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Barante, Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de

(Encyclopedia) Barante, Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron deBarante, Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron deämäˈblə gēyōmˈ prôspĕrˈ brüzhyĕrˈ bärôNˈ də bäräNtˈ [key], 1782–1866, French…

De Smet, Pierre Jean

(Encyclopedia) De Smet, Pierre JeanDe Smet, Pierre Jeanpyĕr zhäN də smĕtˈ [key], 1801–73, Jesuit missionary in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, b. Belgium. He emigrated to the United States in 1821,…

De Pere

(Encyclopedia) De Pere De Pere dĭ pēr [key], city (2020 pop. 25,410), Brown co., E central Wis., on the Fox…

Louvois, François Michel Le Tellier, marquis de

(Encyclopedia) Louvois, François Michel Le Tellier, marquis deLouvois, François Michel Le Tellier, marquis defräNswäˈ mēshĕlˈ lə tĕlyāˈ märkēˈ də l&oomacr;vwäˈ [key], 1641–91, French statesman,…

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Born: 9/16/1950Birthplace: Keyser, W.Va.writer, critic, educator, activist Gates has used his position as one of the country's preeminent Black scholars to promote his theory of education reform,…

Île-de-France, region, France

(Encyclopedia) Île-de-FranceÎle-de-Franceēl-də-fräNs [key], region and former province, N central France, in the center of the Paris basin, a fertile depression where the Marne and Ouse rivers join…

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950–, American scholar and critic, b. Keyser, W.Va., B.A. Yale, 1973, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1979, where he studied with Wole Soyinka. Gates is an expert on African…

James DE LA MONTANYA, Congress, NY (1798-1849)

DE LA MONTANYA, James, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 20, 1798; resided in Haverstraw, Rockland County, N.Y.; supervisor of Haverstraw in 1832 and 1833; member of…