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John Warwick DANIEL, Congress, VA (1842-1910)

Senate Years of Service: 1887-1910Party: DemocratDANIEL, John Warwick, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Lynchburg, Va., September 5, 1842; attended private schools,…

Lewis Fields LINN, Congress, MO (1796-1843)

Senate Years of Service: 1833-1843Party: Jacksonian; DemocratLINN, Lewis Fields, (brother-in-law of James Hugh Relfe, half-brother of Henry Dodge, uncle of Augustus Caesar Dodge), a Senator…

South Arabia, Federation of

(Encyclopedia) South Arabia, Federation of, federation, 1963–67, S Arabian peninsula, formed by the merger of the British colony of Aden with the Federation of the Emirates of the South, a British…

Alexander I, king of Scotland

(Encyclopedia) Alexander I, 1078?–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. He succeeded his brother Edgar, who had divided the kingdom so that Alexander…

Veneti, people of ancient Gaul

(Encyclopedia) VenetiVenetivĕnˈətī [key], Celtic people of ancient Gaul, who inhabited an area of NW France, now in Morbihan dept. Forming the most important of the Gallic maritime states, they…

Windsor, Wallis Warfield, duchess of

(Encyclopedia) Windsor, Wallis Warfield, duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield, duchess ofwĭnˈzər [key],1896–1986, American-born wife of Edward, duke of Windsor, who, as Edward VIII, abdicated the…

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

(Encyclopedia) Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), sometimes called Campbellites, a Protestant religious body founded early in the 19th cent. in the United States. Its primary thesis is that the…

Two Sicilies, kingdom of the

(Encyclopedia) Two Sicilies, kingdom of the. The name Two Sicilies was used in the Middle Ages to mean the kingdoms of Sicily and of Naples (see Sicily and Naples, kingdom of). Alfonso V of Aragón,…