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The capital of Portugal, a magnificent town, built on the N. bank of the Tagus, 9 m. from its mouth, extends along the banks of the river 9 m. and inland 5 m.; it boasts of an array of fine buildings and squares, a number of literary and scientific institutions, and a spacious harbour; is remarkable for a marble aqueduct which brings water more than 10 m. across the valley of Alcantara; the manufactures include tobacco, soap, wool, and chemicals, and the exports wine, oil, and fruits; it suffered from an earthquake of great violence in 1755, by which the greater part of the city was destroyed, and from 30,000 to 40,000 of the inhabitants were killed.
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Ethnologist and philologist, born at Billingborough Vicarage, Lincolnshire, graduated at Cambridge 1832. and became Fellow of King's College; qualifying in medicine he held appointments in the London hospitals, but meanwhile was attracted to philology and ethnology, appointed professor of English Language and Literature in University College, London, 1839, and director of the ethnological department of the Crystal Palace, 1852; in 1862 he affirmed, against the most weighty authorities, that the Aryan stock is originally European, not Asian, a view which has since found favour; he published his "English Language" in 1841, and "The Natural History of the Varieties of Mankind" in 1850, and was pensioned in 1863 (1812-1888).
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A German author, and founder of modern German literature, born at Kamenz, Saxony, son of the pastor there; sent to study theology at Leipzig, studied hard; conceived a passion for the stage; wrote plays and did criticisms; wrote an essay on Pope; took English authors as his models, revolted against those of France; made it his aim to inaugurate or rather revive a purely German literature, and produced examples regarded as classics to this day; his principal dramas, all conceived on the soil, are "Miss Sara Sampson," "Mina von Barnhelm," "Emilia Galotti," and "Nathan der Weise," and his principal prose works are his "Fables" and "Laocoon," a critical work on art still in high repute (1729-1781).
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Eine Gebirgssystem in Nordamerika, welches sich im nordosten erstreckt. Aus den Hochebenen von Alabama bis zum St. Lawrence Strom, und umfasst die Alleghanies und das Blaue Gebirge; größte Höhe ist unter 7000 Fuß; erreicht nicht die Schneegrenze; reich an Kohle und Eisen.
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Ein Kanton im Nordosten der Schweiz, von St. Gallen eingeschlossen, eingeteilt in Outer Rhoden, welches industriell und protestantisch gepraegt ist, und Innerrhoden, landwirdschaftlich und katholisch gepraegt ist; auch der Name der Hauptstadt.
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Ein alexandrinischer Grieche, schrieb im 2. Jahrhundert eine Geschichte von Rom in 24 Büchern, von denen 11 erhalten gebleiben sind.
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Ein goldener Apfel mit den Worten: "Fuer die Schönste"beschriftet, geworfen inmitten der Götter des Olymps zu einem bestimmten Anlass: es stritten sich um diesen: Hera, Athene und Aphrodite, er wurde verliehen von Paris von Troja, als Schiedsrichter, an Aphrodite, fuer das Versprechen, dass er die schönste Frau der Welt zur Frau haben sollte.
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Ein athenischer Maler, die erste der Personen in Licht und Schatten malte, 408 v. Chr.
Ein gefeierter Architekt von Damaskus, starb 129n Chr,
Und ein Athener, der eine übersichtliche Zusammenfassung der Mythologie und des heroischen Zeitalter Griechenlands schrieb.
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