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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
County of southeast England, known as the ‘garden of England’ (since April 1998 Medway Towns has been a separate unitary authority). Area 3,730 sq km/1,440 sq mi Towns and cities Maidstone (administrative headquarters), Ashford, Canterbury, Deal, Dover (ferry terminus), Gravesend, Hythe, New Ash Green (a new town), Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells; Folkestone, Margate, Ramsgate, Whitstable (resorts) Physical the North Downs; White Cliffs of Dover; rivers: Thames, Darent, Medway (traditionally, a ‘man of Kent’ comes from east of the Medway and a ‘Kentish man’ from west Kent), Stour; marshes (especially Romney Marsh); the Isles of Grain, Thanet and Sheppey (on which is the resort of Sheerness, formerly a royal dockyard); the Weald (an agricultural area); Dungeness (peninsula and headland) Features Leeds Castle (converted to a palace by Henry VIII); Ightham Mote; Hever Castle (where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn); Chartwell (Churchill's country home), Knole, Sissinghurst Castle (16th-century) …
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
An ancient Celtic name, often explained as ‘coastal district’, but alternatively perhaps ‘land of armies’. A county in the southeast corner of England, one of the HOME COUNTIES , bounded to the west by London, Surrey and East Sussex, to the north by the Thames Estuary, and to the south and east by…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Rapturous applause or ‘three times three and one more’. The expression probably originated with the protracted cheers given to the No-popery orators in 1828–9 in Kent. Lord Winchelsea, proposing the health of the Earl of Roden on 15 August 1834, said: ‘Let it be given with the Kentish fire.’ A…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
County of southeast England, known as the ‘garden of England’ (since April 1998 Medway Towns has been a separate unitary authority). Area 3,730 sq km/1,440 sq mi Towns and cities Maidstone (administrative headquarters), Ashford, Canterbury, Deal, Dover (ferry terminus), Gravesend, Hythe, New Ash…
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Full text Article Kent.

From The Oxford Companion to British History
is one of the oldest counties, having been a kingdom in Saxon times. ( See Kent, kingdom of .) It has always been of great importance because of its strategic position as gateway to the continent. It is comparatively little known, since the millions who pass through it hurl themselves towards the…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Name of counties in five states of the U.S. See tables at delaware maryland michigan rhode island texas . Town, W Litchfield co., NW Connecticut, on New York border; pop. (2000c) 2858; resort and art colony; Kent School (coeducational preparatory school, 1906); town incorp. 1739. City, Portage co., …
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Full text Article Kent, James

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James Kent was a landmark jurist, foundational to the establishment of a distinct American legal tradition. He was born in Doanesburg, New York, in 1763. He entered Yale College in 1777, although the Revolutionary War frequently disrupted his studies. In 1779 he began reading Sir William…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1763–1847, American jurist, b. near Brewster, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1785 and began practice in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Active in the Federalist party, he served several terms in the New York legislature. In 1793, Kent moved to New York City, where his reputation for learning established him…
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No-one knows Coca-Cola’s business as well as Muhtar Kent. For more than 20 years, he has expanded the company’s European and Asian operations, and penetrated new markets, earning him the promotion to CEO in 2008. Starting his career as a travelling salesman, Kent’s second appointment at Coca-Cola…
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Full text Article Kent, Rockwell

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born June 21, 1882, Tarrytown Heights, N.Y., U.S.—died March 13, 1971, Plattsburgh, N.Y.) U.S. painter and illustrator. He studied architecture at Columbia University but later chose to study painting with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri . He worked variously as an architectural draftsman, …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born July 31, 1763, Fredericksburgh, Putnam county, N.Y.—died Dec. 12, 1847, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. jurist who helped shape common law in the U.S. A lawyer at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from 1785 and a New York state legislator from 1790, he taught law at Columbia University (1793–98, 1823–26) and…
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