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Alcoholism

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The results, acute or chronic, of the deleterious action of alcohol on the human system.

A canton in the NE. of Switzerland, enclosed by St. Gall, divided into Outer Rhoden, which is manufacturing and Protestant, and Inner Rhoden, which is agricultural and Catholic; also the name of the ...

Apple of Discord

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A golden apple inscribed with the words, "To the most Beautiful," thrown in among the gods of Olympus on a particular occasion, contended for by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodité, and awarded by Paris of ...

Appllodorus

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An Athenian painter, the first to paint figures in light and shade, 408 B.C.; a celebrated architect of Damascus, d. A.D. 129; and, an Athenian who wrote a well-arranged account of the mythology and ...

Appian Way

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A magnificent highway begun by Appius Claudius, 312 B.C., and finished by Augustus, from Rome to Brundusium.

April

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The fourth month of the year, the month of "opening of the light in the days, and of the life of the leaves, and of the voices of the birds, and of the hearts of men."