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COURT OF, a judicial tribunal created by an act of Congress or by legislation of the State to decide

Clare

a maritime county of the province of Munster, Ireland. There are extensive coal fields, fisheries, and sheep and cattle pastures. Chief town, Ennis. Area, 1,332 square miles; pop. about 100,000.

Clare

JOHN, an English poet; born in Helpstone, near Peterborough, July 13, 1793. He was an agricultural laborer, absolutely uneducated; and wrote 13, 1793. He was an agricultural la- "Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery," in which a talent not far re- Scenery," in which a talent not far reand moving effects. He died in Northampton, May 20, 1864.

Clare

ST., born in 1193, of a noble

Clare College

a college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1326 by Elizabeth, sister of the Earl of Clare. It has much-admired buildings in the Renaissance style.

Clarke

CHARLES COWDEN, an English prose-writer and poet; born in Enfield, Middlesex, Dec. 15, 1787; produced "Tales from Chaucer" and "Shakespeare's Characters," besides lectures and essays innumerable; and "Carmina Minima," a volume of verse.

He died in Genoa, March 13, 1877.

Clark University

an institution at Worcester, Mass., founded in 1887 by Jones Gilman Clark, and devoted exclusively to post-graduate work. At the close of the school year 1919 the university reported: professors, 21; students, 106; dents, 106 ; volumes in the library, 85,000; president, G. Stanley Hall, LL. D.

Clavaria

a genus of fungi, some species of which are edible.

CLAVERHOUSE. See GRAHAM, JOHN.

Clay

the name of various earths,

Cleobulus

one of the seven wise men of Greece, was a native of the Isle of Rhodes, and lived in the 6th century B. C.

Cleombrotus

King of Sparta, gave battle, at Leuctra, to the the Thebans, Thebans, headed by Epaminondas, and was there killed, 371 в. c. This battle, when the Spartan army was almost entirely destroyed, put an end to the pre-eminence of Sparta in Greece.

Cleomenes

the King of Sparta who assisted in the expulsion of Happias from Athens, and interfered in its domestic affairs in other res respects, about the years 510, 508, and 504 в. c.

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