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1) Cleves, duchy of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Cleves was the capital. A county from late Carolingian times, it acquired (late 14th cent.) the county of Mark, in Westphalia, and in 1417 was made a duchy. In 1521,...

2) Anne of Cleves. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Anne of Cleves, (klevz) (KEY) , 1515-57, fourth queen consort of Henry VIII of England. The sister of William, duke of Cleves, one of the most powerful of the German...

3) Cleves. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Cleves, see Kleves, Germany....

4) Kleve. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near the Dutch border. Tourism is important in the city, and its manufactures include foodstuffs, clothing, and chemical products....

5) Minuit, Peter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Wesel (then the duchy of Cleves). Sent by the Dutch West India Company to take charge of its holdings in America, Minuit purchased (1626) Manhattan from the Native...

6) Clootz, Anacharsis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French revolutionary, self-styled Orator of the Human Race. Born near Cleves and a member of the lesser German nobility, his given name was originally Jean Baptiste....

7) Berg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rhine River between the Ruhr and Sieg rivers. Dusseldorf was its chief city. A county in the 12th cent., Berg passed (1348) to the dukes of Julich and in 1380 was...

8) Julich, former duchy, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Julich was raised to a duchy in 1356, and in 1423 it was united with the county of Berg. After the extinction of the Julich line, both Julich and Berg passed (1521)...

9) Howard, Catherine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Henry VIII of England. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and the niece of the powerful Thomas Howard, 3d duke of Norfolk. Henry married her soon after his...

10) La Fayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French novelist of the classical period, whose chief work, La Princesse de Cleves (1678), is the first great French novel. The psychological realism of this story...

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