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An Ionian island, the southernmost, the ancient Cythera; yields wine and fruits.
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A heresiarch of the first century, whom, according to tradition, St. John held in special detestation, presumably as denying the Father and the Son.
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A town in Peru, 14,200 ft. above the sea-level, with the richest silver mine in S. America.
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A Jesuit, born at Turin; became a Revolutionary in France; pronounced the funeral oration at the grave of Mirabeau in 1789.
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An Italian poet, translator of the "Iliad" and "Ossian" into Italian (1730-1808).
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A girdle worn by Greek and Roman women, specially the girdle of Aphrodité, so emblazoned with symbols of the joys of love that no susceptible soul could resist the power of it; it was borrowed by Hera to captivate Zeus.
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The capital of Montenegro, in a valley 2000 ft. high; smallest of capital cities, with a population under 2000.
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A seaport, trading, and manufacturing town, on a tongue of land between the lagoon of Thau and the Mediterranean, 23 m. SW. of Montpellier, with a large safe harbourage.
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A port opposite Gibraltar belonging to Spain, on the coast of Morocco, guarded by a fort on one of the Pillars of Hercules, overlooking it; of importance as a military and convict station.
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