Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time ; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography ; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Swedish academy , founded in 1786 , for improving the Swedish lan- guage , having eighteen members ; the academy of fine arts , history and antiqui- ties ; the military academy , academy for painting and sculpture , and for music , and ...
... Swedish academy , founded in 1786 , for improving the Swedish lan- guage , having eighteen members ; the academy of fine arts , history and antiqui- ties ; the military academy , academy for painting and sculpture , and for music , and ...
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... Swedish and Russian stoves are small furnaces , with a very circuitous smoke flue . In principle , they resemble a common stove , with a funnel bent round and round , until it has performed a great number of turns or rev- olutions ...
... Swedish and Russian stoves are small furnaces , with a very circuitous smoke flue . In principle , they resemble a common stove , with a funnel bent round and round , until it has performed a great number of turns or rev- olutions ...
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... Swedish Pomerania , on a strait which separates the island of Rugen from the main land ; 120 miles east of Hamburg ; lon . 13 ° 32 ′ E .; lat . 54 ° 19 ' N. population , 15,800 . It has a safe and capacious harbor , admit- ting ships of ...
... Swedish Pomerania , on a strait which separates the island of Rugen from the main land ; 120 miles east of Hamburg ; lon . 13 ° 32 ′ E .; lat . 54 ° 19 ' N. population , 15,800 . It has a safe and capacious harbor , admit- ting ships of ...
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... - east , Norwegian and Swedish Lapland border on Russian Lapland . The Paes , and ( since 1809 ) the Torneo and Muonio , here form the sepa- rating line between Russia and Sweden . A chain of SWAMMERDAM - SWEDEN AND NORWAY . 71.
... - east , Norwegian and Swedish Lapland border on Russian Lapland . The Paes , and ( since 1809 ) the Torneo and Muonio , here form the sepa- rating line between Russia and Sweden . A chain of SWAMMERDAM - SWEDEN AND NORWAY . 71.
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... Swedish basin of the Götha - Elf , and sinking down to the Cat- tegat ; and a third dividing the sources of the Clara , which , after flowing through lake Wener ( 1100 square miles in extent ) , in Sweden , takes the name of Götha - Elf ...
... Swedish basin of the Götha - Elf , and sinking down to the Cat- tegat ; and a third dividing the sources of the Clara , which , after flowing through lake Wener ( 1100 square miles in extent ) , in Sweden , takes the name of Götha - Elf ...
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