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British Virgin Islands

Infoplease has everything you need to know about British Virgin Islands. Check out our country profile, full of essential information about British Virgin Islands's geography, history, government,…

Shipton, Mother

(Encyclopedia) Shipton, Mother, legendary English prophetess. She was first mentioned in an anonymous pamphlet, published in 1641, which described her as having prophesied various events of the reign…

British Indian Ocean Territory

Infoplease has everything you need to know about British Indian Ocean Territory. Check out our country profile, full of essential information about British Indian Ocean Territory's geography, history…

Wirt, William

(Encyclopedia) Wirt, WilliamWirt, Williamwûrt [key], 1772–1834, U.S. Attorney General and author, b. Bladensburg, Md. He had little formal schooling but was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1792. His…

A British Soldier

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Return to the C.S. Lewis Bio World War I broke out in 1914, just as Lewis was leaving school to be tutored privately by William Kirkpatrick, a family friend who had tutored…

Pearl, The

(Encyclopedia) Pearl, The, one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author…

limner

(Encyclopedia) limnerlimnerlĭmˈnər [key], the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward,…

Harkness, Edward Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Harkness, Edward Stephen, 1874–1940, American philanthropist, b. Cleveland. He inherited a fortune from his father, a partner of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. His extensive philanthropies,…

King Horn

(Encyclopedia) King Horn, probably the earliest English-language romance, written c.1250 and containing about 1,500 lines. It is by an anonymous author and is based on an earlier work in French.…