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(hôr´h ´säks) (KEY) , 1837–95, Colombian novelist. The son of a prosperous Englishman and a creole, Isaacs witnessed the ruin and premature de...
( ´z ks) (KEY) , 1855–1948, Australian jurist and political leader. He sat in the colonial legislature (1892–1901), became solicitor general (189...
1885–1948, British educator. After studying at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, she became a lecturer in early childhood education. A d...
or Isabella the Catholic, 1451–1504, Spanish queen of Castile and León (1474–1504), daughter of John II of Castile. In 1469 she married Ferdinand...
1296–1358, queen consort of Edward II of England, daughter of Philip IV of France. She married Edward in 1308. Neglected and mistreated by her husba...
(Isaac Angelus) ( n´j l s) (KEY) , d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1185–95, 1203–4). The great grandson of Alexius I, he was proclaimed emperor by th...