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North Berwick
Language; Encyclopedias
A place on the S. shore of the Forth, in Haddingtonshire; a summer resort, specially for the golfing links.
Nicolas Boileau
Language; Encyclopedias
(Surnamed Despréaux, to distinguish him from his brother), poet and critic, born in Paris; brought up to the law, but devoted to letters, associating himself with La Fontaine, Racine, and Molière; ...
Mrs. Annie Besant
Language; Encyclopedias
Wood, born in London; of Irish descent; married to an English clergyman, from whom she was legally separated; took a keen interest in social questions and secularism; drifted into theosophy, of which ...
Nathaniel Bowditch
Language; Encyclopedias
American mathematician, born at Salem, Massachusetts; a practical scientist; published "Practical Navigation," translated the "Mécanique Céleste" of Laplace, accompanied with an elaborate commentary ...
Nicolas Beets
Language; Encyclopedias
A Dutch theologian and poet, born at Haarlem; came, as a poet, under the influence of Byronism; b. 1814.
Mount Brown
Language; Encyclopedias
At 16,000 ft., it's the highest of the Rocky Mts., in N. America.
