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Bois-le-Duc

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Capital of North Brabant, 45 m. SE. of Amsterdam, and with a fine cathedral; seat of an archbishop.

Bois-Guillebert

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A French economist, cousin of Vauban; advocate of free trade; d. 1714.

Boii

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An ancient people of Gaul, occupying territory between the Allier and the Loire.

Boisard

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A French fabulist of remarkable fecundity (1743-1831).

Boissiere

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A French lexicographer (1806-1885).

Boiste

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A French lexicographer (1765-1824).

Bosphorus

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(Ox-ford), a channel 17 m. long and from 3 to ½ m. broad, and about 30 fathoms deep, strongly defended by forts, extending from the Sea of Marmora to the Black Sea; subject to Turkey. It derives its ...

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