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John is good
Language; Encyclopedias
The King of France from 1350-1364, succeeded his father Philip VI.; in the battle of Poitiers he was arrested and brought to the United Kingdom; four years later he was allowed to return to his son ...
Tintern Abbey
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One of the most beautiful ruin of monastery, founded by the monk Cistercian Abbey in 1131 on Wye, in Monmouthshire, 5 m. on Chepstow; the link with the great poem of Wordsworth's "lines composed a ...
Metis
Language; Encyclopedias
(Wise counsel), in the Greek mythology the daughter of Oceanos and Tethys, and the first wife of Zeus; afraid lest she should give birth to a child wiser and more powerful than himself, he devoured ...
Ecclesiastes
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(The Preacher), a book of the Old Testament, questionably ascribed to Solomon, and now deemed of more recent date as belonging to a period when the reflective spirit prevailed; and it is written ...
Holland
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Officially known as the Netherlands, a small maritime country of Western Europe, bordered on its N. and W. by the German Ocean, and having Prussia on its E. and Belgium to the S.; its area, somewhat ...
Dragon
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A fabulous monster, being a hideous impersonation of some form of deadly evil, which only preternatural heroic strength and courage can subdue, and on the subdual and slaying of which depends the ...
