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South Yorkshire

(Encyclopedia)South Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Sheffield conurbation and comprised four metropolitan distr...

Cambridgeshire

(Encyclopedia)Cambridgeshire, county, 1,313 sq mi (3,402 sq km), E central England. The county seat is Cambridge. The county is divided into five administrative distr...

Worcester, Edward Somerset, 6th earl and 2d marquess of

(Encyclopedia)Worcester, Edward Somerset, 6th earl and 2d marquess of wo͝osˈtər [key], 1601?–1667, English soldier and inventor. Known as Lord Herbert after 1628, he received the title earl of Glamorgan in 164...

Catonsville

(Encyclopedia)Catonsville kāˈtənzvĭl [key], uninc. city (2020 pop. 41,547), Baltimore co., N Md., a suburb of ...

Cumbria

(Encyclopedia)Cumbria, county, 2,635 sq mi (6,826 sq km), extreme NW England. The county stretches from the Morecambe Bay to Soloway Firth along the Irish Sea coast. ...

Compromise of 1850

(Encyclopedia)Compromise of 1850. The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility betwee...

Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of

(Encyclopedia)Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of, c.1366–1399, English nobleman. He was created earl of Nottingham in 1383, and in 1385 he was made earl marshal of England for life. He joined Thomas of Woodstoc...

Morayshire

(Encyclopedia)Morayshire, former county, Scotland: see Moray. ...

Roxburgh

(Encyclopedia)Roxburgh, former county, Scotland: see Roxburghshire. ...

Glamorganshire

(Encyclopedia)Glamorganshire, former county, Wales: see Glamorgan. ...