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Sverdrup Islands

(Encyclopedia)Sverdrup Islands: see Queen Elizabeth Islands. ...

Kent, Maid of

(Encyclopedia)Kent, Maid of: see Barton, Elizabeth. ...

Sylva, Carmen

(Encyclopedia)Sylva, Carmen: see Elizabeth, queen of Romania. ...

Parry Islands

(Encyclopedia)Parry Islands: see Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada. ...

Carmen Sylva

(Encyclopedia)Carmen Sylva: see Elizabeth, queen of Romania. ...

Bess of Hardwick

(Encyclopedia)Bess of Hardwick: see Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of. ...

O'Neill, Shane

(Encyclopedia)O'Neill, Shane, 1530?–1567, Irish chieftain. The eldest son of Con O'Neill, 1st earl of Tyrone, he carried on a bitter feud with his father after Con accepted Henry VIII's nomination of Con's illegi...

Hilliard, Nicholas

(Encyclopedia)Hilliard, Nicholas, 1537–1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first true miniaturist in England, Hil...

Ennius, Quintus

(Encyclopedia)Ennius, Quintus kwĭnˈtəs ĕnˈēəs [key], 239–169? b.c., Latin poet, regarded by the Romans as the father of Latin poetry, b. Calabria. His birthplace was the meeting point of three civilization...

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