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chartered companies

(Encyclopedia) chartered companies, associations for foreign trade, exploration, and colonization that came into existence with the formation of the European nation states and their overseas…

Strathclyde, University of

(Encyclopedia) Strathclyde, University of, at Glasgow, Scotland; founded 1796 as Anderson's Institution. In 1886 its name was changed to Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, and in 1956 it…

Logroño

(Encyclopedia) LogroñoLogroñolōgrōˈnyō [key], city (1990 pop. 121,911), capital of La Rioja autonomous community and prov., N Spain, in La Rioja, on the Ebro River. It is a farm-processing center…

Canada Company

(Encyclopedia) Canada Company, land settlement company chartered in England in 1826. It was initiated by the Scottish novelist John Galt, who proposed that Upper Canada (Ontario) sell government…

Runnymede

(Encyclopedia) Runnymede or RunnimedeRunnymederŭnˈĭmēd [key], meadow, in Egham, Surrey, S England, on the south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter…

New York, University of the State of

(Encyclopedia) New York, University of the State of, chartered 1784. It consists of all secondary and higher educational institutions incorporated in the state and other institutions, organizations,…

Padilla, Ezequiel

(Encyclopedia) Padilla, EzequielPadilla, Ezequielāsākyĕlˈp äᵺēˈyä [key], 1890–1971, Mexican political leader. A revolutionary under Pancho Villa, he studied law in New York City. He served as…

Malik, Charles Habib

(Encyclopedia) Malik, Charles Habib, 1906–87, Lebanese statesman and educator, grad. American Univ. of Beirut, 1927, Ph.D. Harvard, 1937. After teaching philosophy at the American Univ. of Beirut (…

Durant, Henry Fowle

(Encyclopedia) Durant, Henry FowleDurant, Henry Fowled&oobreve;răntˈ, dy&oobreve;– [key], 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles…

Schwyz

(Encyclopedia) SchwyzSchwyzshvēts [key], canton (1993 pop. 116,100), 351 sq mi (909 sq km), central Switzerland, one of the Four Forest Cantons. Bordering on the Lake of Zürich in the north and the…