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Wit Brother Clarence: The murders of Edward, of Wales, after Tewkesbury, and that of VI, in the Tower, are also ascribed tc Richard became grand chamberlain of En and, marrying Anne, the younger daugh Warwick, fell into violent disputes wit brother Clarence brother Clarence who was the husband elder daughter. The death of Clarence in for which Gloucester cannot be made d: responsible, greatly enriched the latter. Ir he became lieutenant general of the nort in 1482 carried on a victorious campaij Scotland. Edward IV died in April 1483 If Richard as guardian of his 13-year-ok Edward and protector of the kingdom.
Clarence LeRoy Meisinger Award. For his research in atmospheric circulation and processes, the American Meteorological Society gave the 1967 Clarence LeRoy Meisinger Award to Tetsuya Fujita, professor of meteorology and director of the University of Chicago satellite and mesometeorology project. (Mesometeorol-ogy deals wit brother Clarenceh "medium-scale" meteorology, such as regional weather conditions.)
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt. |
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