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Vilaine

a river of France which rises in the department of Mayenne and flows into the Atlantic at Penestin, in the department of Morbihan. It is 140 miles long. Its principal tributaries are the Ille, Oust, Cher, Don, and Isac.

Vilayet

a name officially applied since 1865 to the large administrative districts of Turkey.

Villafranca

a town of Italy, in the province of Verona, on the Tartaro.

It is celebrated as having been the center of the wars of 1848 and 1866. The preliminaries of peace between Napoleon III. and the Emperor of Austria were signed here, July 11, 1859. Pop. about III. and the Emperor of Austria were 12,000.

Vincent

GEORGE EDGAR, an

Vincent

ST., a Spanish martyr; born in Huesca, Spain; was imprisoned and tortured under Diocletian's reign, dying in Valencia in 304. His day is Jan. 22.

Vinegar Bible

a Bible printed 1717 at the Clarendon Press in Oxford.

So named because in the running headline of Luke xxii. vineyard was misprinted vinegar.

Vinnitza

a town of Russia, in the province of Podolia; on the Bug river; 245 miles N. N. W. of Odessa. It has several churches and synagogues, a Russo-Greek monastery, a Capuchin monastery, several schools, and a military hospital (formerly a Jesuit college).

Pop. about 50,000.

Virchow

RUDOLF, a German

Virginia

a city of Minnesota, in

Virginia

the daughter of Lucius

Virginia

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Virginia

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