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The north-eastern peninsula of the Morea of Greece, and one of the 13 provinces of Greece, is 12 m. long by 5 m. broad.
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A new element lately discovered to exist in a gaseous form in the nitrogen of the air.
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The title of a poem on the Argonautic expedition by Apollonius of Rhodes.
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The Greek heroes, sailors in the Argo, who, under the command of Jason, sailed for Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, which was guarded by a dragon that never slept, a perilous venture, but it proved successful with the assistance of Medea, the daughter of the king, whom, with the fleece, Jason in the end brought away with him to be his wife.
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The capital of Argolis, played for long a prominent part in the history of Greece, but paled before the power of Sparta.
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Daughter of Minos, king of Crete, gave to Theseus a clue by which to escape out of the labyrinth after he had slain the Minotaur, for which Theseus promised to marry her; took her with him to Naxos and left her there, where, according to one tradition, Artemis killed her, and according to another, Dionysos found her and married her, placing her at her death among the gods, and hanging her wedding wreath as a constellation in the sky.
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A city with a fine cathedral, 1500 ft. above the sea-level, NE. of Naples; has a trade in wine and butter.
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A seaport connected with Tacna, S. of Peru, the chief outlet for the produce of Bolivia; suffers again and again from earthquakes, and was almost destroyed in 1832.
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A department of France, at the foot of the northern slopes of the Pyrenees; has extensive forests and is rich in minerals.
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