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Preußischer General, geboren in Pommern; war Kriegsminister 1859 und der Marine, 1861; wurde für die wichtigen Reformen in der Organisation der preußischen Armee beruehmt, welche sich in Feldzügen von 1866 und 1871-72 bemerkbar machten (1803-1879.
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The name of an Arctic archipelago lying 400 m. N. of Norway, embracing West Spitzbergen (15,260 sq. m.), North-East Land, Stans Foreland, King Charles land or Wiche Island, Barents Land, Prince Charles Foreland, besides numerous smaller islands; practically lies under great fields of ice, enormous glaciers, and drifts of snow, pierced here and there by mountain peaks, hence the name Spitzbergen; the home of vast flocks of sea-birds, of polar bears, and Arctic foxes, while herds of reindeer are attracted to certain parts by a scanty summer vegetation; there are no permanent inhabitants, but the fiord-cut shores are frequented in summer by Norwegian seal and walrus hunters.
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Eine Philanthropin, geboren in Great Yarmouth; lebte von der Schneiderei und widmete viel von ihrer Zeit Kriminellen in den Gefängnissen (1791 – 1843).
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Or Limbo, according to Catholic theologians a region on the confines of Hades tenanted, the limbus patrum, by the souls of good men who died before Christ's advent, and the limbus infantium, by the souls of unbaptized infants, both of whom await there the resurrection morn to join the ransomed in heaven.
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The flag of the United States, the stripes representing the original States of the Union, and stars those annexed since.
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Der "Eroberer", Gründer des Königreichs von Portugal, war der erste König, ursprünglich nur Graf, wie sein Vater vor ihm; in dieser Funktion bekaempfte er die Mauren, und nachdem er sie besiegt hatte, rief er sich sich selbst zum König auf dem Schlachtfeld aus, einen Titel, der ihm vom Papst bestätigt und dem er Ehre machte, indem er praktisch ganz unter seine Herrschaft brachte (1110-1185).
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Eine zentralsibirische Provinz, von China durch das Sajangebirge getrennt; Es hat den Baikalsee im Osten, Yenisei und Yakutsk im Westen und Norden; reiches pastorales Land und bewässert durch die schiffbare Flüsse Angara und Lena, Landwirtschaft, Viehzucht sind florierenden Branchen; Es gibt Gold, Eisen und Salzbergwerke; ein Drittel der Bevölkerung sind erzwungene Kolonisten; die Hauptstadt, Irkutsk, ist Sitz der Regierung für Ost-Sibirien, ein kirchliches Zentrum und der Hauptemporium des Handels; Es ist die schönste Stadt in Sibirien.
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Stretch in irregular broken masses and subsidiary chains for 120 m. across South-East Germany, separating Bohemia and Moravia from Saxony and Prussian Silesia, and forming a link between the Carpathians and mountains of Franconia; highest and central position is known as the Riesengebirge; Schneekoppe is the culminating point of the range.
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The largest of the long chain of islands which stretches eastward from Java, of volcanic formation, mountainous, wooded, and possessing deposits of various metals, but mainly exports maize, sandal-wood, wax, tortoise-shell, etc.; population consists chiefly of Papuans, whose native chiefs are the real rulers of the island, which belongs, the W. portion of it to Holland and the E. to Portugal; E. of Timor lies a group of three low-lying islands of coral formation, known as Timor-Laut or Tenimber Islands; Dutch possession.
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The son of Ulysses and Penelope, who an infant when his father left for Troy was a grown-up man on his return; having gone in quest of his father after his long absence found him on his return in the guise of a beggar, and whom he assisted in slaying his mother's suitors.
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