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kp-eb0716-065204-5342 | ORRERY, a curious machine for representing the motions or phases of the heavenly bodies. The ïcason of its being called an Orrery was this: Mr Rowley, a mathematical-instrument maker, having got one from Mr George Graham, the original inventor, to be sent abroad with some of his own instruments, he copied it, and made ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065205-5342 | ORSKAIA, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Orenburg, situated on the Or, about a mile and a half before its junction with the Oural. The Asiatic caravans usually pass this river here in their way to Orenburg. The town of Orenburg was originally built unon this spot. Orskaia is 132 miles east of Orenburg | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065206-5342 | ORTEGAL, Cape, the most northern promontory of Spain, where there is also a castle of the same name. Long. 8. 20. W. Lat. 44. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 0' N 8 20' W | ORTEGAL |
kp-eb0716-065207-5342 | ORTELIUS, Abraham, a celebrated geographer, born at Antwerp in the year 1527. He was well skilled in languages and the mathematics, and acquired such reputation by his knowledge in geography, that he was surnamed the Ptolemy of his time. Justus Lipsius, and most of the great men of the sixteenth century, were the frien... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065208-5342 | ORTHEZ, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France, 616 square miles in extent, containing seven cantons, 157 communes, and 83,600 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the Gave de Pau. It contains 1000 houses, and 7300 inhabitants, who are occupied in making flann... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 32' N 0 50' W | ORTHEZ |
kp-eb0716-065209-5342 | ORTHODOX, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation given to those who are sound in ail the articles of the Christian faith. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065210-5342 | ORTHOGRAPHIC Projection of the Sphere, that in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance. It is so called, because the perpendiculars, from any point of the sphere, will all fall in the common intersection of the sphere with the plane of the projection. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065211-5342 | ORTHOGRAPHY, that part of grammar which teaches the nature and affections of letters, and the just method of spelling or writing words, with all the proper and necessary letters. It forms one of the four great divisions or branches of grammar.
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kp-eb0716-065301-5355 | ORTHOPNOEA, a species or degree of asthma, where there is such a difficulty of respiration that the patient is obliged either to sit or stand upright in order to be able to breathe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065302-5355 | ORTHOSA, or Ortoso, a small seaport of Syria, in the pachalik of Tripoli, on the coast of the Mediterranean, about twelve miles north of Tripoli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065303-5355 | ORTIVE, in Astronomy, the same with eastern. The ortive or eastern amplitude, is an arch of the horizon intercepted between the place where a star rises, and the east point of the horizon, or point where the horizon and equator intersect. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065304-5355 | ORTON, a market-town of the county of Westmoreland, in the east ward, 274 miles from London, and eight from Appleby. It has a market, which is held on Wednesday, Dr Burn, the author of the “Justice,” and of some antiquarian local works, was long vicar of the parish church, a very large old building. The population in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065305-5355 | ORTONE a Mare, a city of Italy, on the sea-shore, in the province of Abbruzzo Citeriore, of the kingdom of Naples. It is situated near to Cape Aquabella, is surrounded with walls, is the see of a bishop, and contains 5680 inhabitants. It has no haven, but a good roadstead. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065306-5355 | ORURO, the name of a department, and also of a province, of the republic of Bolivia, in South America. The department so called contains the three provinces of Paria, Oruro, and Caraugas. The whole district forms part of a very high table-land, perfectly level, and elevated more than 12,000 feet above the level of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065307-5355 | ORVIETO, a city of Italy, in the delegation Viterbo, in the papal dominions. It stands on a tuffstein rock, on the banks of the Paglia, and has a magnificent cathedral with some very fine paintings, a noble episcopal palace, with several other churches, and fourteen convents or monasteries for the professed of both sex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 49' 24" N 12 2' 26" E | ORVIETO |
kp-eb0716-065308-5355 | OSACCA, a large city of Japan, the port of Meaco. It is situated at the mouth of a considerable river, and at the head of a bay of the same name. It is the seat of an extensive trade, and one of the most flourishing cities of the empire. A quantity of earth is found in the neighbourhood, which is exported to all parts ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065309-5355 | OSAGE, a large river of North America, and one of the affluents of the Missouri. (See the article Missouri.) This is also the name of a tribe of Indians who inhabit that part of the Missouri territory through which the river flows during the first part of its course. They likewise extend across the country to the Arkan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065310-5355 | OSARA, or Asara, a village in the Syrian desert, near the Euphrates, 170 miles east-south-east of Aleppo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065311-5355 | OSCHA, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Irtysch, in the government of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065312-5355 | OSCHOPHORIA, a festival celebrated by the Athenians, and which receives its name άπο του <ρεgειν τας οσχας, from carrying boughs hung with grapes, which were called δσχαn The original institution is mentioned by Plutarch. Theseus, on returning from Crete, forgot to hang out the white sail, by which his father was to be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065401-5368 | OSENOKA, a small river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Kolyma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065402-5368 | OSENEY Island, in England, is formed by the river Isis, in the meadows near Oxford, where a magnificent abbey was erected at the instigation of a concubine of Henry I. to atone for her sins; and the same king built a palace there, in which Richard I. was born, and which Edward II. converted into a monastery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065403-5368 | OSILO, a city of the island of Sardinia, in the diocese of Tassari, in the northern division. It stands on the top of a mountain, in a very healthy situation, and contains 5430 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065404-5368 | OSIMO, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Ancona, in the papal dominions. It is situated on an elevated and healthy situation, with most picturesque scenery around it. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral and various other churches, as well as monastic establishments for both sexes, and is inhabited, besid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065405-5368 | OSIRIS, in Mythology, one of the gods of ancient Egypt, and by many believed to have been the Sun, or at least the mind actuating that luminary.
The Egyptians derived all things from two principles; one active, and the other passive. Their active principle, according to Jablonski, was an infinite and eternal Spirit; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065501-5381 | OSKOL-STAROI, a city of Russia, in the government of Kursk, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the mouth of the river Oskolka, and has eight churches, a nunnery, 813 houses, and 6000 inhabitants, amongst whom many are occupied in the iron trade. It is 904 miles from St Petersburg. Long. 37. 29. E. L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 15' N 37 29' E | OSKOL-STAROI |
kp-eb0716-065502-5381 | OSMANJIC, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the government of Sivas, 140 miles north-west of Sivas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065503-5381 | OSMANSKOI, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Kolivan, on the Irtysch, 201 miles westsouth-west of Kolivan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065504-5381 | OSNABRUCK, or Osnaburg, a province of the kingdom of Hanover. It has been formed out of the ancient sequestered bishopric of that name, which by the treaty of Westphalia had been fixed to be held in sovereignty alternately by a Catholic and a Protestant prince; and in consequence it came under the government of the lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 16' 45" N 7 33' 40" E | OSNABRUCK |
kp-eb0716-065505-5381 | OSORIUS, Jerome, a Portuguese ecclesiastic, was descended of a noble family, and born at Lisbon in the year 1500. He was educated at the University of Salamanca, and afterwards studied at Paris and Bologna. On his return to Portugal he gradually rose till he obtained the bishopric of Sylves, to which he was appointed b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065506-5381 | OSSA, a lofty mountain of Thessaly, near the Peneus, which runs between this mountain and Olympus; it was famous in the fabulous story of the giants.
Ossa, a town of the island of Gilolo, situated on the southern side of a great bay of the same name. It affords water, provisions, timber for spars, and other necessary ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 45' S 128 22' E | OSSA |
kp-eb0716-065601-5394 | OSSAT, Arnaud d , , a celebrated cardinal, and one of the most remarkable men of his time, was born at Laroque-en-Magnoac, a village in the diocese of Auch, in the year 1536. In the strictest sense of the Spanish expression, he was “the son of his own works.” There is reason to believe that his father, who died in dist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-065701-5407 | OSSIAN, the son of Fingal, a celebrated Celtic bard, who is commonly supposed to have flourished about the end of the second or the beginning of the third century.
Several incidents in the poems ascribed to him are conceived to point out this as the era of the poet; particularly the engagement of Fingal with Caracul, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066601-5524 | OSSIFICATION, in the animal economy, the formation of the bones, but more particularly the conversion of parts naturally soft to the hardness and consistency of bones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066602-5524 | OSTADE, Adrian van, an eminent Dutch painter, was born at Lubeck in 1610. He was a disciple of Francis Hals, in whose school Brouwer was contemporary with him, and in it they contracted an intimate friendship. The subjects of his pencil were always of a low kind; he had nearly the same ideas as Teniers, and diverted hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066603-5524 | OSTEND, a city of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders, and circle of Bruges. It stands on the sea-shore, with a good harbour, and two basins. The entrance to the harbour is narrow, and only passable at high water; and at low water the vessels within are aground. The mouth of the haven is defended by two forts, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 13' 37" N 2 28' 48" E | OSTEND |
kp-eb0716-066701-5537 | OSTEOCOLLA, iστtοκοk ∖ α, in Natural History, a white or ash-coloured sparry substance, in shape like a bone, and by some supposed to have the quality of uniting broken bones. It is found in long, thick, and irregularly cylindrical pieces, which are in general hollow, but are sometimes filled up with a marly earth, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066702-5537 | OSTEOLOGY is that part of anatomy which treats of the bones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066703-5537 | OSTERODE, a city of Hanover, in the province of Grubenhagen and bailiwick of Eimbeck. It is situated at the foot of the Hartz Mountains, on the rivers Sose and Apente, and is surrounded with walls. It contains 760 houses, with 4500 inhabitants. It has a gymnasium with six professors, and contains an extensive corn maga... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 14' 15" N 10 11' 24" E | OSTERODE |
kp-eb0716-066704-5537 | OSTERVALD, John Frederic, a celebrated Protestant divine, was born at Neufchatel in 1663. He made such rapid progress in his studies that he became master of arts at Samur before he was sixteen years of age; and he afterwards studied at Orleans and at Paris. On his return to Neufchatel in 1699 he became pastor of the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066705-5537 | OSTERWICK, a city belonging to the Prussian province of Saxony, and the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 270 square miles, and contains 36,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Ise, and is fortified. It contains 480 houses, with 2850 inhabitants, who are occupied in various manufact... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 58' 18" N 10 36' 48" E | OSTERWICK |
kp-eb0716-066706-5537 | OSTIA, a town on the eastern coast of Italy, in the territory of the Roman see. It stands near that mouth of the river Tiber called Bocca del Fiumecino, in a marshy and unhealthy spot. It is the seat of a bishop, whose diocese is united* with that of Velletria, and contains a large and fine cathedral. It is not on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 45' 38" N 12 10' 30" E | OSTIA |
kp-eb0716-066707-5537 | OSTIAKS, an Asiatic tribe, who form the greater proportion of the native population of Siberia. They chiefly inhabit the banks of the Obi, in the government of Tobolsk, extending northward along the river to the frontier of the Samoiedes. They are extremely rude in their habits and manners. Considering indolence as the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066801-5550 | OSTRACISM, in Grecian antiquity, denotes the banishment of such persons as by their merit or their influence gave umbrage to the people of Athens, lest they should attempt any thing against the public liberty. This punishment was called ostracism, from the Greek word cffr^α- κoν, which properly signifies a shell ; but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066901-5563 | OSTRACITES, a name applied to the fossil oysters which are so common in many parts of England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066902-5563 | OSWESTRY, a market-town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Salop, 182 miles from London, and seventeen from Shrewsbury. It is situated in a fertile district, and has a good market, which is held on Wednesday. Being a frontier town towards Wales, in ancient times it was an important place, frequently hara... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066903-5563 | OSYMANDES, or Osymandyas, a famous king of Egypt. According to some, he was the first monarch who collected a great number of books for the purpose of forming a library; and this curious collection he is said to have entitled Pharmacy of the Soul. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066904-5563 | OTABALO, a district or jurisdiction of South America, in the republic of Colombia, and department of the Equator or Quito. It contains eight towns or villages, the lands belonging to which are laid out in plantations, consisting principally of the sugar-cane; but wheat and barley both thrive uncommonly well. A number o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066905-5563 | OTAHA, one of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, situated to the north of Ulietea, and surrounded with rocks. It was visited by Captain Cook in 1769, and afterwards, in 1791, by Captain Edwards. Long. 151. 20. W. Lat. 16. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 53' S 151 20' W | OTAHA |
kp-eb0716-066906-5563 | OTAHEITE, or Tahiti, a celebrated island of the South Sea, situated in west longitude 149. 13. and south latitude 17.46., discovered by Captain Wallis in 1767. See the article Polynesia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-066907-5563 | OTAKOOTAI, or Wenooaette, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, about three miles in circumference, discovered by Captain Cook in 1777. Long. 201. 37. E. Lat. 19. 51. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 51' S 201 37' E | OTAKOOTAI |
kp-eb0716-066908-5563 | OTHO, Μ. Salvius, a Roman emperor, born in the year 32, and of a family which claimed descent from the ancient kings of Etruria. Being among the number of Nero’s favourites, he was raised to the highest offices of the state, and made governor of Pannonia, by the interest of Seneca, who wished to remove him from Rome, l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067001-5576 | OTLEY, a town of the west riding of Yorkshire, in the wapentake of Skrack, 205 miles from London, and ten from Leeds, with a market on Tuesday. It is situated in a beautiful valley on the river Wharffe. The parish is very extensive, containing three chapelries and ten townships. The population of the town amounted in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067002-5576 | OTODINI, ancient Britons, who, as some suppose, occupied the countries now called Northumberland, Merse, and the Lothians, to the north-east of the Brigantes. As the Otodini are not mentioned by any of the Roman historians, and noticed only by Ptolemy, it is consequently uncertain whether they formed a distinct and ind... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067003-5576 | OTRAHERMANA, La, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the west coast of Lucon. Long. 120. 6. E. Lat. 15. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 55' N 120 6' E | OTRAHERMANA |
kp-eb0716-067004-5576 | OTRANTO, a province of the kingdom of Naples, on the Italian continent. It is the north-eastern corner of the kingdom, a kind of peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, extending in north latitude from 39. 47. to 40. 48., and in east longitude from 16. 44. to 18. 41. The other boundaries on the land side are, on the north-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067005-5576 | OTTAJANO, a city of Italy, in the province Terra di Lavoro, in the kingdom of Naples. It is a large place, in a district producing considerable quantities of silk and olive oil, and abundant crops of corn. It contains three parish churches, and, including the adjacent village, 14,200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067006-5576 | OTTERBURN, a township in the parish of Eilsdon, of the county of Northumberland, and ward of Coquetdale, 308 miles from London, and thirty-two from Newcastle. It is remarkable for the battle fought there in +fl88 r between Henry Percy, usually called Hotspur, and the Earl of Douglas, a conflict which gave rise to the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067007-5576 | OTTERY, St Mary, a market-town of Devonshire, in the hundred of the same name, and 167 miles from London. It is situated on the river Otter, has a market which is held on Tuesday, some trade in making serges, and some in pillow-lace. In 1801 the population amounted to 2415, in 1811 to 2880, in 1821 to 3522, and in 1831... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067008-5576 | OTTICOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, thirty-three miles north-east from Madras. Long. 81. 1. E. Lat. 13.21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 21' N 81 1' E | OTTICOTTA |
kp-eb0716-067009-5576 | OTUNGURRA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Chuta Nagpore. Long. 85.42. E. Lat. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 N 85 42' E | OTUNGURRA |
kp-eb0716-067010-5576 | OTWAY, Thomas, an eminent tragic poet, was the son of Mr Humphrey Otway, rector of Woolbeding, in Sussex, and was born at Trottin, in that county, on the 3d of March 1651. He received the rudiments of his education at Winchester school, and in 1669 was entered a commoner of Christ-Church; but, from whatever cause, he l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 51' S 143 29' E | OTWAY |
kp-eb0716-067201-5602 | OTWEILER, a city of Prussia, in the province of the Lower Rhine, in the government of Treves. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 178 square miles, and comprehends three towns and forty-seven communes, with 17,500 inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Blies, and contains two chur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067202-5602 | OUCH, a very ancient town of Hindustan, in the province of Moultan, the capital of a district, and probably the Oxydracae of the Greeks. It is situated between the river Indus and the Sutlege or Hyphasis, and within the territories of the Bahawulpoor rajah. It is seventy-five miles south by west from the city of Moulta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 11' N 70 50' E | OUCH |
kp-eb0716-067203-5602 | OUDANULLA, a small town of Bengal, in the district of Rajemahl, situated at the foot of a range of hills which approach near to the western bank of the Ganges. Near the town are the remains of a handsome stone bridge, a very fine specimen of modern Mahommedan architecture, built by the Sultan Sujah between 1640 and 166... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 55' N 87 45' E | OUDANULLA |
kp-eb0716-067204-5602 | OUDE, a province of Hindustan, situated between the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth degrees of north latitude. On the north it is bounded by various petty districts tributary to Nepaul, from which it is separated by intervening hills and forests; on the south by Allahabad; on the east by Bahar; and on the west by Delhi ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 45' N 82 10' E | OUDE |
kp-eb0716-067401-5629 | OUDENARDE, a circle of the province of East Flanders, in Belgium, divided into eight cantons and 119 communes, and containing 156,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of that name, situated in a fertile valley on the banks of the Scheldt. It is well built, and contains 950 houses, with 5300 inhabitants, who carry o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067402-5629 | OUDEYPOOR, a Rajpoot principality in the province of Ajmeer, of which it occupies the south-eastern quarter. It is situated between the 24th and 26th degrees of north latitude. This territory formerly bore the appellation of Mewar or Meyar, and its chief is frequently styled in history the Rana of Chitore. So disorderl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067601-5655 | OUDGHIR, a populous village of Hindustan, situated in the province of Bejapore, with a small fort and handsome cypress garden. It is in the nizam’s dominions, and is 115 miles north-west from Hyderabad. Long. 77. 25. E. Lat. 18. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 19' N 77 25' E | OUDGHIR |
kp-eb0716-067602-5655 | OUEINING, a city of China, of the first rank, situated on a fine lake in an extensive plain, surrounded with high mountains. Long. 103. 50. E. Lat. 26. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 45' N 103 50' E | OUEINING |
kp-eb0716-067603-5655 | OUE-KIUN, a city of China, of the first rank, in Honan, being situated on a river, in a sandy plain and barren soil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067604-5655 | OUEN-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in Tchekiang, situated on a river, with a good harbour. Long. 129. 29. E. Lat. 28. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 1' N 129 29' E | OUEN-TCHEOU |
kp-eb0716-067605-5655 | OUFA, a considerable city of Asiatic Russia, and capital of the government of Orenburg. It is situated on the banks of the Belaia, near its junction with the Oufa; part of it is a species of hollow resembling a cavern, and its site is intersected by numerous torrents and ravines. It was built in 1573, by the Czar Ivan ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 42' N 56 18' E | OUFA |
kp-eb0716-067606-5655 | OUGHTRED, William, an eminent mathematician, was born at Eton in 1573, and educated in the school there, whence he was elected to King’s College, Cambridge, of which he afterwards became fellow. Being admitted to holy orders, he left the university about the year 1603, and was presented to the rectory of Aldbury, near ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067607-5655 | OUKESIMA, an island in the Chinese Sea, near the coast of Tonquin, about thirty miles in circumference, Long. 105. 42. E. Lat. 18. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 44' N 105 42' E | OUKESIMA |
kp-eb0716-067608-5655 | OULLER Lake, a lake of Hindustan, in the province of Cashmere, into which the river Behüt or Jhylum pours its stream. Long. 73. 50. E. Lat. 34. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 22' N 73 50' E | OULLER |
kp-eb0716-067609-5655 | OUNCE, a weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and the twelfth part of a pound troy. The word is derived from the Latin, uncia, the twelfth part of any whole, called as ; and, in geometrical measures, an inch, or twelfth part of a foot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067610-5655 | OUND, a village of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Bejapoor. The surrounding district is the property of Scindia’s family. It is nine miles from Poonah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067611-5655 | OUNDLE, a market-town of the county of Northampton, and the hundred of Polebrook, seventy-eight miles from London, and sixteen from Stamford. It has a good market, which is held on Saturday, and is nearly surrounded by the river Nen, over which are two bridges, one of them a curiosity, from the number of its arches, as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067612-5655 | OURCHA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, [7:16:677]and district of Bundelcund. The rajah was formerly a person of great note; but his revenue is now reduced to one lac, and his consequence has sunk in proportion. He is still considered as the head of the petty chiefs of Bundelcund. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067701-5668 | OURAL Mountains, a remarkable and extensive range of mountains, which has its commencement in the interior of Asia, in the territory of the Kirghisses, between the Caspian and the Aral, and stretches about due north along the sources of the Oural, the Tobol, the Emba, the Petchora, and the Sosva, by a course very imper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067702-5668 | OURALSK, a large and populous city, with narrow and πτegularly built houses, the capital of the Oural Cossacks. The male inhabitants, who amount to 3600, are divided into seven regiments, which are under the general superintendence of the governor-general of Orenburg. They are chiefly employed in taking fish, which are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067703-5668 | OURFA. See Orfa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067704-5668 | OUROOMIA, or Ooromia, the chief town of a district or government of the same name, in Persia, situated on a large lake, also of the same name, in the province of Azerbijan. It is an ancient city, which, according to Sir Robert K. Porter, once bore the name of Thebarma; and is mentioned as a place of some consequence by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067705-5668 | OURRY’S Island, or New Alderney, an island in; the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Carteret.
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kp-eb0716-067801-5681 | OUSE, Greater, a river which rises near Fitwell, in Oxfordshire, and proceeds to Buckingham, Stony Stratford, and Newport-Pagnel, in Buckinghamshire; from thence it proceeds to Bedford, and turning north-east, it passes on to Huntingdon and Ely, till at length it arrives at Lynn-Regis, in Norfolk, and falls into the se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067802-5681 | OUSSOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Mysore rajah’s territories, which surrendered to a British detachment in 1791. Long. 78. E. Lat. 12. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067803-5681 | OUTCHANG-FOU, a city of China, of the first rank, situated on the great river Yang-tse-kiang, at its junction with the Han. It is the capital of the province of Houquang, and when joined to Hang-yang-fou, situated on the opposite side of the river, and forming properly one with it, it ranks with the largest cities in C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067804-5681 | OU-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Quang-see. It is favourably situated for commerce, as the whole rivers of the province meet under its walls in their progress to Quang-tong. The surrounding country is mountainous. The rhinoceros is found in the neighbouring rivers. Long. 110. 32. E. Lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067805-5681 | OUTING, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Yunan, situated in a fertile country, near a range of very rugged mountains, which yield abundance of musk. It is exposed to the inroads of the mountaineers, for which reason a considerable garrison is maintained in the place. Long. 102. 6. E. Lat. 25. 53. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 53' N 102 6' E | OUTING |
kp-eb0716-067806-5681 | OUTLAW signifies one who is deprived of the benefit of the law, and therefore held to be out of the king’s protection. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067807-5681 | OUTLAWRY, the punishment of a person who, being called into court, and sought, according to the usual forms, does contemptuously refuse to appear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067808-5681 | OUVAROFSKOI, a fort of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tomsk. It is agreeably situated, contains twenty houses, and has been erected as a bulwark against the Kirghisses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067809-5681 | OVAL, an oblong curvilinear figure, otherwise called ellipse. The proper oval, or egg shape, however, differs considerably from that of the ellipse, being an irregular figure, narrower at one end than at another; whereas the ellipse or mathematical oval is equally broad at each end. But it must be owned that these two ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067810-5681 | OVATION, in Roman antiquity, was a lesser triumph, allowed to commanders for victories won without the effusion of blood, or for defeating a mean and inconsiderable enemy. The show generally began at the Alban Mountain, whence the general with his retinue made his entry into the city on foot, with many flutes or pipes ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067811-5681 | OVEN, a kind of domestic furnace, used for baking bread, pies, tarts, and the like. It is of a <(rcular structure, with a very low roof, well lined both on the top, bottom, and sides, with stone; and it has a small entrance in the front, fitted with a door, which being clapped to the mouth of the oven, confines the hea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067812-5681 | OVERALL, John, a celebrated English bishop, was born in 1559, and, after a proper foundation in grammatical learning, was sent to St John’s College, Cambridge, and elected a scholar of that society; but having afterwards removed to Trinity, he was chosen fellow of that college. In 1596 he was made regius professor of d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067901-5694 | OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, a learned Englishman, was born in 1581, an’d studied at Queen’s College, Oxford, after which be removed to the Middle Temple, London. He then travelled for some time, and returned a most accomplished person; after which he contracted an intimate acquaintance with Sir Robert Carr, knight of the Bat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-067902-5694 | OVERHAULING, the act of opening and extending the several parts of a tackle, or other assemblage of ropes, communicating with blocks or dead eyes. It is used to remove those blocks to a sufficient distance from each other, that they may again be placed in a state of action, so as to produce the effect required.
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kp-eb0716-067903-5694 | OVERRAKE, a nautical term. When a ship riding at anchor so overbeats herself into a high sea that she is· washed by the waves breaking in upon her, then it is said that the waves overrake her. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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