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An Italian river; rises in the Tyrol, waters Bassano, and debouches near Venice.
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Market-town in Middlesex, on the Brent, 10 m. W. of London, that figures in history and literature.
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A city of Lombardy, on the Mella and Garza, 50 m. E. of Milan; has two cathedrals, an art gallery and library, a Roman temple excavated in 1822, and now a classical museum; its manufactures are woollens, silks, leather, and wine.
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The capital of Silesia, second city in Prussia; an important commercial and manufacturing centre, and has a first-class fortress; is on the Oder, 150 m. by rail SE. of Frankfort; it stands in the centre of the Baltic, North Sea, and Danube trade, and has a large woollen industry and grain market; there are a cathedral, university, and library.
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One of the Shetland Isles, near Lerwick, with one of the best natural harbours in the world.
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A strongly-fortified naval station in the extreme NW. of France; one of the chief naval stations in France, with a magnificent harbour, and one of the safest, first made a marine arsenal by Richelieu; has large shipbuilding yards and arsenal; its industries are chiefly related to naval equipment, with leather, waxcloth, and paper manufactures.
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A Dutch branch of the "Friends of God," founded at Deventer by Gerard Groote.
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Spanish poet and dramatist; wrote comedies and satires in an easy, flowing style (1800-1873).
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A title apparently of some kind of acknowledged supremacy among the Anglo-Saxon kings, and the leader in war.
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A family of Butch painters, a father and two sons, the father, Peter, called "Old" B. (1510-1570); a son, John, "Velvet" B., either from his dress or from the vivid freshness of his colours (1560-1625); and the other, Peter, "Hellish" B., from his fondness for horrible subjects (1559-1637).
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