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Q, English author

(Encyclopedia)Q: see Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. ...

Dorr's Rebellion

(Encyclopedia)Dorr's Rebellion: see Dorr, Thomas Wilson. ...

Fields, Annie Adams

(Encyclopedia)Fields, Annie Adams: see Fields, James Thomas. ...

Gresham's law

(Encyclopedia)Gresham's law: see under Gresham, Sir Thomas. ...

Canadian art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Canadian art and architecture, the various types and styles arts and structures produced in the geographic area that now constitutes Canada. For a discussion of the art of indigenous peoples of Canada...

investiture

(Encyclopedia)investiture, in feudalism, ceremony by which an overlord transferred a fief to a vassal or by which, in ecclesiastical law, an elected cleric received the pastoral ring and staff (the symbols of spiri...

Brotherhood of the New Life

(Encyclopedia)Brotherhood of the New Life: see Harris, Thomas Lake. ...

Charlottesville

(Encyclopedia)Charlottesville shärˈlətsvĭl [key], city (2020 pop. 46,553), seat of Albemarle co., central Va., on the ...

Grenville, Sir Richard

(Encyclopedia)Grenville, Sir Richard, 1542?–1591, English naval hero. His cousin, Sir Walter Raleigh, gave him command of the fleet of seven vessels carrying the first colonists to Roanoke Island in 1585. In 1591...

Malone, Dumas

(Encyclopedia)Malone, Dumas do͞omäˈ məlōnˈ [key], 1892–1986, American historian and editor, b. Coldwater, Miss. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1923 and was an instructor of history at Yale (1919–23) a...