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Byron

City in northwestern Illinois, on the Rock River, 24 km/15 mi southwest of Rockford; population (1990) 2,300. A nuclear power plant was opened here in 1985.

The village of Stillman Valley (population (1990) 800), to the east, was the site of an American Indian victory in the Black Hawk War (1832). Byron was active in the Underground Railroad.



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WHEN Sir Walter Scott ceased to write Metrical Romances, he said it was because Byron had beaten him.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
I had always had a deep and reverent compassion for the sufferings of the "prisoner of Chillon," whose story Byron had told in such moving verse; so I took the steamer and made pilgrimage to the dungeons of the Castle of Chillon, to see the place where poor Bonnivard endured his dreary captivity three hundred years ago.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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