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| 1. | Douay Bible. Elisabeth. |
| 2. | (Elizaveta Petrovna) 1709–62, empress of Russia 1741–62 (daughter of Peter the Great). |
| 3. | (Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luise, Princess of Wied; “Carmen Sylva”) 1843–1916, queen of Romania 1881–1914 and author. |
| 4. | (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother)), 1900–2002, queen consort of George VI of Great Britain (mother of Elizabeth II). |
| 5. | Saint, 1207–31, Hungarian princess and religious mystic. |
| 6. | a city in NE New Jersey. 106,201. |
| 7. | a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “oath of God.” |
| (Elizabeth Tudor) 1533–1603, queen of England 1558–1603 (successor of Mary I; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn). |
| (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor) born 1926, queen of Great Britain since 1952 (daughter of George VI). |
[ruhs-uhl] | 1. | Bertrand (Arthur William), 3rd Earl, 1872–1970, English philosopher, mathematician, and author: Nobel prize for literature 1950. |
| 2. | Charles Edward, 1860–1941, U.S. journalist, sociologist, biographer, and political leader. |
| 3. | Charles Taze [teyz] , (“Pastor Russell”), 1852–1916, U.S. religious leader and publisher: founder of Jehovah's Witnesses. |
| 4. | Elizabeth Mary, Countess (Mary Annette Beauchamp; “Elizabeth”), 1866–1941, Australian novelist. |
| 5. | George William (“Æ”), 1867–1935, Irish poet and painter. |
| 6. | Henry Norris, 1877–1957, U.S. astronomer. |
| 7. | John Russell, 1st Earl (Lord John Russell), 1792–1878, British statesman: prime minister 1846–52, 1865–66. |
| 8. | Lillian (Helen Louise Leonard), 1861–1922, U.S. singer and actress. |
| 9. | William Fel⋅ton [fel-tn] , (Bill), born 1934, U.S. basketball player and coach. |
| 10. | Mount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada. 14,088 ft. (4294 m). |
| 11. | a mountain in S central Alaska, in the Alaska Range. 11,670 ft. (3557 m). |
| 12. | a male given name. |
| E·liz·a·beth 1 (ĭ-lĭz'ə-bəth) In the New Testament, the mother of John the Baptist and a kinswoman of Mary. |
| E·liz·a·beth 2 (ĭ-lĭz'ə-bəth) Queen of Romania (1881-1916) and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva. |
| E·liz·a·beth 3 (ĭ-lĭz'ə-bəth) Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936-1952) as the wife of George VI. |
| E·liz·a·beth 4 (ĭ-lĭz'ə-bəth) A city of northeast New Jersey south of Newark. Settled as Elizabethtown in 1664, it was the capital of New Jersey until 1686 and is today a residential suburb of New York City. Population: 126,000. |
A queen of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; a brilliant and crafty ruler who presided over the Renaissance in England. Her reign, the Elizabethan period, was a time of notable triumphs in literature (William Shakespeare rose to prominence while she was queen) and war (the defeat of the Spanish Armada). The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth never married. She is called the “Virgin Queen” and “Good Queen Bess.”
Note: The state of Virginia is named after the “Virgin Queen.”
The present queen of Britain. Her husband is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the eldest of her four children is Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. Since Elizabeth became queen in 1952, dozens of nations, formerly possessions of Britain, have become independent.
| Russell (rŭs'əl) Pronunciation Key
American astronomer who studied binary stars and developed methods to calculate their mass and distances. Working independently of Ejnar Hertzsprung, Russell also demonstrated the relationship between types of stars and their absolute magnitude. This correlation is now known as the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. |