5000 Facts and Fancies: A Cyclopaedia of Important, Curious, Quaint, and Unique Information in History, Literature, Science, Art, and Nature ...G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901 - 816 Seiten |
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... received its name from Charles Sumner in a speech addressed to the Senate in favor of the purchase of the territory . It is a corruption of an Aleut word referring to the continent as distinguished from the Aleutian islands ...
... received its name from Charles Sumner in a speech addressed to the Senate in favor of the purchase of the territory . It is a corruption of an Aleut word referring to the continent as distinguished from the Aleutian islands ...
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... received the name of Ama- zons , or " breastless ones . " Others derive the name from the Circassian word Maza , signifying the moon , as if this myth had taken its origin from the worship of the moon . Three nations of Amazons are men ...
... received the name of Ama- zons , or " breastless ones . " Others derive the name from the Circassian word Maza , signifying the moon , as if this myth had taken its origin from the worship of the moon . Three nations of Amazons are men ...
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... received its name from the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya , near which sal - ammoniac , one of its compounds , was once manu- factured . It was formerly called harts- horn , because in England it was made from the horns of the hart ...
... received its name from the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya , near which sal - ammoniac , one of its compounds , was once manu- factured . It was formerly called harts- horn , because in England it was made from the horns of the hart ...
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... received in one year , 12,996 died of starvation and neglect . Henry Wirz , the superintendent , was tried for cruelty , and hanged November 10th , 1865. The trenches where the prisoners were buried were converted into a national ...
... received in one year , 12,996 died of starvation and neglect . Henry Wirz , the superintendent , was tried for cruelty , and hanged November 10th , 1865. The trenches where the prisoners were buried were converted into a national ...
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... received the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society , and in August of the same year Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay were awarded by the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- ington , D. C. , the first Hodgkins prize of $ 10,000 , for ...
... received the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society , and in August of the same year Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay were awarded by the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- ington , D. C. , the first Hodgkins prize of $ 10,000 , for ...
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