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An old French city on the Charente, 83 m. NE. of Bordeaux, with a fine cathedral, the birthplace of Marguerite de Valois and Balzac.
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An old Hanse town in Pomerania, connected by railway with Stettin.
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An old municipal borough and market-town in Hampshire, 66 m. SW. of London; also a town 23 m. from Boston, U.S., famous for its theological seminary, founded in 1807.
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An old town in the canton Uri, at the S. end of the Lake of Lucerne; associated with the story of William Tell; a place of transit trade.
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An orator and leader of the oligarchical faction in Athens; was four times exiled, the first time for profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries (467-393 B.C.).
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An order of monks in the 5th century who by turns kept up a divine service day and night.
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An umbelliferous plant, the seed of which is used as a carminative and in the preparation of liqueurs.
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An unbroken range of high mountains, 150 of them actively volcanic, which extend, often in double and triple chains, along the west of South America from Cape Horn to Panama, a distance of 4500 m., divided into the Southern or Chilian as far as 23½° S., the Central as far as 10° S., and the Northern to their termination.
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An unfinished poem of Statius.
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An unsophisticated maiden in Molière's L'École des Femmes, so unsophisticated that she does not know what love means.
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