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Vittoria

(Encyclopedia) Vittoria, city (1991 pop. 55,280), SE Sicily, Italy; founded 1607. It is an important center of wine and olive oil production and export.

privet

(Encyclopedia) privetprivetprĭvˈĭt [key], any plant of the genus Ligustrum, Old World shrubs or small trees of the family Oleaceae (olive family), some of which are common as hedge plants. Privet…

Saint Oliver Plunket

The last Catholic martyr to die at Tyburn, he was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975 by Ann-Marie Imbornoni St. Oliver Plunket (1629–1681) Born in County Meath, Oliver Plunket went to Rome to be…

Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder I

Landholder IOliver Ellsworth5 November 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land. The writer of the following passed the first part of his life in mercantile employments, and by Industry and…

Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder V

Landholder VOliver EllsworthMonday, December 3, 1787Continuation of Remarks on the Hon. Elbridge Gerry's Objections to the new Constitution.To the Landholders and Farmers. It is unhappy both…

Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder X

Landholder XOliver EllsworthMonday, March 3, 1788To the Citizens of New Hampshire [20] The opposition in your state to the new federal constitution, is an event surprising to your New…

Dargan, Olive Tilford

Dargan, Olive Tilford[1869-1968](1)Born in Grayson County, Ky., and educated at the University of Nashville and at Radcliffe College. She became a teacher and was connected with various…

Brewer's: Olive Branches

Children of a parent. It is a Scripture term: “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine ... thy children like olive plants round about thy table” (Psalm cxxviii. 3.). Source: Dictionary of…

Oliver Hazard Perry

Oliver Hazard Perry joined the navy in his early teens, and by his early twenties he had been promoted to lieutenant. After he served in the Tripolitan War in the Mediterranean (1802-03) he returned…