(Encyclopedia) Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the…
(Encyclopedia) Great Slave Lake, second largest lake of Canada, c.10,980 sq mi (28,400 sq km), Northwest Territories, named for the Slave (Dogrib), a tribe of Native Americans. It is c.300 mi (480 km…
(Encyclopedia) Great Wall of China, series of fortifications, c.3,890 mi (6,260 km) long (not including trenches and natural defensive barriers), winding across N China from Gansu prov. to Liaoning…
There's a whole world of comic books beyond Superman and the Peanuts. In recent years, more women have been working in this literary form and, not coincidentally, there are more interesting female…
(Encyclopedia) Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of AldwickCooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwickk&oomacr;ˈpər, k&oobreve;pˈər [key], 1890–1954, British statesman and…
(Encyclopedia) Great Salt Plains Dam, on Salt Fork, a tributary of the Arkansas River, NW Okla., near Enid. The dam was authorized in 1936 as a federal project and completed in 1941. In a salt-…
(Encyclopedia) Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: see under Nobel Prize; for a table of the winners of the prize, see Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in…
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Rulers of England and Great Britain(including dates of reign)
Saxons and Danes
Egbert, 802–39
Æthelwulf, son of Egbert, 839–58
Æthelbald, son of Æthelwulf, 858–60
Æthelbert,…
(Encyclopedia) Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount, 1865–1922, British journalist, b. Ireland. He was one of the most spectacular of popular journalists and newspaper publishers…
