Look up Melville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melville is a surname and a given name. The surname has two different origins: Scottish and Irish...
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Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance...
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Melville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melville may refer to: Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) Melville Peak, King George Island Melville...
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James Melville or Melvill may refer to: James Melville (Scottish minister) (1556–1614), Scottish divine and reformer James Melville of Halhill (1535–1617)...
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UCLA campus. The brand name and logo was inspired by the fictional tale of two people – Brandy, an American girl, and Melville, an Englishman, who met...
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Code Name Melville (original French title: Sous le nom de Melville) is a feature length documentary film about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier...
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Melville United AFC is an amateur football club in Melville, Hamilton, New Zealand. It competes in the Northern League. The club was formed in 1996 from...
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Melville Island may refer to: Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern...
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of Melville is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1690 for the Scottish soldier and statesman George Melville, 4th Lord Melville. He...
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he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His...
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Bjørn Melville (born 1 July 1984) is a Danish actor and musician. Melville was born in Djursland, Denmark, to Scottish comedian Johnny Melville and Dane...
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the Town of Melville on 28 September 1962, and assumed its current name when it was granted city status on 3 May 1968. The City of Melville maintains 463 km...
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Melville is a city in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) northeast of the provincial capital of...
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Melville may refer to: David Melville (academic) (born 1944), British physicist and former vice-chancellor of the University of Kent David Melville,...
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Moby-Dick (category Novels by Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal...
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killed when the uprising was put down by force. Sam Melville (a name borrowed from author Herman Melville) was born to Dorothy and William Grossman in 1934...
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Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (c.1578–c.1640) was a Scottish poet. In 1603 she became the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work in print...
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Melville or Melvill may refer to: Robert Melvill or Melville (1723–1809), Scottish general, botanist and inventor Robert Melville, 1st Lord Melville (died...
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the name HMS Melville: HMS Melville was an 18-gun brig-sloop, previously the French ship Naiade (Nayade). HMS Jason captured her in 1805; Melville was...
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Melville Jones may refer to: Melville Jones (bishop), (1866–1941), New Zealander bishop Melville Jones (racing driver), (1893–1975), American racing driver...
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league player Henry Melville (disambiguation) Melville (name) This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link...
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Alexander Melville may refer to: Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven (1695–1754), Scottish peer Alexander Melville (anatomist) (1819–1901), Irish anatomist...
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United States Navy have borne the name Melville, in honor of George W. Melville, an engineer and arctic explorer. USS Melville (AD-2), was a destroyer tender...
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John Ward Melville (January 5, 1887 – June 5, 1977) was an American philanthropist and businessman active in the "Three Villages" in western Suffolk County...
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Melville is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia located within the likewise named City of Melville. Melville is named after the nearby Melville Water...
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William Melville (25 April 1850 – 1 February 1918) was an Irish law enforcement officer and the first chief of the British Secret Service Bureau. William...
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Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the...
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Melville is a suburb in southern Hamilton in New Zealand. It is named after James Dougal Melville. Many of the streets in Melville are named after war...
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Francis Melville may refer to: Francis Dawes Melville, member of the Bombay civil service Captain Melville (Francis McNeiss McNeil McCallum, died 1857)...
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Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the...
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