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Ashburton, Alexander Baring, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Ashburton, Alexander Baring, 1st Baron: see Baring, family. ...

Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron: see Calvert, George. ...

Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron: see Buchan, John. ...

Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron: see Carleton, Guy. ...

Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Baron: see Lubbock, Sir John. ...

Northern Pacific Railway

(Encyclopedia)Northern Pacific Railway, former American rail line, following the northern route from Duluth and St. Paul, Minn., to Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Oreg. The Northern Pacific RR Company was chartered ...

Beatty, David Beatty, 1st Earl

(Encyclopedia)Beatty, David Beatty, 1st Earl bēˈtē [key], 1871–1936, British admiral. He served with distinction in Egypt and Sudan (1896–98) and in the Boxer Uprising (1900) in China. Made rear admiral in 1...

Rawlinson, Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Rawlinson, Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron, 1864–1925, British general; son of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. He served in the Myanmar expedition of 1886–87, in the Sudan campaign (1898), and i...

Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia)Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of , nŏtˈĭngəm [key], 1621–82, lord chancellor of England. He took no part in the politics of the English civil war, but in 1660 he entered Parliament and bec...

Varese

(Encyclopedia)Varese värāˈzā [key], city (1991 pop. 85,687), capital of Varese prov., Lombardy, N Italy, near the Swiss border. Situated in the Alpine foothills, near several Italian lakes, it is a popular tour...