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• Liberia
  .../p> <p> '''3.''' The Barline tribe, living about eight days' journey north-east from Monrovia, and next interior to the Pessehs, has recently been brought
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• Marquis Of James Graham Montrose
  ...e, but not for the slow work of beleaguerment. Directing his course to the east, he passed, with fire and sword, through [[Elgin]] and [[Banff]] into Aberd
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• Stephen Olin
  ...sters, p. 383; Southern Literary Messenger, 1:15; Sherman, Sketches of New England Methodism, p. 414; Meth. Qu. Rev. July, 1852, p. 430, 477; Jan. 1854, p. 9;
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• Divination
  ...ancient world is full of miracles’ (Deissmann, <i> Light from the Ancient East </i> 2, 1911, pp. 284, 393). Divination and magic were prevalent not merely ...rinkling water on an ox. Intuitive types of divination in the ancient Near East involved oracles, prophecies, and dreams. </p> <p> In Israel, an official p
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• Newfoundland
  <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ...s of Newfoundland, therefore, are mainly Europeans, and principally from [[England]] and Ireland. Those from the last-named country predominate to such an ext
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• Fig-Tree
  ...es of the East, than they can ever do in the cold and moist regions of the north. [[Figs]] are also used medicinally, and we have a notice in , of their emp
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• Ashkelon
  ...tion.'' One of the five cities of the Philistines by the sea and ten miles north of Gaza; taken by Judah, &nbsp;Judges 1:18; visited by Samson; &nbsp;Judges ...Joshua 13:3; &nbsp;1 Samuel 6:17, a seaport on the Mediterranean, 10 miles north of Gaza. Samson went down from [[Timnath]] to Ashkelon. &nbsp;Judges 14:19.
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• Canterbury (Cantuaria Dorobernum)
  ...oyalty, and crowns the sovereign. His ecclesiastical province includes all England, except the six northern counties. Among his privileges, he can confer degr
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• John Kitto
  ...e, John, Life of Kitto (Edinb. 1857, 8vo); Lond. Athenceum, 1857, June 27; North Brit. Rev. Feb. 1847; Littell, Living Age, lii, 445 sq. (J. H. W.) </p>
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• New South Wales
  ...he religious division of the inhabitants in 1871 was as follows: Church of England, 229,243; Presbyterians, 49,122; Wesleyans, 36,277; Congregationalists, 925
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• Yorkshire
  <p> (n.) A county in the north of England. </p> ...being mainly agricultural, with iron-works and shipbuilding-works; and the North mainly pastoral, with industries connected with mining and shipping. [[Leed
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• Orissa
  ...nal inhabitants of the country. This tribe occupied an area extending from north of the Mahanaddi, south to the banks of the Godavari. Their mountain haunts
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• Gezer
  ...History of the Excavations <p> In 1904 the Palestine Exploration Fund of [[England]] obtained a "permit" for the excavation of <i> ''''' Tell Jezer ''''' </i> ...lest.'' page 85) identifies it with ''Y'Azur,'' a little village two miles east of Jaffa; but this has long since been identified with the [[Hazor]] of Eus
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• Celibacy
  ...tgesetze (Const. 1820); Lea, Sacerd. Celibacy (Phila. 1867, 8vo); Stanley, East. Church, p. 264; Milman, Lat. Christianity, 3:108 sq. (See Marriage); (See
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• Antiquaries
  ...y are rare, and when found are generally of Early English date; but in the North they are much more frequent, and were used to a considerably later period.
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• Papacy
  .../p> <p> This excess of daring arrogance brought on a fatal collapse. As in England the nobility and commons had extorted from their cowardly king the Magna Ch
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• Pericope
  ..., gave directions for the use of lessons in such services. The Church of [[England]] pursued its own plan in arranging the daily lessons. Not, content, as the
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• Councils Of Winchester
  ...ceived the pall from the anti-pope, [[Benedict]] X. Agelmar, bishop of the East Angles, and several abbots were also deposed. Walfred, bishop of Worcester,
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• Kadesh-Barnea
  ...e south, the Wilderness of [[Shur]] to the west, and the [[Arabah]] to the east (&nbsp;Genesis 16:7; &nbsp;Genesis 16:14; &nbsp;Genesis 20:1; &nbsp;Numbers ...discovered in 1842 by the Rev. J. Rowlands of Queen's College, Cambridge, England, whose discovery was endorsed by the great German geographer Ritter, by E.S
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• Tin
  ...n of manufactured tin, now in the [[Truro]] Muscum, has been discovered in England, which, as it differs from those made by the Romans, is supposed to be of P
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