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... curious . Without disparagement of the claims of Leif Ericson to the discovery of the New World , we may regret that the names of the city of COLOMBUS and of the district of COLUMBIA form the only memorials of the bold Genoese ...
... curious . Without disparagement of the claims of Leif Ericson to the discovery of the New World , we may regret that the names of the city of COLOMBUS and of the district of COLUMBIA form the only memorials of the bold Genoese ...
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... curious picture of life in this Puritan Utopia . They enact , under severe penalties : - " That no one shall be a freeman unless he be converted . " That no one shall run on the Sabbath , or walk in his garden . " That no one shall make ...
... curious picture of life in this Puritan Utopia . They enact , under severe penalties : - " That no one shall be a freeman unless he be converted . " That no one shall run on the Sabbath , or walk in his garden . " That no one shall make ...
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... curiously enough we have , during the last two hundred years , limited its use to the DUTCH , a portion of the Teutonic race on which the Germans themselves have bestowed another name . But while the Germans call themselves the " People ...
... curiously enough we have , during the last two hundred years , limited its use to the DUTCH , a portion of the Teutonic race on which the Germans themselves have bestowed another name . But while the Germans call themselves the " People ...
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... curious glimpse into the daily life of the earliest Aryan races . The Sanskrit dakshina ( cf. the Latin dextera ) means the right hand ; and to those who daily worshipped the rising sun , the south would , of course , be the dakkhina ...
... curious glimpse into the daily life of the earliest Aryan races . The Sanskrit dakshina ( cf. the Latin dextera ) means the right hand ; and to those who daily worshipped the rising sun , the south would , of course , be the dakkhina ...
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... curiously enough , to be derived from a local name . The chief shrine of Apollo was at Delphi , and the animal , deλpic , was sacred to the Delphian god . The natural features of the country have supplied many ethnic names . From the ...
... curiously enough , to be derived from a local name . The chief shrine of Apollo was at Delphi , and the animal , deλpic , was sacred to the Delphian god . The natural features of the country have supplied many ethnic names . From the ...
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