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MAJOR SIR WILLIAM, British painter. He was born in Ireland in 1878, and was educated at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and Slade School. He won much prominence as a portrait painter, and in 1918 had a great exhibition of his war pictures, many of which he presented to the government. His painting representing the international delegates at Versailles in 1919 was completed in 1920.
ORNE, department of France, formed out of the old provinces of Normandy, Alençon, and Perche; separated from the English Channel on the W. by La Manche and on the N. by Calvados; area, 2,371 square miles; pop. about 300,- 000. A range of wooded hills, nowhere rising above 1,370 feet, extends across the S. of the department from E. to W., separating the streams that flow N. to the English Channel from those that go