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Baarle-Hertog
(Encyclopedia) Baarle-Hertog Baarle-Hertog bärˈlə-hĕrˈtōkh [key], Fr. Baerle-Duc, town, Antwerp prov., N Belgium. A…Aversa
(Encyclopedia) Aversa Aversa ävĕrˈsä [key], city, Campania, S Italy. It is an agricultural and transportation center, noted for its sparkling white wine. It also produces…Neuilly, Treaty of
(Encyclopedia) Neuilly, Treaty ofNeuilly, Treaty ofnöyēˈ [key], 1919, peace treaty concluded between the Allies and Bulgaria after World War I. It was signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Bulgaria…Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von
(Encyclopedia) Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel vonGrimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel vonhäns yäˈkôp krĭsˈtôfəl fən grĭmˈəlshouˌzən [key], 1625–76, German novelist. Impressed into the…Ibn Tufayl
(Encyclopedia) Ibn TufaylIbn Tufaylĭˈbən t&oomacr;fālˈ [key], d. 1185/86?, 12th-century Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician, b. near Granada. His chief work was a philosophical romance, Hayy…Benoît de Sainte-More
(Encyclopedia) Benoît de Sainte-More or Benoît de Sainte-MaureBenoît de Sainte-Maurebĕnwäˈ də săNt–môrˈ [key], 1154–73, French trouvère. He was the author of the Roman de Troie, a romance in 30,000…Richards, Thomas Addison
(Encyclopedia) Richards, Thomas Addison, 1820–1900, American landscape painter, illustrator, and author, b. London. He emigrated to the United States in 1831. Richards organized and was first…Brewer's: Rasselas
Prince of Abyssinia, in Dr. Johnson's romance so called. “`Rasselas' is a mass of sense, and its moral precepts are certainly conveyed in striking and happy language. The made astronomer…Cuneo
(Encyclopedia) Cuneo Cuneo k&oomacr;ˈnāō [key], city, capital of Cuneo prov., Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Stura…Kong Karls Land
(Encyclopedia) Kong Karls LandKong Karls Landkông kärls län [key] or King Charles Land, island group, 128 sq mi (332 sq km), in the Barents Sea, part of the Norwegian possession of Svalbard, W of…Trending
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