91) Lane, Sir Ralph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the first attempted English settlement in America, on Roanoke Island, N.C. Sent by Sir Walter Raleigh, the expedition of over 100 colonists left England in Apr.,...
92) Rapallo, Treaty of, 1922. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...1922, 1922, agreement signed by Germany and the USSR at Rapallo, Italy. It was reached by Walter Rathenau and G. V. Chicherin independently of the Conference of Genoa...
93) Katrine, Loch. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, Stirling, central Scotland. Its beauty is celebrated in Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. When Loch Katrine became Glasgow's main...
94) Rob Roy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...whose real name was Robert MacGregor. He is remembered chiefly as he figures in Sir Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1818). Deprived of their estates as a result of...
95) Aspen Music Festival. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...A former silver-mining boomtown, Aspen fell into decline and was culturally revived by Walter Paepcke, who formed the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The...
96) Giedion, Sigfried. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of architecture. Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wolfflin and close associate of Walter Gropius. He was a key figure of the International Congress of Modern Architecture...
97) Kenilworth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...England. A market town, it is famous for the ruins of Kenilworth Castle, celebrated in Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth and founded c.1120 by Geoffrey de Clinton....
98) Dare, Virginia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...parents to be born in America. She was the daughter of Ananias and Elenor Dare, members of Sir Walter Raleigh's ill-fated colony that settled Roanoke Island on the...
99) Spenser, Edmund. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of men eminent in literature and at court, including Gabriel Harvey, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester. After serving as...
100) Ballantyne, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and his brother John set up a publishing business in Edinburgh with the aid of Sir Walter Scott. The firm published Scott's works, beginning in 1802 with Minstrelsy...
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