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–003.03+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 937b: 'The views of the city and environs from the castle or any of the hills are very beautiful'
–004.36+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IX, 'Erigena, Johannes Scotus', 744a: 'The infinite essence of God, which may indeed be described as nihilum (nothing) is that from which all is created, from which all proceeds or emanates' [005.01]
–010.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVII, 'Madras', 292a: (of the city of Madras) 'in 1741 the Mahrattas unsuccessfully attacked the place' (Cluster: Battles)
–034.12+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XII, 'Greek Literature', 507d: 'Homer himself is called "son of Meles" - the stream which flowed through old Smyrna'
–036.35+Gaping Ghyl: a 330-foot deep vertical shaft in Yorkshire (mentioned in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. V, 'Cave', 574c) [617.19]
–047.19+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buddha', 737c: 'Buddha... was the son of Suddhodana, one of the chiefs of the tribe of the Sakiyas, one of the republican clans then still existent in India'
–051.08+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 259c: (of Welsh place-names) 'the word llan (church) precedes a proper name; thus every Llandewi recalls the early labours of Dewi Sant (St David)' (Welsh)
–051.27+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 260a: (glossary of components in Welsh place-names) 'Capel, a corrupt form of the Latin "capella" applied to chapels, ancient and recent - Capel Dewi, Capel-issaf, Parc-y-capel' (Welsh)
–051.27+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 268b: (of Welsh language) 'the values of the letters in the modern alphabet... Voiceless nasals: mh; nh; ngh. Voiced nasals: m; n; ng. Voiceless liquids: ll (unilateral voiceless l); rh (voiceless r). Voiced liquids: l; r' (Welsh)
–051.28+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 268c: '(Welsh has no z)' (Welsh)
–051.28+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 260a: (glossary of components in Welsh place-names) 'Craig, a rock or crag - Pen-y-graig' (Welsh)
–051.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 260a: (glossary of components in Welsh place-names) 'Bryn, a hill - Brynmawr, Penbryn' (Welsh)
–051.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 261c: 'At the time of the Roman invasion of Britain, 55 B.C., four distinct dominant tribes, or families, are enumerated west of the Severn, viz. the Decangi... the Ordovices... the Dimetae... and the Silures'
–084.30+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'Lisbon', 771b: (of the Aqueducto das Aguas Livres) 'At the Lisbon end of the aqueduct is the Mae d'Agua (i.e. "Mother of Water"), containing a huge stone hall in the midst of which is the reservoir'
–089.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'Lisbon', 771b: (of the Aqueducto das Aguas Livres) 'At the Lisbon end of the aqueduct is the Mae d'Agua (i.e. "Mother of Water"), containing a huge stone hall in the midst of which is the reservoir'
–107.24+a document known as the Bordereau played a prominent part in the Dreyfus affair, eventually leading to Dreyfus's false conviction (e.g. mentioned in Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 47-48 and in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Anti-Semitism', 143d)
–125.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Archaeology', 344d: 'If it were possible to determine with precision what were the peculiarities of the flint... thus altered by natural agencies, it would be easy to separate them from others purposely made by man... Even the one feature that is commonly held to determine human agency, the "bulb of percussion," cannot be considered satisfactory'
–146.17+La belle Isabeau: a child prophet of the Camisards (mentioned in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. V, 'Camisards', 114a)
–155.35+Gino Capponi: 18th century Italian historian, famous for his history of Florence (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. V, 'Capponi, Gino', 289b: 'At his beautiful villa of Varramista be collected materials for a history of the Church; his work was interrupted by family troubles and by increasing blindness, but although by 1844 he had completely lost his sight he continued to work by means of amanuenses')
–157.02+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Asphalt', 768a: 'The solid or semi-solid kinds of bitumen (q.v.) were termed asphaltos by the Greeks; and by some ancient writers the name of pissasphaltum (pissa, pitch) was also sometimes employed' (from Greek pissa: tar, pitch)
–167.18+Tarpeian rock on Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which traitors were thrown (after Tarpeia, daughter of the commander of the Capitol, who offered to betray the citadel and was killed by the Sabines (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tarpeia', 430b))
–198.18+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 259d: 'the confluence of the Usk and Honddu'
–202.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 259d: 'the banks of the Elwy'
–210.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 633d: (of raindrops) 'More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the tricling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream gaining strength, proceeds in its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and entrench itself in permanent occupation'
–215.11+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 634c: 'talweg, a word introduced from the German into French and English, and meaning the deepest line along the valley, which is necessarily occupied by a stream unless the valley is dry' (German Talweg: valley way)
–229.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 259c: (Welsh place-names) 'Talybont, end of the bridge' (Welsh)
–229.26+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wales', 259c: (Welsh place-names) 'Nantyffin, the boundary brook' (Welsh)
–242.09+Nerses: 4th century Armenian patriarch (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Armenian Church', 569d: 'by this time the autonomy of the Armenian church was thoroughly established. On the death of Nerses the right of saying grace at the royal meals, which was the essence of the catholicate, was transferred by the king, in despite of the Greeks, to the priestly family of Albianus, and thenceforth no Armenian catholicus went to Caesarea for ordination. The ties with the Greek official Christendom were snapped for ever')
–242.09+Nerses the Graceful: 12th century Armenian poet (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Armenian Language and Literature', 573d: 'Nerses the Graceful (d. 1165), author of an Elegy on the taking of Edessa, of voluminous hymns, of long Pastoral Letters and Synodal orations')
–243.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IX, 'Eskimo', 770a: 'A man will lie on his back and allow his wife to feed him with tit-bits of blubber and flesh until he is unable to move'
–246.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351a: 'The American University (chartered 1893), under Methodist Episcopal control... with a campus of 94 acres... in 1910 had not been opened to students'
–294.L04+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIV, 'Sanskrit', 178a: 'Maya, illusion' (Sanskrit)
–294.L05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIV, 'Sanskrit', 178d: (of the Sankhya philosophical system) 'To account for the spontaneous development of matter, the system assumes the latter to consist of three constituents (guna) which are possessed of different qualities, viz. sattva, of pleasing qualities, such as "goodness," lightness, luminosity; rajas, of pain-giving qualities, such as "gloom," passion, activity; and tamas, of deadening qualities, such as "darkness," rigidity, dullness and which, if not in a state of equipoise, cause unrest and development' (Sanskrit)
–320.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Taaffe, Eduard Franz Joseph von', 321d: (of the 19th century Austrian statesman's ancestors) 'From the 13th century the Taaffes had been one of the leading families in the north of Ireland'
–336.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 943c: 'The derivation commonly accepted for Piccadilly is from pickadil, a stiff collar or hem in fashion in the early part of the 17th century'
–348.34+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paradise', 752a: 'the Zoroastrians speak of their Paradise-mountain Alburz both as heavenly and as earthly'
–371.05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Iceland', 236a: 'Hord's Saga (980) is the life of a band of outlaws on Whalesfirth, and especially of their leader Hord'
–375.07+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Arthur', 681c: 'the central hero of the cycle of romance known as the Matière de Bretagne' (i.e. Matter of Britain)
–383.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. X, 'Finland', 383b: 'At the head-waters of the Torneå, Finland penetrates as a narrow strip into the heart of the highlands of Kjölen (the Keel), where the Halderfjäll (Lappish, Halditjokko) reaches 4115 ft. above the sea, and is surrounded by other fjälls, or flat-topped summits' [.23]
–383.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. X, 'Finland', 383c: 'the Vuoksen, flows into Lake Ladoga, forming the mighty Imatra rapids'
–383.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. X, 'Finland', 383c: 'Two large rivers, Kemi and Torneå, enter the head of the Gulf of Bothnia'
–386.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Roman Law', 530a: 'children born in lawful marriage followed the family of their father, while those who were illegitimate ranked from the moment of birth as patresfamilias and matresfamilias'
–386.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Roman Law': repeatedly mentions 'emancipation' and 'mancipation' (e.g. 530a, 540c, 532c, 541d))
–390.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. I, 'Æthelred II', 290d: (of the orders of Æthelred II, the Unready) 'Orders were issued commanding the slaughter on St Brice's day (2 December) of "all the Danish men who were in England"' (but Saint Brice's day is actually 13 November)
–390.11+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Roman Law', 530d: (of solemn ancient Roman marriage) 'The ceremony was a religious one, conducted by the chief pontiff and the flamen of Jupiter, in presence of ten witenesses... and was known as farreum or confarreatio'
–392.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Roman Law', 529d: 'if his wife had not passed in manum... she did not become a member of his family: she remained a member of the family in which she was born, or, if its head were decseased or she had been emancipated, she constituted a family in her own person'
–393.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vico, Giovanni Batista', 24c: 'Patrician tyranny rouses the populace to revolt, and then democratic equality is established under a republic'
–398.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vico, Giovanni Batista', 24c: 'Democratic excesses cause the rise of an empire, which, becoming corrupt, declines into barbarism, and, again emerging from it, retraces the same course'
–405.33+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Innocents' Day', 583b: 'Innocents' Day, or Childermas, a festival celebrated in the Latin church on the 28th of December... in memory of the massacre of the children by Herod... The Irish call the day... Diar dasin darg, "blood Thursday"'
–415.10+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXI, 'Phoebe', 449b: 'satellite of Saturn... remarkable in that its motion around the planet is retrograde' [.09]
–440.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 620c: (of geographical theory) 'While the theory of the sphere was being elaborated the efforts of practical geographers were steadily directed towards ascertaining the outline and configuration of the oekumene, or habitable world, the only portion of the terrestrial surface known to the ancients and to the medieval peoples, and still retaining a shadow of its old monopoly of geographical attention in its modern name of the "Old World"'
–449.27+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIII, 'hoopoe', 676c: 'as incubation proceeds... the hen scarcely ever leaves her eggs' (Cluster: Birds)
–481.18+Apabhramsa: a stage in the development of Prakrit (Indian vernacular) languages, viewed by grammarians as "corrupt language" (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Indo-Aryan Languages', 488c: 'The next, and final, stage of the Secondary Prakrits was that of the Apabhramsas. The word Apabhramsa means "corrupt" or "decayed" and was applied to the vernacular in contrast to the Prakrit par excellence, which had in its turn (like Sanskrit and Pali) become stereotyped by being employed by literature')
–481.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIV, 'Indo-Aryan languages', 490a: 'The past and future participles are passive in their origin, and hence tenses formed with these participles must be construed passively... for an intransitive verb we have, either "I am gone", or 'it is gone by me"'
–490.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Boston', 295c: 'in 1704, the first newspaper in America, the Boston News-Letter, which was published weekly until 1776' [489.35]
–499.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIII, 'Hindostani', 479d: (Hindostani) 'was the natural language of the people in the neighbourhood of Delhi, who formed the bulk of those who resorted to the bazaar, and hence it became the bazaar language'
–532.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VI, 'Christiania', 280a: 'the beautiful Slotspark, a wooded elevation crowned with the royal palace (slot)'
–533.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'Riddarholmen (nobles' island), lying immediately west of Stadholmen'
–533.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'Staden is the commercial centre of the city'
–534.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 941b: 'The town council... consists of fifty members, a lord provost'
–534.14+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XIX, 'New York (City)', 610d: 'A third channel, the South and Swash, is used by coasting vessels drawing about 20ft'
–534.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 939c: '"Mayfair," north of Piccadilly, and "Belgravia," south of Knightsbridge, are common though unofficial names for the richest residential districts'
–534.31+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 936a: 'a bronze cast of the famous group of J. P. Molin (1859), the Bältespännare (belt-bucklers), representing an early form of duel in Scandinavia, in which the combatants were bound together by their belts'
–535.09+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1047d: (of Tokyo) 'formerly called Yedo'
–535.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 934c: 'The coast is here thickly fringed with islands (the skärgård)'
–535.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'the broad shipping quay (Skeppsbro)'
–535.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the old Rathaus'
–535.20+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1048b: 'the castle of Yedo, formerly the residence of the shōguns' (de-facto rulers of Japan until 1868)
–536.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 356b: 'The discovery of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro is attributed... to André Gonçalves, who entered its waters on the 1st of January 1502, and believed that it was the mouth of a great river, hence the name Rio de Janeiro (River of January)... The first settlement in the bay was made by an expedition of French Huguenots... In 1560 their fort was captured and destroyed by a Portuguese expedition... and in 1567 another expedition... again destroyed the French settlements... The victory was won on the 20th of January, the feast-day of St Sebastian the Martyr, who became the patron saint of the new settlement and gave it his name - Sāo Sebastiāo do Rio de Janeiro'
–536.10+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 809d: 'Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements'
–536.26+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 350a: 'the Government Printing Office (twelve storeys - one of the few tall office-buildings in the city)'
–536.31+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 966b: (of the government of the Commune of London in the late 12th century and the early 13th century) 'the government of the city was in the hands of a mayor and twelve échevins (skivini)... alii probi homines were associated with the mayor and échevins to form a body of twenty-four... the Court of Skivini and alii probi homines... was the germ of the Common Council'
–537.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 940b: 'South of the Thames the thoroughfares crossing the river between Lambeth and Bermondsey converge upon two circuses, St George's and the Elephant and Castle'
–537.03+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622d: 'In 1646 Dublin was besieged, but without success, by the Irish army... under the guidance of the Pope's nuncio Rinuccini and others'
–537.04+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622a: 'The first Norseman who may be reckoned as king was Thorkel I. (832)'
–537.34+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 937c: (in Edinburgh Castle) 'a huge piece of ancient artillery, called Mons Meg'
–537.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620d: 'South of the city are Rathmines... and Donnybrook, celebrated for its former fair'
–538.08+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354d: 'The new Praça do Commercio (Merchants' Exchange)'
–538.12+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Teheran', 506b: 'in 1869 Nasr-ud-din Shah decided upon enlarging the city... an enceinte consisting of a ditch and 58 unequal bastions... was constructed and completed in 1874'
–538.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XV, 'Johannesburg', 432a: 'The customary unit of expenditure is the threepenny-bit or "tickey"'
–538.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 939a: 'such old-world picturesque buildings as... the old Cunzie House, or mint... and even such "howffs" as Clerihugh's tavern'
–538.27+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Mölkerhof, adjoining the open space called the Freiung'
–538.32+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51a: 'In the old town are the two largest of the Höfe, extensive blocks of buildings belonging to the great abbeys of Austria, which are common throughout Vienna. These are the Schottenhof (once belonging to the "Scoti," or Irish Benedictines) and the Mölkerhof'
–539.20+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'a new government for the entire District, consisting of a governor, a secretary, a board of public works, a board of health and a council'
–539.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'the factories in the District which were operated under private ownership'
–539.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816b: 'the communes of 1793 and 1871'
–539.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 621b: 'Dublin poplins... keep their reputation'
–539.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "A Mudhole almost Equal to the Great Serbonian Bog" were common' (referring to John Milton: Paradise Lost II.592: 'Serbonian Bog', Milton's name for L. Serbonis, a marshy tract in Lower Egypt)
–539.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "City of Magnificent Distances"... were common'
–539.26+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 804c: 'Since 1840 Paris has been completely surrounded by a wall... which, with its talus, is encircled by a broad and deep ditch... a deep dry ditch (escarp, but not counterscarp revetted)'
–540.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 353d: 'Considerably beyond the limits of the city on its S.W. side... The sky-line... forms the rough outline of a huge reclining figure called "the sleeping giant"'
–540.18+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 804c: 'The altitude of Paris varies between 80 ft.... and 420 ft.'
–540.18+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622b: 'In 1176 Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, and chief leader of the Anglo-Norman forces, died in Dublin of a mortification in one of his feet'
–540.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Bucharest', 718c: 'Like most ancient cities of Rumania, its foundation has also been ascribed to the first Walachian prince, the half-mythical Radu Negru (c. 1290-1314)'
–540.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940c: 'David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851), who under the pen-name of "Delta" wrote Mansie Wauch, a masterpiece of Scots humour and pathos'
–541.02+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 937b: 'To the east rises Calton Hill... On the south-east... stands the hill of Arthur's Seat... to the south, Liberton Hill, Blackford Hill, Braid Hills and Craiglockhart Hills roughly mark the city bounds, as Corstorphine Hill and the Water of Leith do the western limits'
–541.09+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Rangoon', 891d: 'In 1892 was introduced the sewage system, which now includes 6 m. of mains'
–541.10+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938d: 'tributary streams have been covered in and built over'
–541.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 810d: (of municipal departments) 'pawnbroking (the mont-de-piété)'
–541.36+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354d: 'for the five years 1900-1905... Among the deaths 2789 were from tuberculosis'
–542.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354d: 'for the five years 1900-1905... Among the deaths... 106 from beri-beri'
–542.04+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 812a: 'The sewers are used as conduits for water-pipes, gas-pipes, telegraph and telephone wires and pneumatic tubes'
–542.08+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Rangoon', 891d: 'Electric tramways run to Pazundaung in one direction and to Alôn and Kemmendine in the other'
–542.09+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 808c: 'The Palais Royal, built by Richelieu in 1630 and afterwards inhabited by Anne of Austria, the regent Philip II. of Orleans and Philippe Égalité'
–542.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753a: 'Among the city's many plazas, or squares... 6 de Junio... There are also... elaborately laid out alamedas... the Paseo de Julio'
–542.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753c: 'Every ratepayer, whether foreigner or native, has the right to vote in municipal elections and to serve in the municipal council'
–542.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753c: 'The government is vested in an intendente municipal (mayor)... and a concejo deliberante (legislative council)'
–542.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 814a: 'The capital did not at once take the name of the Parisii, whose centre it was, but long kept that of Lucetia, Lucotetia or Lutetia'
–542.33+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VII, 'Delhi', 955b: 'The Chandni Chauk ("silver street"), the principal street of Delhi, which was once supposed to be the richest street in the world, has falled from its high estate'
–543.02+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622a: 'The Roman Catholic Church has charge of a number of special charities'
–543.12+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 939d: 'In the south side are the Grange, Newington or Echobank, and Morningside cemeteries'
–543.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940b: 'Corstorphine Hill - from one point of which ("Rest and be Thankful") is to be had one of the best views of Edinburgh'
–543.19+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 805c: 'Outside the Grands Boulevards lie the faubourgs or old suburbs' (French)
–543.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 621d: 'The hospital and Free School of King Charles I., commonly called the Blue Coat hospital, was founded in 1670. It is devoted to the education and maintenance of the sons of citizens in poor circumstances'
–545.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Bristol', 579b: 'Bristol, a city, county of a city, municipal, county and parliamentary borough, and seaport of England'
–545.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622b: 'In 1217 the fee farm of the city was granted to the citizens at a rent of 200 marks per annum'
–545.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354a: 'The oldest part of the city... lies between... Sāo Bento, Conceicāo and Livramento hills on the N.'
–545.34+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Graben, one of the busiest thoroughfares, containing the most fashionable shops in Vienna'
–545.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'Among the principal residence streets are Massachusetts, especially between Dupont and Sheridan circles'
–545.36+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'The original plan of the city, which was prepared by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1755-1825)'
–546.06+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 806a: 'The Place de l'Étoile is the centre of twelve avenues radiating from it in all directions'
–546.11+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51a: 'Alsergrund, with the enormous general hospital, the military hospital and the municipal asylum for the insane, is the medical quarter'
–546.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349b: 'Potomac Park (740 acres)... has already been reclaimed from the Potomac river'
–547.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Teheran', 506c: 'the great Maidan i Mashk (Maidan of drill), the military parade ground'
–547.18+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 958d: 'the Conqueror's remarkable charter to William the bishop and Gosfrith the portreeve, supposed to be the elder Geoffrey de Mandeville'
–547.18+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 949d: 'The extent of the Port of London... for those of the Port Authority... is taken to extend from Teddington Lock to a line between Yantlet Creek in Kent and the City Stone opposite Canvey Isle and in Essex'
–547.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Stock im Eisen, the stump of a tree, said to be the last survivor of a holy grove round which the original settlement of Vindomina sprang up. It is full of nails driven into it by travelling journeymen'
–547.31+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 939d: 'In the south side are the Grange, Newington or Echobank, and Morningside cemeteries'
–547.33+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 50d: 'a magnificent boulevard, the Ring-Strasse'
–548.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'the city is divided into... four parts by North Capitol, East Capitol and South Capitol streets, which intersect at the Capitol'
–549.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buenos Aires', 753d: 'street lighting had been effected at first with lamps burning mares' grease'
–549.02+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 815c: 'As for the lighting of the town, till the close of the 16th century the only lamps were those in front of the madonnas at the street corners'
–549.06+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 815c: (of Philip Augustus's return from a 1214 victorious expedition to Flanders) 'the public rejoicings lasted for seven days, "interrupted by no night," says the chronicler, alluding to the torches and lamps with which the citizen lighted up the fronts of their houses'
–549.07+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 939a: 'In the south-east... the Blackheath and Woolwich pebble-beds appear'
–549.07+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 957b: 'When the city is next referred to in the Saxon Chronicle it appears to have been inhabited by a population of heathens. Under then date 604 we read: "This year Augustine... sent Mellitus to preach baptism to the East Saxons, whose king was called Sebert, son of Ricole the sister of Æthelbert, and whom Æthelbert had then appointed king"'
–549.20+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938c: 'The low ground between the slight hills flanking the Thames valley... was originally occupied by a shallow lagoon of estuarine character, tidal, and interspersed with marshy tracts and certain islets of relatively firm land'
–549.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816b: 'royalty had to fear too great an expansion of the municipal power at Paris'
–549.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940c: 'Portobello (pop. 9180), being within 3 m. of the capital'
–550.05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 941a: 'the city was divided for parliamentary purposes into East, West, Central and South Edinburgh, each returning one member'
–550.10+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938b: (listing the boroughs of London) 'St Marylebone (commonly Marylebone)'
–550.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938b: (listing the boroughs of London) 'St Pancras'
–550.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620d: 'Northward lies... Finglas, with a ruined church of early foundation, and an Irish cross'
–550.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816c: (of Charles V) 'A library which he founded... became the nucleus of the national library'
–550.28+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1048d: 'the transfer of the court from Kiōto' (capital of Japan until 1868)
–550.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 948b: (of the Tate gallery) 'by the Thames near Vauxhall Bridge'
–551.04+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VII, 'Delhi', 955a: (of a hall building in the imperial palace) 'It was in the recess in the back wall of this hall that the famous Peacock Throne used to stand, "so called from its having the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails being expanded and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emaralds, pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours as to represent life"'
–551.06+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Ottawa', 369d: 'Rideau Street'
–551.06+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVIII, 'Mexico City', 345b: 'the old custom-house (aduana)'
–551.19+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349c: 'an average annual precipitation of 43.1 in.'
–551.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935d: 'the observatory, on a rocky eminence'
–551.26+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Rangoon', 891d: 'In 1892 was introduced the sewage system, which now includes... 44 Shone's ejectors'
–551.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620a: (of Trinity College, Dublin) 'The undergraduate is called in his first year a junior freshman, in his second a senior freshman, in his third a junior sophister, and in his fourth a senior sophister'
–551.29+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620a: (of Trinity College, Dublin) 'Students after an examination are admitted as fellow-commoners, pensioners or sizars... Sizarships are awarded on examination to students of limited means, and carry certain relaxations of fees'
–552.05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Wellington', 513b: 'Wood was originally in favour as a building material, owing to the prevalence of earthquakes, but brick and stone subsequently took its place in the construction of the principal buildings'
–552.13+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 813c: 'the famous tapestry factory and dye-works (with a tapestry museum) at the Gobelins'
–552.14+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 808a: 'the palace of the Tuileries (so called in allusion to the tile kilns which occupied its site)'
–553.12+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349d: 'in 1902-1903... new executive offices and a cabinet room were built and were connected with the White House by an esplanade'
–553.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVIII, 'Mexico City', 345b: 'The Paseo de la Reforma, the finest avenue of the city... At intervals are circular spaces, called "glorietas," with statues'
–553.22+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940d: 'The walk to Hawthornden, about 1 ½ m. distant, through the lovely glen by the river-side'
–553.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 943d: 'the abbey and the neighbouring chase'
–553.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620c: 'To the west of the city lies the Phoenix Park. Here, besides the viceregal demesne and lodge and the magazine'
–553.31+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354a: 'a grand boulevard'
–554.03+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Prague', 249d: 'the Přikopy... the most animated part of modern Prague'
–572.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IX, 'Eskimo', 770d: 'On leaving a place they sometimes say "inûvdluaritse," i.e. live well' [.16-.17]
–582.08+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Taaffe, Eduard Franz Joseph von', 321d: (of the 19th century Austrian statesman's ancestors) 'From the 13th century the Taaffes had been one of the leading families in the north of Ireland. In 1628 Sir John Taaffe was raised to the peerage as Baron Ballymote and Viscount Taaffe of Corven'
–617.19+Gaping Ghyl: a 330-foot deep vertical shaft in Yorkshire (mentioned in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. V, 'Cave', 574c) [036.35]
–624.08+the oldest pyramid, at Medum, has lost its outer casing over the centuries to reveal the inner Babylonian-ziggurat-like stepped structure (a figure of it is shown in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Pyramid', 684)



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