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Cape of Storms

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Name originally given in 1486 to the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias.

Next to Lewis the largest of the Hebrides Islands, belongs to the Inner group, and is included in Inverness-shire, from the mainland of which it is separated by the narrow channel Kyle Rhea; has a ...

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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Novelist and essayist, grandson of the preceding, born at Edinburgh, where in 1875 he was called to the bar, after disappointing his father by not following the family vocation of engineering; had ...

Tobias George Smollett

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Novelist, born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, of good family; bred to medicine, but drifted to literature, in prosecution of which he set out to London at the age of 18; his first effort was a ...

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Novelist, born in Calcutta, educated at the Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge; after leaving college, which he did without taking a degree, travelled on the Continent, making long stays ...

The Temple

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Of Jerusalem, a building constructed on the same plan and for the same purpose as the Tabernacle, only of larger dimensions, more substantial and costly materials, and a more ornate style; it was a ...