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Turkestan

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A wide region in Central Asia, divided by the Pamir plateau into sections: Western Turkestan, which embraces Russian Turkestan (3,342), the Khanates of Khiva and Bokhara, and Afghan Turkestan. ...

A section of the Bantu family which originally occupied the SE. seaboard of Africa from Delagoa Bay to the Great Fish River; they are a race of superior physique and intellectual endowment, as well ...

Eli Whitney

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An American inventor, born in Massachusetts; invented the cotton-gin, a machine for cleaning seed-cotton, and became a manufacturer of firearms, by which he realised a large fortune (1765-1825).

Worthing

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A fashionable watering-place on the Sussex coast, 10½ m. SW. of Brighton; has a mild climate, fine sands, and a long wide parade.

Whitby

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A seaport and famous bathing-place in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 54½ m. NE. of York; is situated at the mouth of the Esk, and looks N. over the German Ocean; it consists of an old fishing town ...

Dick Turpin

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A felon executed at York for horse-stealing; celebrated for his ride to York in Ainsworth's "Rookwood."

Venezuela

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A federal republic in South America, founded in 1830, over three times as large as Spain, consisting of nine States and several territories; composed of mountain and valley, and in great part of ...