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British Royalty - Royal Delivery

      Royal Delivery   The world watches and welcomes Prince William and Catherine's first born, a boy named George Alexander Louis.   Related Links Prince William and Kate…

Kuchuk Kainarji, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia) Kuchuk Kainarji, Treaty ofKuchuk Kainarji, Treaty ofk&oomacr;ch&oomacr;kˈ kīnärˈjē, Turk. küchükˈ kīˌnärjäˈ [key], 1774, peace treaty signed at the end of the first of the…

Elizabeth, czarina of Russia

(Encyclopedia) Elizabeth, 1709–62, czarina of Russia (1741–62), daughter of Peter I and Catherine I. She gained the throne by overthrowing the young czar, Ivan VI, and the regency of his mother, Anna…

Fathers of the Church

(Encyclopedia) Fathers of the Church, collective name for the Christian writers of early times whose work is considered generally orthodox. A convenient definition includes all such writers up to and…

Amboise, conspiracy of

(Encyclopedia) Amboise, conspiracy of, 1560, plot of the Huguenots (French Protestants) and the house of Bourbon to usurp the power of the Guise family, which virtually ruled France during the reign…

Farmer, Paul

(Encyclopedia) Farmer, Paul (Paul Edward Farmer), 1959–2022; American infectious disease doctor and medical anthropologist, b. North Adams, Mass., M.D…

Booth

(Encyclopedia) Booth, family prominent in the Salvation Army, founded by William Booth. His wife, Catherine Mumford Booth, 1829–90, whom he married in 1855, played a leading part in the foundation…

Albret

(Encyclopedia) AlbretAlbretälbrāˈ [key], former duchy, SW France, in the Landes of Gascony. The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre by the marriage (1484) of Jean d'Albret with Catherine…