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  • 11O'Donoghue of the Glens — The O Donoghue of the Glens (Ó Donnchadha na nGleann), Prince of Glenflesk, is the hereditary chieftain of his sept of the Kerry Eóganacht. In 1944 his father was one of the few Chiefs of the Name recognized by Edward MacLysaght, the first Chief… …

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  • 12Pope, Alexander — (1688 1744)    Poet, was b. in London, of Roman Catholic parentage. His f. was a linen merchant, who m. as his second wife Edith Turner, a lady of respectable Yorkshire family, and of some fortune, made a competence, and retired to a small… …

    Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • 13Henry Raeburn — Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March, 1756 8 July, 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter.BiographyHe was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. Orphaned, he was supported by his older brother and… …

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  • 14Frederick W. V. Blees — Colonel Frederick Wm. V. Blees was a a Prussian immigrant who became a philanthropist, teacher, founder of Blees Military Academy, and the acknowledged chief benefactor of the City of Macon, Missouri. Blees was born in 1860 in Aix la Chapelle,… …

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  • 15Guise, Henri I de Lorraine, 3e duc de — ▪ French noble (3rd duke of),byname  Henry Of Guise, or The Scarred,  French  Henri De Guise, or Le Balafré  born Dec. 31, 1550 died Dec. 23, 1588, Blois, Fr.  popular duke of Guise, the acknowledged chief of the Catholic party and the Holy… …

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  • 16GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART —    statesman, orator, and scholar, born at Liverpool, son of a Liverpool merchant, sometime of Leith, and of Ann, daughter of Andrew Robertson, Stornoway; educated at Eton and Oxford; entered Parliament in 1832 as member for Newark in the Tory… …

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  • 17Colinsburgh —    COLINSBURGH, a market town, in the parish of Kilconquhar, district of St. Andrew s, county of Fife, 10 miles (S. by E.) from Cupar, and 28½ (N. E. by N.) from Edinburgh; containing 482 inhabitants. This place is pleasantly situated in the… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 18stateless societies — A general term which is often applied to acephalous or segmented societies, which lack a centralized state authority, but is occasionally (though incorrectly) extended to include those societies which have a political system based on an… …

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  • 19champion — n. 1. Defender, protector, vindicator (by arms). 2. Defender, protector, vindicator, promoter (by word and deed). 3. Hero, victor, winner, acknowledged chief, belt holder, challenger of all comers …

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  • 20Donald Moran — Chief Judge Donald Moran Born unknown, 1945 Kentucky Residence San Marco Nationality …

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