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Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow

(Encyclopedia) Warming, Johannes Eugenius BülowWarming, Johannes Eugenius Bülowyōhänˈəs ĕ&oobreve;gāˈnē&oobreve;s büˈlou värmˈĭng [key], 1841–1924, Danish botanist, a founder of the science…

Brewer's: Eugenius

This was John Hall Stephenson, author of Crazy Tales, a relative of Sterne. In Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eugenius is made the friend and wise counsellor of Yorick. Source: Dictionary of…

Toledo, University of

(Encyclopedia) Toledo, University of, at Toledo, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1872, opened 1875, and received its first municipal support in 1884. Its present name was adopted in 1940, and in 1967…

Toledo , city, United States

(Encyclopedia) ToledoToledotəlēˈdō [key], city (1990 pop. 332,943), seat of Lucas co., NW Ohio, on the Maumee River at its junction with Lake Erie; inc. 1837. With a natural harbor and its railroads…

Toledo Manrique, Alejandro

(Encyclopedia) Toledo Manrique, Alejandro, 1946–, Peruvian political leader, president of Peru (2001–6). Toledo, who has indigenous Andean roots, was born into poverty in rural Peru and grew up in…

Toledo , city, Spain

(Encyclopedia) Toledo, city (1990 pop. 60,671), capital of Toledo prov. and of Castile–La Mancha, central Spain, on a granite hill surrounded on three sides by a gorge of the Tagus River.…

Theodosius I

(Encyclopedia) Theodosius I or Theodosius the Great, 346?–395, Roman emperor of the East (379–95) and emperor of the West (394–95), son of Theodosius, the general of Valentinian I. He became (375)…

Brewer's: Toledo

Famous for its swords. “The temper of Toledan blades is such that they are sometimes packed in boxes, curled up like the mainsprings of watches”!! Both Livy and Polybius refer to them.…

Alejandro Toledo

Alejandro Toledo Man of the poor wins Peruvian presidency by Beth Rowen Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. (Source/AP) Related Links PeruAlberto K. FujimoriALEJANDRO TOLEDO was…