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Danaides

Language; Encyclopedias

Daughters of Danaus, who, for murdering their husbands on the night after marriage, were doomed in the nether world to the impossible task of filling with water a vessel pierced with holes. See ...

Daman

Language; Encyclopedias

A Portuguese settlement with a port of the same name in Gujarat, India, 100 m. N. of Bombay.

Earl of Clarendon George Villiers

A Whig statesman; served as a cabinet minister under Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell twice, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Gladstone; held the office of Foreign Secretary under the three ...

Edward Daniel Clarke

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A celebrated English traveller, born in Sussex; visited Scandinavia, Russia, Circassia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Greece; brought home 100 MSS. to enrich the library of Cambridge, the ...

Earl of Crawford and Balcarres

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Better known as Lord Lindsay, and as the author of "Letters from the Holy Land," "Progression by Antagonism," and "Sketches of the History of Christian Art"; died at Florence, and was entombed at ...

Edward Cocker

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An arithmetician, and a schoolmaster by profession; wrote an arithmetic, published after his death, long the text-book on the subject, and a model of its kind; gave rise to the phrase "according to ...