Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

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Encyclopedias

Or Speyer, an old German town on the left bank of the Rhine, in the Palatinate, 14 m. SW. of Heidelberg, the seat of a bishop and with a cathedral, of its kind one of the finest in Europe, and the ...

Cross of Tau

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Or St. Anthony's Cross, a cross resembling the letter T.

Suliman

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Or Suleiman Mountains, a bare and rugged range, stretching N. and S. for upwards of 350 m. from the Kyber Pass almost to the Arabian Sea, and forming the boundary between Afghanistan and the Punjab, ...

Sunderbunds

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Or Sundarbans, a great tract of jungle, swamp, and alluvial plain, forming the lower portion of the Ganges delta; extends from the Hooghly on the W. to the Meghna on the E., a distance of 165 m.; ...

Suwarrow

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Or Suvoroff, Russian field-marshal, born at Moscow; entered the army as a private soldier, distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War, and after 20 years' service rose to command; in command of a ...

Swerga

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Or Svarga, the summit of Mount Meru, the Hindu Olympus, the heaven or abode of Indra and of the gods in general.

taboo

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Or Tabu, a solemn prohibition or interdict among the Polynesians under which a particular person or thing is pronounced inviolable, and so sacred, the violation of which entails malediction at the ...