Do you know Charlotte, Hans, and Alice? They are friends of your grandparents and parents. When you read about them, they'll become your friends, too.Alice Alice, an impressionable Victorian girl…
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ManitobaManitobamănĭtōˈbə [key], province (2001 pop. 1,119,583), 250,934 sq mi (650,930 sq km), including 39,215 sq mi (101,580 sq km) of water surface, W central Canada.…
(Encyclopedia) ColoradoColorado[1] kŏlərădˈə, –rădˈō, –räˈdō [2] kŏlərāˈdə, –räˈdə [key]. 1 Great river of the SW United States, 1,450 mi (2,334 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts. of N Colo., and…
(Encyclopedia) Progressive Conservative party, former Canadian political party, formed in 1942 by the merger of the Progressive and Conservative parties. Beginning with the first Canadian prime…
(Encyclopedia) Religion, Wars of, 1562–98, series of civil wars in France, also known as the Huguenot Wars.
The immediate issue was the French Protestants' struggle for freedom of worship and the…
(Encyclopedia) Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of, 1769–1852, British soldier and statesman.
Wellington, “the iron duke,” with the soldier's taste for discipline and order and the aristocrat…
