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Kincardine, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kincardine, former county, Scotland: see Kincardineshire. ...

Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland: see Kirkcudbrightshire. ...

Peebles, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Peebles, former county, Scotland: see Peeblesshire. ...

Perth, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Perth, former county, Scotland: see Perthshire. ...

Inverness, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Inverness, former county, Scotland: see Inverness-shire. ...

Kinross, former county, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Kinross, former county, Scotland: see Kinross-shire. ...

Smillie, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Smillie, Robert smīˈlē [key], 1857–1940, British labor official, b. Belfast, Ireland, of Scottish parents. He was president of the Scottish Miners' Federation from 1894 to 1918 and from 1921 unti...

Southey, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Southey, Robert souˈᵺē, sŭᵺˈē [key], 1774–1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a friendship with Coleridg...

Sargon, king of Akkad

(Encyclopedia)Sargon särˈgŏn [key], king of Akkad in Mesopotamia (reigned c.2340–c.2305 b.c.). By conquest he established a great empire that included the whole of Mesopotamia and extended over Syria and Elam,...

Frederick VIII, king of Denmark

(Encyclopedia)Frederick VIII, 1843–1912, king of Denmark (1906–12), son and successor of Christian IX. He fought in the war with Prussia in 1864 and always retained an interest in military affairs. He was succe...