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nounEnglish chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
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nouna leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
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nouna unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
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nounUnited States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
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Definition that contains henry
- more English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
- john youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
- james a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
- howard Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)
- elizabeth Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
- edward King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)
- catherine first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)
- ford son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
- ford grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
- porter United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)