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Cahors

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A town in the dep. of Lot, in the S. of France, 71 m. N. of Toulouse, with interesting Roman and other relics of antiquity.

Caillet

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A chief of the Jacquerie, a peasant insurrection in France in 1358, taken prisoner and tortured to death.

Caiapos

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A wild savage race in the woods of Brazil, hard to persuade to reconcile themselves to a settled life.

Caiaphas

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The High-Priest of the Jews who condemned Christ to death as a violator of the law of Moses.

Caicos

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A group of small islands connected with the Bahamas, but annexed to Jamaica since 1874.

Callistratus

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An Athenian orator, who kindled in Demosthenes a passion for his art; his Spartan sympathies brought him to grief, and led to his execution as a traitor.

Calpurnia

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The last wife of Julius Caesar, daughter of the consul Piso, who, alive to the danger of conspiracy, urged Caesar to stay at home the day he was assassinated.