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A celebrated Italian painter, imitator of the style of Correggio (1528-1612).
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A native state of Gujerat, in the prov. of Bombay, with a capital of the same name, the sovereign of which is called the Guicowar; the third city in the presidency, with Hindu temples and a considerable trade.
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Premier of Hungary, born at Klausenburg; became in 1874 provincial prefect of Transylvania; was elected a peer on the formation of the Upper Hungarian Chamber, and was made Premier in 1893; he is a strong Liberal; b. 1841.
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A war in England of the barons against Henry III., headed by Simon de Montfort, and which lasted from 1258 to 1265.
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Ornamentation of a florid and incongruous character, more lavish and showy rather than true and tasteful; much in vogue from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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A small island, one of the Hebrides, 5 m. SW. of S. Uist, the inhabitants of which are engaged in fisheries.
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A town on the Hooghly, 15 m. above Calcutta, where the lieutenant-governor of Bengal has a residence; a healthy resort of the Europeans.
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Ballads by Rudyard Kipling, with a fine martial strain.
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The offence of inciting and stirring up riots and quarrels among the Queen's subjects, also a fraud by a ship captain on the owners of a ship.
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Viscount de Mirabeau, brother of the great tribune of the name, so called from his bulk and the liquor he held.
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