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Cuneo

(Encyclopedia) Cuneo Cuneo k&oomacr;ˈnāō [key], city, capital of Cuneo prov., Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Stura…

Bouvet Island

(Encyclopedia) Bouvet IslandBouvet Islandb&oomacr;vāˈ [key], uninhabited volcanic island, c.58 sq mi (150 sq km), S Atlantic Ocean, about 1,600 mi (2,576 km) SW of the Cape of Good Hope. A…

Roger of Loria

(Encyclopedia) Roger of Loria, c.1245–1304, Sicilian-Aragonese admiral. An adherent of Manfred, last Hohenstaufen king of Sicily, he left Sicily for Aragón after Manfred's defeat (1266) by the…

Ceuta

(Encyclopedia) Ceuta Ceuta thā&oomacr;ˈtä [key], autonomous city, c.7 sq mi (19 sq km), NW Africa, a possession of…

Jacobsen, Jens Peter

(Encyclopedia) Jacobsen, Jens PeterJacobsen, Jens Peteryĕns pāˈtər yäˈkôpsən [key], 1847–85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration in…

Vélez de Guevara, Luis

(Encyclopedia) Vélez de Guevara, LuisVélez de Guevara, Luisl&oomacr;ēsˈ vāˈlāth ᵺā gāväˈrä [key], 1579?–1644, Spanish playwright and novelist. He was a follower of Lope de Vega and wrote many…

Burke, John

(Encyclopedia) Burke, John, 1787–1848, Irish genealogist. He issued (1826) A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom. He published the guide…

poetry

(Encyclopedia) poetry. For lyric poetry, see ballad; elegy; hymn; lyric; ode; pastoral; sonnet. For narrative poetry, see chansons de geste; epic; idyl; romance. Dramatic poetry is incidentally…

Chalcedon

(Encyclopedia) ChalcedonChalcedonkălˈsĭdŏn, –dən, kălsēˈdən [key], ancient Greek city of Asia Minor, on the Bosporus. It was founded by Megara on the shore opposite Byzantium in 685 b.c. Taken by the…

Belitung

(Encyclopedia) Belitung Belitung bĕlēˈtŏng [key], island, 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km), Indonesia, in the Java Sea…