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kp-eb0716-033103-1168 | OIA, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Gulf of Obskaia. Long. 72. 24. E. Lat. 68. N.
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... | 68 N 72 24' E | OIA |
kp-eb0716-033201-1181 | OIL, an unctuous and inflammable substance, obtained from several natural bodies, as animal and vegetable substances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033202-1181 | OISE, a department of the north of France, formed out of the ancient Isle of France, and the districts of Beauvaisis and Valois. It extends in north latitude from 49. 7. to 49. 38. and in east longitude from 1. 28. to 3. 4. It is bounded on the north by the Somme, on the east by the Aisne, on the south by the Seine and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033203-1181 | OKEHAM, or Okham, a market-town, the capital of the county of Rutland, and situated in a rich valley called the vale of Cadmus. It is ninety-five miles from London, and has a good market on Saturday. It has an ancient castle, now converted into an assize-hall and a county jail. The parish church, dedicated to All-Saint... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033204-1181 | OKHOTZK, one of the four circles of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkoutsk. It extends along the gulfs of the Eastern Ocean, called the Seas of Okhotzk, of Kamtschatka, and of Anadir. The climate is damp and unhealthy, being exposed to thick mists, from so great an extent of ocean; and the country is not only ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033205-1181 | OKIRAH, a town of Bengal, in the district of Burdwan, 105 miles north-west from Calcutta. Long. 87.15. E. Lat. 23. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 38' N 87 15' E | OKIRAH |
kp-eb0716-033206-1181 | OLANGO, a small island amongst the Philippines, near the eastern coast of Siba. Long. 123.5l.E. Lat. 10.33.N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033207-1181 | OLCHANSKAIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Orenburg, and situated on the small river Olchanka. It contains a church and several streets, and forms part of the military line of Samara. The inhabitants consist chiefly of veteran soldiers. It is 177 miles southeast of Orenburg. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033208-1181 | OLDCASTLE, Sir John, commonly called the Good Lord Cobham, was born in the reign of Edward III. He obtained his peerage by marrying the heiress of that Lord Cobham who had strenuously opposed the tyranny of Richard II.; and, with the estate and title of his father-in-law, he seems to have acquired the patriotic and ind... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033301-1194 | OLDENBURG, a sovereign duchy in the north-east of Germany, but consisting also of two other portions separated from it, though both of them are of small extent. One of these smaller divisions in the north is called the principality of Lubeck, consisting of a small territory surrounded by the Danish territory of Holstei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 8' 33" N 8 6' 1" E | OLDENBURG |
kp-eb0716-033302-1194 | OLDHAM, one of those towns which, within the present generation, have grown up with rapidity since the establishment of the cotton manufacture. It is situated in the hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, eight miles from Manchester, and 186 from London. It stands on the river Medlock, very near the source of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033401-1207 | OLDMIXON, John, a violent party-writer and ill-natured critic, who would scarcely have been remembered, if Pope, in resentment of his abuse, had not condemned him to immortality in the Dunciad. His party-writings procured him a place in the revenue at Liverpool, where he died at an advanced age, in the year 1745. Besid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033402-1207 | OLEKMA, a river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkoutsk, and a tributary of the Lena. Its course is from south to north, and is in length nearly 600 miles. The animal which produced the sable fur formerly haunted its banks, but it has now disappeared. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033403-1207 | OLEKMINSK, a fort and small town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkoutsk. It was originally erected as a station for collecting the tribute of furs from the Yakoutes, who wander in the neighbouring districts. It has somé twenty houses and a church, and is situated about nine miles from the mouth of the Olekma.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033404-1207 | OLENEK, a considerable river of the government of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, which discharges itself into the Frozen Ocean. Long. 119. E. Lat. 73. N. The small town of Olensk is situated near the mouth of the Olenek. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 73 N 119 E | OLENEK |
kp-eb0716-033405-1207 | OLENUS, a Greek poet, older than Orpheus, who was a native of Xanthe, a city of Lycia. He composed several hymns, which were sung in the island of Delos upon festival days. Olenus is said to have been one of the founders of the oracle at Delphi; to have been the first who at that place filled the office of priest of Ap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033406-1207 | OLERON, an arrondissement of the department of the
Lower Pyrenees, in France, being 972 square miles in extent. It comprehends eight cantons, which are divided into eighty-one communes, and it contains 71,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated between the two rivers Gaves d’Aspe and Gaves ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033407-1207 | OLIGARCHY, a form of government in which the administration of affairs is confined to a few hands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | OLIGARCHY | |
kp-eb0716-033408-1207 | OLIO, or Oglio, a savoury dish, or food, composed of a great variety of ingredients. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033409-1207 | OLIVAREZ, Don Gaspar de Guzman Conde de, the favourite and minister of Philip IV. of Spain, a man of great parts and boundless ambition. After a restless and unprincipled career, he was banished to Toro, where he died about the year 1645. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033410-1207 | OLIVE’S Island, a small island lying off the south coast of New Holland, and belonging to the Nuyts Archipelago. Long. 133. 53. E. Lat. 32. 46. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 46' S 133 53' E | OLIVE’S |
kp-eb0716-033411-1207 | OLIVET, or Mount of Olives, was situated to the east of the city of Jerusalem, and separated from the city only by the brook Kedron, and by the valley of Jehoshaphat, which stretches out from the north to the south. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033412-1207 | OLIVETAN, Robert, a son of John Calvin. He printed, at Neufchatel, in 1535, folio, a version of the Bible into French, which had been translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. It is written in an uncouth and barbarous style, and is very far from being faithful. The characters in which it is printed are Gothic, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033413-1207 | OLIVIER, Claude Matthieu, advocate of the parliament of Aix, was born at Marseilles, in 1701. He had a principal share in the establishment of the academy of Marseilles, and was one of its original members. He practised at the bar with considerable success; and a few hours’ retirement from society and from his pleasure... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033414-1207 | OLLERTON, a small market-town of the county of Nottingham, in the hundred of Bassetlaw, a part of the parish [7:16:335]of Edwinston, of which it is a chapelry. It is 133 miles from London, and thirteen from Nottingham, and has a market, which is held on Friday. The population amounted in 1801 to 439, in 1811 to 462, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033501-1220 | OLMUTZ, a city of the Austrian province of Moravia, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 2090 square miles, and comprehends twenty-seven cities, twenty market-towns, and 795 villages, with 410,000 inhabitants. It is for the most part a mountainous country, and the principal rivers of the provinc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 32' 43" N 14 4' 45" E | OLMUTZ |
kp-eb0716-033502-1220 | OLNEY, a market-town in the hundred of Newport, in the county of Buckingham, fifty-six miles from London. It is built on the river Ouse, and consists chiefly of one long street. The only distinguished object is the parish church, a spacious building, with a spire 185 feet in height, being the most lofty of any in the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033503-1220 | OLONEZ, a government or stadtholderate of Russia, so called from the city of the same name, and also the river which empties itself into the Lake of Ladoga. It extends in north latitude from 60. 29. to 66. 30., and in east longitude from 29.45. to 4L 37., and has a superficies of 83,314 square miles. It is very thinly ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033504-1220 | OLOT, a large town in the north-east of Spain, in the province of Catalonia and district of Vique. It is situated on the river Fluvia, about twenty miles to the north-west of the city of Gerona, so celebrated for its gallant defence against the French. It is surrounded with walls, is tolerably well built, with several ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033505-1220 | OLPAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Broach, seven miles north from Surat. Long. 73. 1. E. Lat. 21. 18. N. It is also a small district, which was settled as a private estate on the peishwa, by the Mahratta treaty of 1803, but was afterwards taken from him on account of his treacherous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 18' N 73 1' E | OLPAR |
kp-eb0716-033506-1220 | OLUTORA, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Eastern Ocean near the peninsula of Kamtschatka. A fort has been constructed by the Russians on its bank, but this has been twice destroyed by the Koriaks, a singular race, who take the whale in nets formed of thick ropes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033507-1220 | OLYMPIA, in Ancient Geography, was surnamed Pisatis, and so called from the territory of Pisa, in Elis. According to Strabo, there was here the temple of Jupiter Olympius, before which stood a grove of wild olive trees, in which was the stadium or foot-course, so called because it was the eighth part of a mile; and by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033601-1233 | OLYMPIAD, the space of four years, by which the Greeks reckoned time. According to the most accurate and learned computation of the moderns, the first Olympiad fell exactly 776 years before the first year of Christ, or 775 years anterior to his birth, in the year of the Julian period 3938, and twenty-two years before t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033602-1233 | OLYMPIC Games were solemn games amongst the ancient Greeks, and so called from Olympian Jupiter, to whom they were dedicated. By some they are said to have been first instituted by him after his victory over the sons of Titan; whilst others ascribe their institution to Hercules (not the son of Alemena, but one of much ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033603-1233 | OM, a considerable river of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, which rises in a lake, and, after a western course of about 500 miles, falls into the Irtysch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033604-1233 | OMA, one of the Molucca Islands, about nine miles in length and six in width, containing about 5000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033605-1233 | OMAR Ebn al Khattab, the successor of Abu-Bekr. We are informed that Omar was miraculously converted to the Mahommedan faith. Before this event he is said to have been truly respectable, and in particular a violent opposer of the Arabian prophet. Mahommed, it seems, felt this opposition, and regretted it; he, therefore... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033701-1246 | OMBAY, an island in the Eastern Seas, forty-five miles in length and about thirteen in breadth. Its inhabitants are fierce and treacherous in their habits, so that it is dangerous for strangers to approach it. It is twenty miles west of Timor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033702-1246 | OMBRE, a well-known game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and played by two, by three, or by five persons, but generally by three. When three play at this game, nine cards are dealt to each party; the whole ombre pack being only forty, because the eights, nines, and tens are thrown out of the pack. There are two ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033703-1246 | OMBROMETER, an instrument to measure the quantity of rain that falls. It consists of a tin funnel, the surface of which is an inch square, with a flat board, and a glass tube set into the middle of it in a groove. The rise of the water in the tube, the capacity of which at different times must be measured and marked, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033704-1246 | OMEERSEER, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, about four miles south from Luckput Bunder. Lat. 23. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033705-1246 | OMELET, or Oaíelette, a kind of pancake or fricassee of eggs, with other ingredients, very common in Spain and in France. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033706-1246 | OMEN is a word which, in its proper sense, signifies a sign or indication of some future event, taken from the language of a person speaking without any intention to prophecy. Hence Tully says that the Pythagoreans attend to the discourse, not only of gods, but also of men, which they call omens. This sort of omen was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033801-1259 | OMER, St, an arrondissement of the department of the Pas de Calais, in France. It extends over 450 square miles, and comprises seven cantons and 136 communes, with 105,020 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Aa. It has walls, broad streets, and well-built houses, a cathedral, si... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 44' 52" N 2 9' 52" E | OMER |
kp-eb0716-033802-1259 | OMERCUNTUC, a district and town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana. It is a celebrated resort of Hindu pilgrimage. In the neighbourhood are found the sources of the three great rivers, the Soane, Nerbuddah, and the Mahanuddy, which adds to the sanctity of the place; the Hindus always evincing a great regard for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033803-1259 | OMERPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, in the province of Berar, eighty-two miles northeast from Julnapoor. Long. 77. 10. E. Lat. 20. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033804-1259 | OMMON, a district of Arabia, which comprises a portion of the southern coast extending from its eastern extremity of Rasalgate to the entrance of the Persian Gulf. In the interior it is one of the wildest parts of the country, and is little known, but is generally supposed to consist of sandy deserts. Along the coast t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033901-1272 | OMOPHAGIA, an ancient Greek festival in honour of Bacchus, surnamed Omophayo s , 'or the eater of raw flesh. This festival was observed in the same manner with the other festivals of Bacchus, in which the celebrants counterfeited madness. What was peculiar to it was, that the worshippers used to eat the entrails of goa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033902-1272 | OMPHALE, in fabulous history, a queen of Lydia, the daughter of Jardanus. She married Tmolus, who at his death left her mistress of his kingdom. Omphale having been informed of the great exploits of Hercules, wished to see so illustrious a hero; and her wish was soon gratified. After the murder of Eurytus, Hercules fel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033903-1272 | OMRATTEE, a large, fortified, and trading 'town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar. It carries on an extensive trade in cotton, which is sent to Mirzapore by land carriage, a distance of 500 miles, and is sold in this celebrated mart for quadruple its original cost. Long. 78. 20. E. Lat. 20. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 59' N 78 20' E | OMRATTEE |
kp-eb0716-033904-1272 | OMREE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, belonging to the nizam. Long. 77. 64. E. Lat. 21. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033905-1272 | OMSK, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tomsk, situated at the junction of the river Om with the Irtysch. It is intended as a barrier against the incursions of the Kirghises. It is an agreeable town, and the general’s house, the church, and the military school, are handsome edifices. It has always a garris... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033906-1272 | OMUDWARA, a district of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Malwah. It is a wild and uncultivated country, much covered with jungle; but where cultivated it is of great fertility, being intersected by the Sopra and Gilligsind Rivers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-033907-1272 | ON, in Ancient Geography, a city of ancient Egypt, sa-çred to the sun, and on that account called by the Greeks Heliopolis. It was remarkable for the wisdom and learning of its priesthood, and for the spacious building in which they cultivated the studies of philosophy and astronomy. The priests of On were esteemed mor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034001-1285 | ONATEYA, or Onatiayo, one of the Marquis of Mendoza’s Islands, about five leagues to the east of Ohittahoo. It is three leagues in circumference, and of moderate elevation, with extensive woods and plantations. Long. 138. 55. E. Lat. 9. 55. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 55' S 138 55' E | ONATEYA |
kp-eb0716-034002-1285 | ONEEHO W, one of the Sandwich Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, about forty miles in circumference. It contains abundance of yams, and a sweet root used by the inhabitants. The population is estimated at about 10,000. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034003-1285 | ONEGA, a city of European Russia, in the province of Archangel. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, both so called from the river which waters a great part of the district, and at the mouth of which the city has been built. It is a small but well-built town, containing less than 2000 inhabitants, who subsis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 63 53' 36" N 38 7' 40" E | ONEGA |
kp-eb0716-034004-1285 | ONEGLIA, a district of the province of Nice, in the kingdom of Sardinia, bounded on the south-east by the Gulf of Genoa, and on the other sides by the territory forming a part of that ancient republic. It is about ninety square miles in extent, and is almost covered with olive trees, which yield abundance of oil; besid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 53' N 8 2' E | ONEGLIA |
kp-eb0716-034005-1285 | ONEIROCRITICA, the art of interpreting dreams, or a method of foretelling future events by means of dreams. The word is formed from the Greek oνειgoς, a dream, and κξιτικη, from κpσις, judgment. Some call it oneirocratica, and derive it from lνειοος, a dream, and κgατeω, I possess, or I command. It appears from several... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034006-1285 | ONEIROCRITICS, a title given to the interpreters of dreams, or those who judged of events from the circumstances of dreams. No great regard is to be paid to those Greek books called oneirocritics ; nor do we know why the patriarch of Constantinople, and others,shouldhave amused themselves with writing on so pitiful a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034007-1285 | ONEVY, one of the Friendly Islands, in the Southern Pacific Ocean, near the north coast of Tongataboo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034008-1285 | ONGOLE, a district and town of Hindustan, in the province of the Carnatic, situated between the 15th and 16th degrees of north latitude. It was formerly dependent upon the principality of Cuddapah, and was afterwards incorporated with the Carnatic below the Ghauts, and in consequence came under the dominion of the nabo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 31' N 81 1' E | ONGOLE |
kp-eb0716-034009-1285 | ONGOLOGUR, a town of Hindustan, possessed by independent zemindars, in the province of Orissa, fifty-five miles west from Cuttack. Long. 85. 20. E. Lat. 20. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034010-1285 | ONKELOS, surnamed the Proselyte, a famous rabbi of the first century, and author of the Chaldaic Targum on the Pentateuch. He flourished in the time of Jesus Christ, according to the Jewish writers, who all agree that he was, at least in some part of his life, contemporary with Jonathan Ben Uzziel, author of the second... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034101-1298 | ONOMANCIA, or rather Onomantia, a branch of divination, which foretells the good or bad fortune of a man from the letters in his name. Upon much the same principle the young Romans were accustomed to toast their mistresses as often as there were letters in their names. Hence Martial says,
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kp-eb0716-034102-1298 | ONOMATOPOEIA, in grammar and rhetoric, a figure where words are formed to resemble the sound emitted by the things signified; as the buzz of bees, the cackling of hens, or the note of the cuckoo. Resemblances of this kind are often fancied when they are not real; though, no doubt, there are in every language some words... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034103-1298 | ONONDAGA, a post township and capital of Onondaga county, New York, a hundred and thirty miles westnorth-west of Albany, and fifty miles west of Utica. It is ten miles in length by nine in breadth. Through the eastern part a broad valley extends north and south, bounded on each side by high swelling ridges. This valley... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034104-1298 | ONORE, formerly a seaport of Hindustan, and a place of great commerce, in the province of North Canara. It is situated at the mouth of a river which communicates with a fine salt-water lake, extending nearly as far to the I east as the foot of the mountains. In 1763 it was occu-; aied by Hyder Ali, who established dock... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 18' N 74 25' E | ONORE |
kp-eb0716-034105-1298 | ONOSANDER, a Greek author and Platonic philosopher, who wrote Commentaries on Plato’s Politics, which are now lost. But his name is particularly famous for a treatise entitled Aογος 2τgατηγικος, a discourse on the duties and qualities of the general of an army, which has been translated into Latin, Italian, Spanish, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034106-1298 | ONRUST, a small island in the Eastern Ocean, on the coast of Java, and Bay of Batavia. It is nearly of a circular form, about 4800 feet in circumference. Here the Dutch had formerly fortifications and extensive works, which were destroyed by a British armament under Sir Edward Pellew, and the island is now desolate. On... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034107-1298 | ONTAREE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, belonging to an independent chief in the district of Billounjah. Long. 83. 40. E. Lat. 24. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 13' N 83 40' E | ONTAREE |
kp-eb0716-034108-1298 | ONTARIO, one of the five great lakes which separate Canada from the United States, and which are the wonder and admiration of the world. It is situated between the parallels of 43. 10. and 44. 11. of north latitude, and the meridians of 76. 25. and 79. 56. of west longitude, being the most easterly of these vast inland... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034201-1311 | ONTINIENTE, a large town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, in the department of San Felipe. It is an open town, in the vicinity of the mountains, but stands in a fruitful spot, and is remarkable for the salubrity of its climate. Figs are cultivated near it of good quality, of which about 7000 quintals are annually... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034202-1311 | ONTONG Java, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, called by Mendana, Baxos de la Candelaria. They are twenty-two in number, and are now called New Ireland. Long. 156. E. Lat. 6. 15. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 15' S 156 E | ONTONG |
kp-eb0716-034203-1311 | ONYCOMANCY, or, as some persons write it, Ony-mancy, a kind of divination by means of the nails of the fingers. 1he word is formed from the Greek oivξ, a nail, and μαντεια, divination. The ancient practice was to rub the nails of a youth with oil and soot, or wax, and to hold up the nails thus smeared against the sun, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034204-1311 | ONYX, a mineral substance usually ranked amongst gems, and which derives its name from the colour resembling that of the nail of the finger. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034205-1311 | OOCHASEER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, and district of Neyer, about twenty-five miles south-west from Theraud, which belongs to the chief of Morwara. It is surrounded by a thorn hedge instead of fortifications, and has a tank of bad water, with some excellent wells. Its inhabitants are low classes of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034206-1311 | OOCHINADROOG, a celebrated hill-fort of Hindustan, in the district of Harpoonelly. It is of great natural strength, having an abrupt ascent of very great height, particularly to the north and west, where it is almost perpendicular. It was besieged in 1793, and taken after a siege of three months, by Tippoo, who, with t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034207-1311 | OODEADARGAM, a town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. It was taken by the British in the year 1800, and now belongs to the rajah of Mysore. It gives name to a celebrated pass in the mountains, and is thirty-one miles south-east of Bangalore. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034208-1311 | OOJAIN, a celebrated city and district of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah. The district is situated between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth degrees of north latitude, and between the seventy-fifth and seventy-seventh of east longitude. The soil is in general a black vegetable mould, which is reduced during the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034301-1324 | OON, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Werrear, fifteen miles north of Rahdunpoor. The town contains about 2000 tolerably well-built houses, and the palace of the rajah. It is an open town, with one long street, which is a bazaar. 'The chief of this town is a Hindu of a low tribe, who der... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034302-1324 | OONAE, a small village of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, belonging to the Mahrattas. It has in its vicinity a remarkable hot spring, which, like all the other extraordinary phenomena of nature, is held sacred by the Hindus, and a great resort of pilgrims, who ascribe to it the most wonderful qualities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034303-1324 | OONARANG, a small European town and fort of Java, on the south coast, where the Dutch governor Janssens made his last stand when the island was attacked by the British general. It is eleven miles south from Samarang. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034304-1324 | OONIARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajracer. It is strongly fortified with a wall and round towers; the houses are mostly built of stone, and the palace is neatly constructed with a stone enclosure, surrounded by a ditch. Long. 75. 58. E. Lat. 25. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034305-1324 | OONOMAFOU, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, about six miles in length, and covered with verdure. It was discovered in 1616 by Schonten and Le Maire. Long. 175. 51. W. Lat. 15. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034306-1324 | OOREECHA, a populous town of Hindustan, belonging to the rajah of Jyenagur, in the province of Ajmeer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034307-1324 | OOREY, a town of F1industan, in the province of Agra, fifteen miles west of the river Jumna. Long. 79. 35. E. Lat. 25. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 58' N 79 35' E | OOREY |
kp-eb0716-034308-1324 | OOSCAT, a considerable town of Anatolia, in Asia Minor, situated in a hollow, surrounded on all sides by naked and barren hills. The houses are neatly constructed of brick and wood, painted like those in theother Turkish towns. The palace is a very extensive building of brick and wood, but only two stories high; and a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034309-1324 | OOSCOTTA, a fortress of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. It was occupied by the Mahrattas in the year 1688, but was taken from them by the nabob of Cuddapah, and retaken by the Mahrattas. In 1761 it was besieged and taken by Hyder Ali; and seven years afterwards it was taken by the British, but recovered ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034401-1337 | OOSSOOR, or OusooR, a fortress of Hindustan, in the southern province of Mysore. It was first taken by the British in 1768, and again in 1791. After the death of Tippoo, this town, with the province, was made over to the new rajah of Mysore. It is twenty miles south-south-east from Bangalore. Long. 72. 52. E. Lat. 12. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034402-1337 | OOSTERHOUT, a market-town of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant, and the arrondissement of Breda. It is a considerable place for making pottery ware and tiles, and has large markets three times a year for the sale of linen cloth. It is five miles to the north of Breda, and contains 6950 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034403-1337 | OOTAPALLIUM, a town and district of the south of India, in the district of Dindigul. Long. 77. 30. E. Lat. 9. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 50' N 77 30' E | OOTAPALLIUM |
kp-eb0716-034404-1337 | OOTATATOOR, a town of the south of India, in the district of Tanjore. Long. 70. 58. E. Lat. 11. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 7' N 70 58' E | OOTATATOOR |
kp-eb0716-034405-1337 | OOTRADOORG, one of the numerous fortresses with which the country of Mysore is covered. It was taken by the British in 1792. Long. 77. 17. E. Lat. 12. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 56' N 77 17' E | OOTRADOORG |
kp-eb0716-034406-1337 | OOTRIMALOOR, a town of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic. Long. 79. 50. E. Lat. 12. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 33' N 79 50' E | OOTRIMALOOR |
kp-eb0716-034407-1337 | OPALIA, in Antiquity, feasts celebrated at Rome in honour of the goddess Ops. Varro says they were held on the 19th of December, which was one of the days of the Saturnalia. These two feasts were celebrated in the same month, because Saturn and Ops were husband and wife; but the vows offered to the goddess were made si... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034408-1337 | OPARO, an island in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Vancouver in 1791. It consists of a cluster of high craggy mountains. The natives are estimated at 1500, who appeared to be well fed, and to have open and cheerful countenances. Long. 215. 58. E. Lat. 27. 36. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 36' S 215 58' E | OPARO |
kp-eb0716-034409-1337 | OPERA, a lyrical drama set to music in recitations, airs, duetts, trios, quartetts, choruses, and finales; preceded by an instrumental overture, and accompanied by an orchestra; and, when performed, enforced and embellished by action and declamation, and appropriate costumes and scenery. The opera appears to have origi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034410-1337 | OPHICLEIDE, or Keyed-Serpent. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-034411-1337 | OPHIOLOGY is composed of two Greek words, namely, lφις, a serpent, and aoyoς, a discourse, and consequently denotes that branch of zoology which treats of serpents. See Reptilia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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