Pilgrims' Way, ancient English road that ran from Hampshire to Kent, over the Sussex Downs. It is so called because it may have been used during the Middle Ages by pilgrims who came to Canterbury to t...Crestwood
(Encyclopedia)Crestwood, city (2020 pop. 11,808), St. Louis co., E central Mo., a suburb of St. Louis; inc. as a city 1949. Located in a truck-farming area, it is mos...Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is both a complex of buildings and the arts organizations that r...goat
(Encyclopedia)goat, ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheep. True wild goats, all of Old World origin, include the Persia...perennial
(Encyclopedia)perennial, any plant that under natural conditions lives for several to many growing seasons, as contrasted to an annual or a biennial. Botanically, the term perennial applies to both woody and herbac...May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
(Encyclopedia)May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough, 1815–86, English constitutional jurist and historian. A period of long service to Parliament, including his tenure (1871–86) as clerk of the House of Co...Browse by Subject
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