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A peninsula in Central America dividing the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea, and one of the few peninsulas of the world that extend northwards; is a flat expanse; has a good climate and a fertile soil, yielding maize, rice, tobacco, indigo, etc.; abounds in forests of valuable wood; forms one of the States of the Mexican Republic; it bears traces of early civilisation in the ruins of temples and other edifices.
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Claims on the part and in the behalf of women to a status in society which will entitle them to the legal and social privileges of men.
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A town in Persia, near a lake of the name, SW. of the Caspian Sea, the seat of a Nestorian bishop and the birthplace of Zoroaster.
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A city of Troas, a territory NW. of Mysia, Asia Minor, celebrated as the scene of the world-famous legend immortalised by the "Iliad" of Homer in his account of the war caused by the rape of Helen, and which ended with the destruction of the city at the hands of the avenging Greeks.
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Caricaturist and novelist of Geneva, where he founded a boarding-school, and became professor of Rhetoric in the Geneva Academy; author of some charming novels, "Nouvelles Genévoises," "La Bibliothèque de mon Oncle," etc. (1799-1846).
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En av landene i Atlantic og opprinnelige av den amerikanske Union, samt den minste av dem; jord er ganske dårlig, men porselen leire overflod.
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Fjell dekket med sau i "Pilgrim's Progress," hvor the pilgrim henter en visning av den himmelske byen.
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Trieda recluses, nazvaný Stylites, ktorý, v prvých kresťanských časoch, odišiel zo sveta sýrskej púšte a, posadené na pilieroch, trávia dni a noci v pôstu a modlitby, vo zbesilé presvedčenie že od poníženia ich orgány zabezpečia spásu ich duší; ich zakladateľom bol Simon, priezviskom Stylites; prax, ktorá bola nikdy dovolené na západe, pokračovala až do 12 storočia.
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Kňaz Cirkvi Anglicka, kto má právo na veľké a malé desiatky živých; Ak desiatky impropriate nazval je farár.
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A female spirit of the watery element, naturally without, but capable of receiving, a human soul, particularly after being wedded to a man and after giving birth to a child.
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