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Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw was just 25 years old when he was killed leading a regiment of black soldiers into battle during the American Civil War. Shaw was born into a wealthy Boston family and attended…

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the most-read adventure novelists of the late 1800s and the author of Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Treasure Island (1883…

Sir Robert Peel

Robert Peel was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1834-35, and again from 1841-46. Peel entered politics in 1809 as a member of the House of Commons. Although he had fought against Catholic…

Guiscard

(Encyclopedia) Guiscard, Norman rulers in Sicily: see Robert Guiscard; Roger I.

Pelly

(Encyclopedia) Pelly, river, c.330 mi (530 km) long, rising W of the Mackenzie Mts., S central Yukon, Canada, and flowing generally northwest to join the Yukon River at Fort Selkirk. The Pelly…

Washington Island, United States

(Encyclopedia) Washington Island, c.20 sq mi (50 sq km), NE Wis., in NW Lake Michigan, just off the northern tip of the Door Peninsula. The island was visited by the French explorers Pierre Radisson…