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- Rochelle, La
Rochelle, La, city (1990 pop. 73,744), capital of Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Bay of Biscay. Industries include naval, aircraft, and automobile construction. La Rochelle is the p...
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet
Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896–1955, American dramatist, b. New Rochelle, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1918. After serving in World War I, he wrote for Vanity Fair and Life, serving as editor of the lat...
- Quinn, Edmond Thomas
Quinn, Edmond Thomas, 1868–1929, American sculptor and painter, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with Thomas Eakins, and in Paris. His monumental work is ...
- Castle, Vernon, and Irene Foote
Castle, Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe) 1887–1918, and Irene Foote, 1893–1969, husband-and-wife dance team. Vernon Castle was an English dancer, who studied civil engineering before turning to t...
- Paine, Thomas
Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer, b. Thetford, Norfolk, England. The son of a working-class Quaker, he became an excise officer and was dismissed from the...
- Religion, Wars of
Religion, Wars of, 1562–98, series of civil wars in France, also known as the Huguenot Wars.The immediate issue was the French Protestants' struggle for freedom of worship and the right of est...
- integration
Integration, in U.S. history, the goal of an organized movement to break down the barriers of discrimination and segregation separating African Americans from the rest of American society. Rac...
- John, king of England
John, 1167–1216, king of England (1199–1216), son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king's youngest son, John was left out of Henry's original division of territory among his sons and ...
