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a town of Czecho- Slovakia, at the junction of the Chrudimka and the Elbe rivers. Prior to the World War it was in a province of Bohemia and part of the former Austro- Hungarian empire. It has a palace, several churches and public institutions. Before the war there were manufactories of spirits, sugar, agricultural implements, lumber and flour. Pop. (1910) 20,419.
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a term of relationship applicable to those from whom we immediately receive our being. Parents, by the law of the land, as well as by the law of nature, are bound to educate, maintain, and defend their children, over whom they have a legal as well as a natural power; they likewise have interests in the profits of their children's labor, during their nonage, in case the children live with and are provided for by them; yet the parent has no interest in the real or personal estate of a child, otherwise than as his guardian.
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a sentence or part of a sentence inserted in the middle of another sentence, with the subject of which it is cognate, but from which it may be omitted without impairing the grammatical construction or the substantial meaning. It is commonly marked off by upright curved lines ( ), but frequently also by dashes
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a form of paralysis, called softening of the brain, characterized by chronic progressive psychosis, affecting the nervous system in early adult life, with increasing mental degeneration, ending in death. The indication of the disorder is first shown in the moods of the patient, who becomes irritable, slovenly, and distrait. Detail loses attraction for him, and he is full of grandiose plans, new in him, and beyond his ordinary capacity. With increasing incapacity a sense of his own importance is gradually developed, and he revels in
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GULF OF, an inlet of the Atlantic on the N. E. coast of South America, between the island of Trinidad and mainland of Venezuela, inclosed on the N. by the Peninsula of Paria. It possesses good anchorage, and receives some arms of the Orinoco.
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GULF imaginary magnificence, either anticipatory or retrospective. Meanwhile his physical condition is lowered, and he becomes increasingly unable to attend to his own wants. His irritability may lead him into unrestrained profanity of language or indecency of behavior. There are strong emotional periods. His limbs and features tremble, articulation becomes impaired, as well as the power of writing. Finally, after a period seldom extending over five years, paralysis and convulsions bring death from exhaustion, though a complication of diseases is apt to hasten the process. The disease is much more frequent in men than in women, and is apt to first show itself in the late thirties or the forties. The almost invariable cause is now believed to be syphilis, aggravated by alcoholic or similar excess, sunstroke, and injury to the nervous system. In the early stages rest, diversion, diet and hydropathic treatment will help the patient. In the later stages constant attendance at home or in a hospital becomes imperative.
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in southern India, one of that section of the community with which even the lowest recognized castes will not eat, though there are Hindus inferior even to the pariahs. The latter are Turanian, and originally constituted that section of the aborigines of the S. of India who submitted to the Aryan and other conquerors during the successive invasions of the land. Many pariahs are servants of Europeans, s, hence more civilized than the castes above them; and a number of them have embraced Christianity.
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a white, largegrained and considerably translucent marble, called by the Greeks lychintes, from lychnos = light, because quarried by lamplight. It was the most celebrated statuary marble of antiquity, and was found in the island of Paros, also in Naxos and Tenos. The celebrated statues of the Venus de Medicis, the Venus Capitolini, etc., are made of this marble.
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LOUIS ALBERT PHILIPPE, D'ORLEANS, COUNT OF. See ORLÉANS.
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DECLARATION OF. In 1856 the representatives of the Powers
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UNIVERSITY OF, a notable French institution that came into existence in the beginning of the 13th century, and was long the most famous center of learning in Europe. It was suppressed by a decree of the Convention of 1793.
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This is a good cement for attaching letters to windows. Apply warm to heated surfaces where possible. Cement for Glass and Metals. The following cement is used extensively for fastening brass and enamel letters to show windows: Mix together boiled linseed oil, 5 parts; copal varnish, 15 parts; glue, 5 parts; and oil of turpentine, 5 parts; add to this solution 10 parts of slaked lime and thoroughly incorporated. Cement for Knife and Fork Handles. Melt 2 parts of pitch and stir in 1 part of sand or brick dust; fill the cavity in the handle with the mixture, and push in the previously heated tang. Cement for Paper and Metals. Dissolve dextrine in water, adding 20 parts of glycerine and 10 parts of glucose. Coat the paper with this mixture, and, after rubbing the metal with a piece of onion, attach the paper.
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By some he is said to have been killed by one of the arrows of Philoctetes which had once belonged to Hercules . Parnassus, A mountain of Phocis sacred to the Muses, and to Apollo and Bacchus . It was named thus after a son of Neptune who bore that designation. Lord Byron alludes to it in Childe Harold, canto i.: "Oh, thou Parnassus! whom I now survey, Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye, Not in the fabled landscape of a lav, But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky, In the wild pomp of mountain majesty!" 2026 Editor's Note: Paris of Troy is best known for his abduction of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, an act that directly triggered the Trojan War. This story has inspired art for millennia, from Classical Greek pottery to Christopher Marlowe's famous line about 'the face that launched a thousand ships.' (Ed: BR 2026-06-17)
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The son of Priam, king of Troy, and Hecuba ; he was also called Alexander . He was destined before his birth to cause the ruin of his country, and before he was born his mother dreamt that he would be a torch which would set fire to her palace. The soothsayers predicted that he would be the cause of the destruction of Troy. In consequence of these foretold calamities, Priam ordered a slave to destroy the child immediately after birth, but instead of acting thus the slave exposed the child on Mount Ida, where some shepherds found him and took care of him. Paris gave early proofs of courage, and his graceful countenance recommended him to Oenone, a nymph of Ida, whom he married. At the marriage of Peleus and Thetis the goddess of discord, who had not been invited, showed her displeasure by throwing into the assembly of the gods, who were at the nuptials, a golden apple, on which were the words: Let it be given to the fairest. The apple was claimed by Juno , Venus , and Minerva. Paris, who had been appointed to award it to the most beautiful of the three goddesses, gave it to Venus. Subsequently Paris visited Sparta , where he persuaded Helen, wife of Menelaus, the most beautiful woman of the age, to elope with him. This caused the Trojan war. Different accounts are given of the death of
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