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Wayland Smith

(Encyclopedia)Wayland Smith, in English folklore, a skillful blacksmith and great armor maker, whose forge was near the White Horse (Oxfordshire). He appears in the Old English Beowulf and Deor and in Sir Walter Sc...

Rama IV, king of Siam

(Encyclopedia)Rama IV: see Mongkut.

Rama V, king of Siam

(Encyclopedia)Rama V: see Chulalongkorn.

Rama VII, king of Siam

(Encyclopedia)Rama VII: see Prajadhipok.

Rama IX, king of Thailand

(Encyclopedia)Rama IX: see Bhumibol Adulyadej. ...

Rama X, king of Thailand

(Encyclopedia)Rama X: see Maha Vajiralongkorn. ...

Charles I, king of Romania

(Encyclopedia)Charles I and Charles II, kings of Romania: see Carol I and Carol II. ...

Brown, John, Scottish essayist

(Encyclopedia)Brown, John, 1810–82, Scottish essayist. He was a physician. His writing was collected in Horae Subsecivae (3 vol., 1858–82), which included his unique picture of a dog, Rab and His Friends (1859)...

Scot, Michael

(Encyclopedia)Scot, Michael, c.1175–c.1234, medieval scholar, b. Scotland. He served as astrologer and physician at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, where with other scholars he translated Aristotle ...

Dryburgh Abbey

(Encyclopedia)Dryburgh Abbey drīˈbərə [key], Premonstratensian abbey, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the Tweed below Melrose. Founded in 1150, it was several times destroyed (1322 and 1545) and rebuilt and i...