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Defiance| Hamlet in St Charles County, east-central Missouri. It is situated on the Missouri River, to the south of Femme Osage Creek and 48 km/30 mi west of St Louis city centre. Frontiersman Daniel Boone settled here in 1799, having been awarded the judgeship of the Femme Osage District by Spanish authorities. His sons established a salt production centre at Boone's Lick, 190 km/120 mi to the west-northwest, supplying the growing St Louis area. Boone died here in 1820; his home remains a popular tourist attraction. |
Defiance| Town and administrative headquarters of Defiance County, northwest Ohio; population (1990) 16,800. It is situated 97 km/60 mi southwest of Toledo, at the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers. It is a trading and shipping centre for a region of diverse agriculture. Local manufactures include metals, automotive parts, food products, and radio and TV capacitors. It is home to Defiance College (1850). The town of Defiance grew up around the Indian-fighting Fort Defiance, built in 1794 by Gen Anthony Wayne, and still visible as earthworks in the city park. The great Ottawa chief Pontiac is thought to have been born here. |
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| Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man. The time will certainly come when that union will manifest itself as earthly and fallible; and the two disunited spirits, finding each other again, will become united here for the world beyond this--united, I tell you, in defiance of all human laws and of all human notions of right and wrong. |