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Margaret of Navarre
(Encyclopedia)Margaret of Navarre äNgo͞olāmˈ [key], 1492–1549, queen consort of Navarre; sister of King Francis I of France. After the death of her first husband she married (1527) Henri d'Albret, king of Nav...Wilson, Jack
(Encyclopedia)Wilson, Jack: see Wovoka.Wilson's thrush
(Encyclopedia)Wilson's thrush: see thrush.Wilson, Richard
(Encyclopedia)Wilson, Richard, 1713?–1782, British landscape painter, b. Wales. He studied in London and achieved success as a portrait painter, but after a visit to Italy (c.1750–1756) he devoted himself to la...Wilson, Brian
(Encyclopedia) Wilson, Brian: see Beach Boys, The . ...Wilson Dam
(Encyclopedia)Wilson Dam: see Tennessee Valley Authority. ...Margaret of Angoulême
(Encyclopedia)Margaret of Angoulême: see Margaret of Navarre. ...Alacoque, Margaret Mary
(Encyclopedia)Alacoque, Margaret Mary: see Margaret Mary, Saint. ...Angoulême, Margaret of
(Encyclopedia)Angoulême, Margaret of or Marguerite d': see Margaret of Navarre. ...Drabble, Margaret
(Encyclopedia)Drabble, Margaret, 1939–, English novelist, b. Sheffield, Yorkshire; sister of A. S. Byatt. Drabble's rigorous and unsentimentally realistic vision of an England split between traditional values and...Browse by Subject
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