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Avon
Language; Encyclopedias
The name of several English rivers, such as Shakespeare's in Warwickshire, of Salisbury in Wiltshire, and of Bristol, rising in Wiltshire.
Baalism
Language; Encyclopedias
The name given to the worship of natural causes, tending to the obscuration and denial of the worship of God as Spirit.
Babylon
Language; Encyclopedias
The capital city of Babylonia, one of the richest and most magnificent cities of the East, the gigantic walls and hanging gardens of which were classed among the seven wonders of the world; was ...
Babis
Language; Encyclopedias
A modern Persian sect founded in 1843, their doctrines a mixture of pantheistic with Gnostic and Buddhist beliefs; adverse to polygamy, concubinage, and divorce; insisted on the emancipation of ...
Bab-el-Mandeb
Language; Encyclopedias
(The Gate of Tears), a strait between Asia and Africa forming the entrance to the Red Sea, so called from the strong currents which rush through it, and often cause wreckage to vessels attempting to ...
Baber
Language; Encyclopedias
The founder of the Mogul empire in Hindustan, a descendant of Tamerlane; thrice invaded India, and became at length master of it in 1526; left memoirs; his dynasty lasted for three centuries.
