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Gardner, Isabella Stewart

(Encyclopedia) Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840–1924, American art collector, b. New York City. She lived in Boston following her marriage to the financier Jack Gardner. After the Civil War her home…

Long, Crawford Williamson

(Encyclopedia) Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815–78, American physician, b. Danielsville, Ga., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1839. He practiced in Jefferson, Ga. In 1842 he excised a tumor of the neck…

Isabella II

(Encyclopedia) Isabella II, 1830–1904, queen of Spain (1833–68), daughter of Ferdinand VII and of Maria Christina. Her uncle, Don Carlos, contested her succession under the Salic law, and thus the…

Andreini, Isabella Canali

(Encyclopedia) Andreini, Isabella CanaliAndreini, Isabella Canaliēˌzäbĕlˈlä ändrāēˈnē [key], 1562–1604, Italian actress. Beautiful, elegant, and well-educated, she was one of the most famous…

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford was the highest-paid and the most prominent American supermodel of the 1990s. As an actress she appeared in the movie Fair Game, and she is the former host of MTV's House of Style.…

Joan Crawford

Name at birth: Lucille Fay Le SueurJoan Crawford was a bubbly ingenue of silent films during the "flapper era" of the late 1920s. As her bubbly years passed she reinvented herself as a more glamorous…

Galion

(Encyclopedia) Galion Galion gălˈyən [key], city (2020 pop. 10,453), Crawford co., N central Ohio; inc. as a…

Meadville

(Encyclopedia) Meadville, city (1990 pop. 14,318), seat of Crawford co., NW Pa.; settled 1788, inc. 1866. It is an industrial city in a rich agricultural region. There is food processing and…

Carlists

(Encyclopedia) Carlists, partisans of Don Carlos (1788–1855) and his successors, who claimed the Spanish throne under the Salic law of succession, introduced (1713) by Philip V. The law (forced on…