The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge ...John Clark Ridpath Standard American publishing Company, 1897 |
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... celebrated in the E. They fight mounted on camels , naked to the waist . To the Romans they are believed to have been known under the name of Blemyes ; but after the Arab con- quest of Egypt they appear , under the collective name of ...
... celebrated in the E. They fight mounted on camels , naked to the waist . To the Romans they are believed to have been known under the name of Blemyes ; but after the Arab con- quest of Egypt they appear , under the collective name of ...
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... celebrated among astrono- mers as being the scene of the labors of the great Argelandering colossus , reaching to the roof , overlaid with a kind of before he assumed the directorship of the observatory at Bonn . See ARGELANDER ...
... celebrated among astrono- mers as being the scene of the labors of the great Argelandering colossus , reaching to the roof , overlaid with a kind of before he assumed the directorship of the observatory at Bonn . See ARGELANDER ...
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... celebrated as the place whence Xerxes and his vast army passed into Europe in 480 B.C .; also as the scene of the story of Hero and Leander . There was another A. in Upper Egypt , ( Thebais , ) on the left bank of the Nile , and on the ...
... celebrated as the place whence Xerxes and his vast army passed into Europe in 480 B.C .; also as the scene of the story of Hero and Leander . There was another A. in Upper Egypt , ( Thebais , ) on the left bank of the Nile , and on the ...
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... celebrated Museum , founded at Alexandria in the third c . it had previously existed in another form , the original institu- B.C. by Ptolemy Soter , which concentrated in that intellectual tion being due to Franklin . The A. of Sciences ...
... celebrated Museum , founded at Alexandria in the third c . it had previously existed in another form , the original institu- B.C. by Ptolemy Soter , which concentrated in that intellectual tion being due to Franklin . The A. of Sciences ...
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... celebrated . According to other accounts he was slain by Apollo , who assumed the likeness of Paris as a disguise . Achilles , ( TATIUS , ) an Alexandrian rhetorician and novelist of the 5th c . Achilles's Ten'don , ( Tendo Achillis ...
... celebrated . According to other accounts he was slain by Apollo , who assumed the likeness of Paris as a disguise . Achilles , ( TATIUS , ) an Alexandrian rhetorician and novelist of the 5th c . Achilles's Ten'don , ( Tendo Achillis ...
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