The Encyclopędia Britannica: Lord Chamberlain-MecklenbergHugh Chisholm At the University Press, 1911 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... period have cabriole legs , claw - and - ball feet and carved knees , and are sometimes sculptured with the favourite shell motive beneath the centre drawer . LOW CHURCHMAN , a term applied to members of the Church of England or its ...
... period have cabriole legs , claw - and - ball feet and carved knees , and are sometimes sculptured with the favourite shell motive beneath the centre drawer . LOW CHURCHMAN , a term applied to members of the Church of England or its ...
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... period of depression and irresolution . The betrothal , moreover , stimulated Lowell to new efforts towards self - support , and though nominally maintaining his law office , he threw his energy into the establish- ment , in company ...
... period of depression and irresolution . The betrothal , moreover , stimulated Lowell to new efforts towards self - support , and though nominally maintaining his law office , he threw his energy into the establish- ment , in company ...
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... period of return of the moon ( luna ) to the same position relative to the sun ; for example , from full moon to full moon . Its duration is 29.5305884 days . LUNAVADA , a native state in India , in the Gujarat division of Bombay . Area ...
... period of return of the moon ( luna ) to the same position relative to the sun ; for example , from full moon to full moon . Its duration is 29.5305884 days . LUNAVADA , a native state in India , in the Gujarat division of Bombay . Area ...
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... period , into Greece from the confines of the the earliest lutes were so played , but the large lutes and theorbos Byzantine Empire . As long as the strings were plucked by the length permitting this more sympathetic means of producing ...
... period , into Greece from the confines of the the earliest lutes were so played , but the large lutes and theorbos Byzantine Empire . As long as the strings were plucked by the length permitting this more sympathetic means of producing ...
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... Period in the United States , it came to mean , generally , the summary infliction of capital punishment . Lynch law is frequently prevalent in sparsely settled or frontier districts where government is weak and officers of the law too ...
... Period in the United States , it came to mean , generally , the summary infliction of capital punishment . Lynch law is frequently prevalent in sparsely settled or frontier districts where government is weak and officers of the law too ...
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