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Kildare

a town in Kildare county, Ireland, 30 miles S. W. of Dublin .

Bridget founded a nunnery here, and the older name Druim Criaidh was changed to Cil-dara, the cell or church of the oak, from an old tree under whose shadow the saint built her cell. an KILIMA-NJARO (kil-ē-män-jä'ro), in East isolated mountain mass Africa, standing between Victoria Nyanza and the coast. The mass consists of two peaks, or rather craters, Kibo and Kimawenzi, connected by a broad saddle (14,000 feet) studded with lava hills.

Its highest point is about 19,680 feet above sea-level. Kimawenzi is than 17,250 feet high. more

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