The Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Chamberlain-MecklenbergHugh Chisholm At the University Press, 1911 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... early as the time of Homer . Herodotus ( iv . 177 ) describes their country as in the Libyan district bordering on the Syrtes , and says that a caravan route led from it to Egypt . Victor Bérard identifies it with the modern Jerba ...
... early as the time of Homer . Herodotus ( iv . 177 ) describes their country as in the Libyan district bordering on the Syrtes , and says that a caravan route led from it to Egypt . Victor Bérard identifies it with the modern Jerba ...
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... earliest years of his reign when he formed an intimate friendship with Richard Wagner , whom from May 1864 to December ... early years of his reign were marked by a series of most serious political defeats for Bavaria . In the Schleswig ...
... earliest years of his reign when he formed an intimate friendship with Richard Wagner , whom from May 1864 to December ... early years of his reign were marked by a series of most serious political defeats for Bavaria . In the Schleswig ...
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... early schools in Ireland . LOUTH , a market - town and municipal borough in the E. Lindsey or Louth parliamentary division of Lincolnshire , England , on the river Lud , 141 m . N. of London by the Grimsby branch of the Great Northern ...
... early schools in Ireland . LOUTH , a market - town and municipal borough in the E. Lindsey or Louth parliamentary division of Lincolnshire , England , on the river Lud , 141 m . N. of London by the Grimsby branch of the Great Northern ...
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... earliest years he found a companion in nature ; he was also early initiated into the reading of poetry and romance , hearing Spenser and Scott in childhood , and introduced to old ballads by his mother . He had for schoolmaster an ...
... earliest years he found a companion in nature ; he was also early initiated into the reading of poetry and romance , hearing Spenser and Scott in childhood , and introduced to old ballads by his mother . He had for schoolmaster an ...
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... early as 1241 Lübeck , Hamburg and Soest had combined to secure their highways against robber knights . Treaties to ... early as 1425 the herring , a constant source of early wealth , began to forsake the Baltic waters . Later on , by ...
... early as 1241 Lübeck , Hamburg and Soest had combined to secure their highways against robber knights . Treaties to ... early as 1425 the herring , a constant source of early wealth , began to forsake the Baltic waters . Later on , by ...
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