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Anchovy
Language; Encyclopedias
A small fish captured for the flavour of its flesh and made into sauce.
Albany
Language; Encyclopedias
A town in W. Australia, on King George Sound, 261 m. SE. of Perth, a port of call for Australian liners; also the capital of the State of New York, on the Hudson River, a well-appointed city; seat of ...
Antium
Language; Encyclopedias
A town of Latium on a promontory jutting into the sea, long antagonistic to Rome, subdued in 333 B.C.; the beaks of its ships, captured in a naval engagement, were taken to form a rostrum in the ...
Alcala de Henares
Language; Encyclopedias
A town in Spain, the birthplace of Cervantes, 21 m. E. of Madrid, long the seat of a famous university founded by Cardinal Ximenes.
Aosta
Language; Encyclopedias
A town of Italy, N. of Turin, in a fertile Alpine level valley, but where goitre and cretinism prevail to a great extent; the birthplace of Anselm.
