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Ayesha
Language; Encyclopedias
The daughter of Abubekr, and favourite wife of Mahomet, whom he married soon after the death of Kadijah; as much devoted to Mahomet as he was to her, for he died in her arms. "A woman who ...
Aymaras
Language; Encyclopedias
The chief native race of Peru and Bolivia, from which it would appear sprang the Quinchuas, the dominant people of Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest; attained a high degree of civilisation, ...
Axum
Language; Encyclopedias
Capital of an Ethiopian kingdom in Abyssinia, now in ruins, where Christianity was introduced in the 4th century, and which as the outpost of Christendom fell early before the Mohammedan power.
Ayacucho
Language; Encyclopedias
A thriving town in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1539, where the Peruvians and Colombians achieved their independence of Spain in 1824, and ended the rule of Spain in the S. American continent.
Aymar-Vernay
Language; Encyclopedias
A peasant of Dauphiné, who in the 17th century professed to discover springs and treasures hid in the earth by means of a divining rod.
Aylesbury
Language; Encyclopedias
A borough and market-town in Buckinghamshire, 40 m. NW. of London, in an agricultural district; supplies the London market with ducks.
Axolotl
Language; Encyclopedias
A batrachian, numerous in Mexico and the Western States, believed to be in its preliminary or tadpole state of existence.
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