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battleship

(Encyclopedia)battleship, large, armored warship equipped with the heaviest naval guns. The evolution of the battleship, from the ironclad warship of the mid-19th cent., received great impetus from the Civil War. B...

Trastevere

(Encyclopedia)Trastevere: see Renaissance and Modern Rome under Rome. ...

Coalville

(Encyclopedia)Coalville, town, Leicestershire, central England. Coalville is a modern town in the center of the Leicestershire coal field. Mining is prevalent, and ot...

Hove

(Encyclopedia)Hove hōv [key], city, East Sussex, SE England. It is a modern residential seaside resort. ...

Tyrconnell

(Encyclopedia)Tyrconnell, ancient kingdom in NW Ireland in what is the modern Co. Donegal. The kingdom was founded by Conall Gulban in the 5th cent.; kings of Tyrconnell reigned until 1071. ...

Cabul

(Encyclopedia)Cabul kāˈbəl [key], in the Bible, town, NW ancient Palestine, the modern Kabul, Israel. ...

Keene, Donald Lawrence

(Encyclopedia)Keene, Donald Lawrence, 1922–2019, American scholar and translator, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1949). During World War II, he worked as a Navy interpreter and intelligence of...

Macleod, John James Rickard

(Encyclopedia)Macleod, John James Rickard məkloudˈ [key], 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist, educated at Aberdeen and Leipzig. He was a professor at Western Reserve Univ. (1903–18) and at the Univ. of Toronto...

Hoysala

(Encyclopedia)Hoysala, dynasty of S India, c.1110–1326. It had its origins in the last half of the 11th cent., when Vinayaditya (1047–98) ruled an an area centered on Dorasamudra (modern Halebid, near Hassan), ...

Pecos National Historical Park

(Encyclopedia)Pecos National Historical Park, 6,671 acres (2,702 hectares), N New Mexico; est. as a national monument 1965, designated a national historical park 1990. The park contains the remains of the Pecos pue...