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sperrylite
<chemical> An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white colour. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in Nature.

Origin: Named after F. L. Sperry, who discovered it.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Brent, Margaret (sh)




born งใ 1600, Gloucestershire, Eng.
died 1669/71, Westmoreland county, Va.

British colonial landowner in North America.

She arrived in Maryland in 1638 and obtained a patent for 70 acres, becoming the first woman in the colony to hold land in her own right. By 1657 she was among the colony's largest landowners. In a border dispute with Virginia in 1646, she organized a group of armed volunteers to support the Maryland colony's governor, Leonard Calvert. On his death in 1647, she became executor of his estate and settled a dispute over back pay for his soldiers that had nearly led to civil war.