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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nicholas II of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nicholas was born in Saint Petersburg, the eldest son of Emperor Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark).
		Nicholas fell in love with Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, a daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the latter a daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
		Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children remained in the royal residence The Alexander Palace[?], with decreasing staff until they were moved to Tobolsk[?] in Siberia in August 1917, an effort by the struggling Kerensky government to keep them safer than was possible in Tsarskoe Selo[?].
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nicholas-II-of-Russia (1459 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman
		On his father's death in 1805 he was taken to Ireland by his mother, and after two years at school in Waterford was, with his brother, placed at Ushaw College, Durham, founded seventeen years previously, where the distinguished historian John Lingard, Wiseman's lifelong friend, was then vice-president.
		At Ushaw Nicholas resolved to embrace the life of a priest, and in 1818 he was chosen as one of the first batch of students for the English College in Rome, which had just been revived after having been closed for twenty years owing to the French occupation.
		At a consistory held on 30 Sept. Nicholas Wiseman was named a cardinal priest, with the title of St. Pudentiana.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15670a.htm (3365 words)

	Bacon, Sir Nicholas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BACON, SIR NICHOLAS [Bacon, Sir Nicholas] 1509-79, English jurist.
		In 1559 he was authorized to exercise the jurisdiction of the lord chancellor.
		Rehearsing Nicholas Nickleby: Dickens, Macready, and the Pantomime of Life.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/B/BaconS.asp (255 words)

	Biddle, Nicholas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BIDDLE, NICHOLAS [Biddle, Nicholas] 1750-78, American naval officer, b.
		After receiving command (1777) of the ship Randolph, Biddle was killed and his ship destroyed in an encounter (1778) with the British warship Yarmouth off the coast of Barbados.
		Overlord, over-ruled and over there: in the month in which we commemorate the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Nicholas suggests that America's involvement in northern Europe was unwittingly shaped by a British War Office official, against the wishes of the President.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-BiddleN-nav.asp (240 words)

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