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East Indies
East Indies name formerly used for the Malay Archipelago , but also more restrictively for Indonesia and more widely to include SE Asia. It once referred chiefly to India.... Read more |
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Charles Albert
Charles Albert 1798-1849, king of Sardinia (1831-49, see Savoy, house of ). Because he had not been entirely unsympathetic to the revolutionary movement of 1821 in Sardinia, Charles Albert developed an ambiguous political reputation prior to acceding to the throne in 1831. His first years in power... Read more |
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seraphim
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sweet cicely
sweet cicely , name for the European herb Myrrhis odorata and for closely related American and Asian plants of the genus Osmorhiza, all of the family Umbelliferae ( parsley family). Both sweet cicely plants are fragrant perennials having aromatic, licorice-flavored roots, once considered... Read more |
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Andre
André (1798), a tragedy by William Dunlap. [Park Theatre, 3 perf.] Major André ( John Hodgkinson) has been captured and condemned to die for being a British spy. His friends, including patriotic Americans, admire him enough to attempt to save him. First among these friends is Bland (... Read more |
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the Weald
the Weald , area between the North Downs and the South Downs, SE England, forming part of the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, and Kent. Formerly forested and once noted for its iron industry, the Weald is now largely agricultural.... Read more |
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Ernest Henry Starling
STARLING, ERNEST HENRY(b. London, England, 17 April 1866; d. Kingston, Jamaica, 2 May 1927)physiology, education.In circulatory physiology the Starling legacy is conceptually one of the most influential in the twentieth century. The “Starling sequence,” embracing both central circulatory function... Read more |
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Celtic languages
Celtic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east, where a district still known as Galatia recalls the former... Read more |
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Brewsters Millions
Brewster's Millions (1906), a play by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley. [New Amsterdam Theatre, 163 perf.] Montgomery Brewster ( Edward Abeles) is left one million dollars in the will of his grandfather, who died remorseful over neglecting his daughter, Brewster's mother. Monty's joy at his... Read more |
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Sainte-Chapelle
Sainte-Chapelle , former chapel in Paris. Forming part of the buildings of the Palais de Justice (once the royal palace) on the Île-de-la-Cité, it was built by Pierre de Montreuil (1243-46) for Louis IX (St. Louis) to enshrine the Crown of Thorns and other sacred relics brought back... Read more |
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