(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) 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…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Wisconsin Member Name Birth-Death ADAMS, Henry Cullen 1850-1906 AMLIE, Thomas Ryum 1897-1973 ASPIN…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Alabama Member Name Birth-Death ABERCROMBIE, James 1795-1861 ABERCROMBIE, John William 1866-1940…
(Encyclopedia) North West Company, fur-trading organization in North America in the late 18th and early 19th cent.; it was composed of Montreal trading firms and fur traders.
After 1810 the rivalry…
(Encyclopedia) Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and…
(Encyclopedia) Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)Victoriaălˌĭgzăndrēˈnə [key], 1819–1901, queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). She was the daughter of Edward…
(Encyclopedia) Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of AssisiFrancis, Saint,əsēˈzē [key], 1182?–1226, founder of the Franciscans, one of the greatest Christian saints, b. Assisi, Umbria, Italy.
Two…
