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Leo Fall
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fall of meteors
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Reichenbach Falls
Reichenbach Falls waterfalls, total drop 656 ft (200 m), S central Switzerland, where the Reichenbach River joins the Aare River. Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts (c.300 ft/90 m high) in the Alps. It is familiar to readers of A. Conan Doyle as the place where Sherlock Holmes... Read more |
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the Fall
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Virginia (Roman legend)
Virginia in Roman legend, daughter of the centurion Virginius. Her father stabbed her to save her from the lust of Appius Claudius Crassus, decemvir. This precipitated the fall of the decemvirs. The story occurs often in literature.... Read more |
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the Fall of Tarquin Brutus or
Brutus; or, the Fall of Tarquin (1819), a tragedy by John Howard Payne.[Park Theatre, in repertory.] Lucius Junius ( James Pritchard), whose noble family has been deposed and murdered by the usurping Tarquins, escapes death by feigning idiocy and becoming the Tarquin court jester. The Tarquin... Read more |
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Aeneas
Aeneas , in Greek mythology, a Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite. After the fall of Troy he escaped, bearing his aged father on his back. He stayed at Carthage with Queen Dido, then went to Italy, where his descendants founded Rome. The deeds of Aeneas are the substance of the great Roman... Read more |
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls city (1991 pop. 75,399), S Ont., Canada, on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls , N.Y. Formerly called Clifton, it is a port of entry, an important industrial city, and the home of Canadian factories for many well-known U.S. firms. Electric power supplied by the falls supports... Read more |
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Falls
Falls The study of materials or objects falling onto the earth was first initiated by Charles Fort in his remarkable work The Book of the Damned (1919). Fort collected and correlated accounts of the most astonishing variety of falls, including black rain, red snow, butter, manna, large blocks of... Read more |
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Victoria Nile
Victoria Nile river, section of the White Nile, c.260 mi (420 km) long, central Uganda, E central Africa. It drains from the northern end of Lake Victoria at Jinja and flows generally north and west, over Ripon Falls and Owen Falls (both now submerged), through shallow Lake Kyoga, and thence over... Read more |
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