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Pembroke| Town in Robeson County, southern North Carolina, USA, 18 km/11 mi northwest of Lumberton; population (1990) 2,200. It is the centre of an American Indian Croatan (Lumbee) community, and the seat of Pembroke State University (1887). |
Pembroke| Seat of Renfrew County, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Allumette Lake (part of the Ottawa River), 120 km/75 mi northwest of Ottawa; population (1991) 14,000. The Indian and Muskrat rivers meet the Ottawa here. Pembroke developed as a major lumbering centre, and continues to make a variety of wood products. A gateway for the nearby Algonquin Provincial Park, it is also a tourist base for fishing, rafting, and birdwatching; the area is a stopover for swallows and waterbirds migrating to the west. |
| Settled in the 1820s, it was formerly known as Campbellton and Miramichi. |
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Bridges, Styles
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Callan
Fraunce, Abraham
Hawker, Robert Stephen
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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Marshall rebellion
Neuhaus, Richard John
Pembroke Pines
Pembroke, Mary, Countess of Pembroke
Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
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| ] Born in London in 1552, the son of a clothmaker, Spenser past from the newly established Merchant Taylors' school to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar, or poor student, and during the customary seven years of residence took the degrees of B. Knightley must take his seat with the rest round the large modern circular table which Emma had introduced at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had power to place there and persuade her father to use, instead of the smallsized Pembroke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded. I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in "stone dolls. |