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And Robinson Brown Jones

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Three middle-class Englishmen on their travels abroad, as figured in the pages of Punch, and drawn by Richard Doyle.

Arabella Fermor Belinda

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The heroine in Pope's "Rape of the Lock."

The most sacred city of the Hindus, and an important town in the NW. Provinces; is on the Ganges, 420 m. by rail NW. of Calcutta. It presents an amazing array of 1700 temples and mosques with towers ...

Benedict

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The name of fourteen popes: B. I., from 574 to 575; B. II., from 684 to 685; B. III., from 855 to 858; B. IV., from 900 to 907; B. V., from 964 to 965; B. VI., from 972 to 974; B. VII., from 975 to ...

Benedictines

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The order of monks founded by St. Benedict and following his rule, the cradle of which was the celebrated monastery of Monte Casino, near Naples, an institution which reckoned among its members a ...

Benedict XIV.

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A native of Bologna, a man of marked scholarship and ability; a patron of science and literature, who did much to purify the morals and elevate the character of the clergy, and reform abuses in the ...