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Arnheim
Language; Encyclopedias
The capital of Guelderland, is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, and has a large transit trade.
Aspasia
Language; Encyclopedias
A woman remarkable for her wit, beauty, and culture, a native of Miletus; being attracted to Athens, came and settled in it; became the wife of Pericles, and her home the rendezvous of all the ...
Asphodel
Language; Encyclopedias
A lily plant appraised by the Greeks for its almost perennial flowering, and with which they, in their imagination, covered the Elysian fields, called hence the Asphodel Meadow.
Asphyxia
Language; Encyclopedias
Suspended respiration in the physical life; a term frequently employed by Carlyle to denote a much more recondite, but a no less real, corresponding phenomenon in the spiritual life.
Aspern
Language; Encyclopedias
A village in Austria, on the Danube, 4 m. NE. of Vienna, where a charge of the Austrians under the Archduke Charles was defeated by Napoleon, May 21, 1809, and Marshal Lannes killed.
