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A small market-town near the head of Lake Windermere, in the Wordsworth or so-called Lake District.
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A small republic in the E. Pyrenees, enclosed by mountains, under the protection of France and the Bishop of Urgel, in Catalonia; cattle-rearing is the chief occupation of the inhabitants, who are a primitive people and of simple habits.
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A small town near Chambéry, in the dep. of Savoy, and much frequented by invalids for its waters and baths.
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A small town on the Seine, 20 m. NE. of Evreux, divided into Great and Little.
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A small village in Pas-de-Calais, where Henry V. in a bloody battle defeated the French, Oct. 25, 1415.
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A son of Apollo and the nymph Coronis, whom, for restoring Hippolytus to life, Zeus, at the prayer of Pluto, destroyed with a thunderbolt, but afterwards admitted among the gods as god of medicine and the healing art; the cock, the emblem of vigilance, and the serpent, of prudence, were sacred to him.
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A son of Atreus, king of Mycenae and general-in-chief of the Greeks in the Trojan war, represented as a man of stately presence and a proud spirit. On the advice of the soothsayer Calchas sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia for the success of the enterprise he conducted. He was assassinated by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, his wife, on his return from the war. His fate and that of his house is the subject of Aeschylus' trilogy "Oresteia."
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A son of David, who rebelled against his father, and at whose death David gave vent to a bitter wail of grief. A name given by Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II.
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