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Maurauders who formerly raided the moss-grown borderland of England and Scotland.
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Mechanician, son of the preceding, born in Edinburgh; invented the steam-hammer and a steam pile-driver (1808-1890).
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Mistress of Louis XIV.; a woman noted for her wit and beauty; bore the king eight children; was supplanted by Madame de Maintenon; passed her last days in religious retirement (1641-1707).
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Name equivalent to "new birth," and applied both to regeneration and restoration, of which baptism in the former case is the symbol; in the Stoic philosophy it is preceded by dissolution, as in the rejuvenescence process of Medea.
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Name given by Baron Reichenbach to a transparent crystalline substance obtained by distillation from wood, bituminous coal, shale, etc., and so called because it resists the action of the strongest acids and alkalies.
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Name given by Darwin to the survival of certain plants and animals that are fitted, and the decease contemporaneously of certain others that are not fitted, to a new environment.
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Name given by the Middle Age philosophers to man as representing the macrocosm or universe in miniature.
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Name given principally to riots in London in June 1780, due to the zeal of Lord George Gordon, ending in the death of near 300 persons.
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Name given to a parliament held at Coventry by Henry IV. in 1494, because no lawyer was allowed to sit in it.
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Name given to a physical force recently surmised and believed to pervade all nature, and as manifesting itself chiefly in connection with mesmeric phenomena.
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