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Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of

(Encyclopedia) Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier, b. Ditchley, Oxfordshire. Most notorious and dissolute of the Restoration rakes, he lost the favor of Charles II…

São Tomé and Principe

(Encyclopedia) CE5 São Tomé and PrincipeSão Tomé and PrincipesouN t&oobreve;mĕˈ, [key]São Tomé and Principeprēnˈsēpə [key], officially Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Principe, republic (…

Timor-Leste

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments Date of Information: 3/27/2012 Pres. Jose RAMOS-HORTA Prime Min. Kay Rala Xanana GUSMAO Vice Prime Min…

America's "Capitals of the World"

  Destination Bizarre   Great American claims to fame by John Gettings   Here is a closer look at ten of America's most interesting (…

Bulgarian literature

(Encyclopedia) Bulgarian literature. For early ecclesiastical writings, see Church Slavonic. Modern Bulgarian literature stems from the work of Father Paisi, who in 1762 began his history of the Slav…

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Lawrence, D. H.

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885–1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction. Lawrence believed that industrialized Western culture was…

bean

(Encyclopedia) bean, name applied to the seeds of leguminous trees and shrubs and to various leguminous plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) with edible seeds or seed pods (legumes). The…

horse

(Encyclopedia) CE5 General anatomy of a horse horse, hoofed, herbivorous mammal now represented by a single extant genus, Equus. The term horse commonly refers only to the domestic Equus caballus…