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Tehama

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A low, narrow plain in Arabia, W. of the mountain range which overlooks the Red Sea.

A magical figure of an astrological nature carved on a stone or piece of metal under certain superstitious observances, to which certain wonderful effects are ascribed; is of the nature of a charm to ...

Talus

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A man of brass, the work of Hephaestos, given to Minos to guard the island of Crete; he walked round the island thrice a day, and if he saw any stranger approaching he made himself red-hot and ...

Stalybridge

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A manufacturing town of Cheshire and Lancashire, on both banks of the Tame, 7½ m. E. by N. of Manchester; is of modern growth, and noted for its large cotton-yarn and calico factories, iron-foundries ...

Tilsit

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A manufacturing town of East Prussia, on the Memel or Niemen, 65 m. NE. of Konigsberg; here was signed in 1807 a memorable treaty between Alexander I. of Russia and Napoleon, as the result of which ...

St. Quentin

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A manufacturing town of France, on the Somme, 95 m. NE. of Paris; manufactures all kinds of cotton and woollen goods, machinery, paper, etc.; has a fine old Gothic church and town-hall; here the ...

Solingen

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A manufacturing town of Prussia, situated near the Wupper, 13 m. E. of Dusseldorf; has long been famed for its steel and iron works and cutlery manufactures.