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(Red-beard), Horuk, a native of Mitylene; turned corsair; became sovereign of Algiers by the murder of Selim the emir, who had adopted him as an ally against Spain; was defeated twice by the Spanish general Gomarez and slain (1473-1518).
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A Turkish province in the N. of Africa, between Tripoli and Egypt; produces maize, figs, dates, and olives.
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A spacious hall, twice as long as broad, for public business and the administration of justice, originally open to the sky, but eventually covered in, and with the judge's bench at the end opposite the entrance, in a circular apse added to it. They were first erected by the Romans, 180 B.C.; afterwards, on the adoption of Christianity, they were converted into churches, the altar being in the apse.
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A district in Upper Canada, on the Ottawa, a thriving place and an agricultural centre.
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Fourth son of Louis Philippe, distinguished himself in Algiers, and was governor of Algeria, which he resigned when his father abdicated; lived in England for twenty years after, acknowledged the Republic, and left his estate and valuables to the French nation (1822-1897).
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Born in France, educated by the Jesuits, a stanch Catholic; wrote the "Argenis," a Latin romance, much thought of by Cowper, translated more than once into English (1582-1621).
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A Scotch Presbyterian divine, born in Glasgow; resisted Laud's attempt to thrust Episcopacy on the Scotch nation, and became a zealous advocate of the national cause, which he was delegated to represent twice over in London; he was a royalist all the same, and was made principal of Glasgow University; "His Letters and Journals" were published by the Bannatyne Club, and are commended by Carlyle as "veracious," forming, as they do, the subject of one of his critical essays (1599-1662).
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Ένας διάβολος που θα μπορούσε αυτός συγκρατούνται από κακό εργασίας από την τρίτη ώρα μέχρι το μεσημέρι και από την ένατη μέχρι το βράδυ.
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Ένας μαθητής του Αριστοτέλη στο χρόνο του Κικέρωνα, καθώς και για τον οποίο χρωστάμε τη διατήρηση πολλών έργων του Αριστοτέλη.
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