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| –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' |
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| –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' |
| –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' |
| –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' |
| –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' |
| –541.10+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938d: 'tributary streams have been covered in and built over' |
| –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' |
| –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' |
| –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' |
| –550.35+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 948b: (of the Tate gallery) 'by the Thames near Vauxhall Bridge' |
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