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kp-eb0721-087404-0914 | WHITE Sea is a bay of the Frozen Ocean, so called in the north part of Muscovy, lying between Russian Lapland and Samoieda; at the bottom of which stands the city of Archangel. This was the chief port possessed by the Russians before their conquest of Livonia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087405-0914 | WHITE Island in the South Pacific Ocean, near the east coast of New Zealand, north of Cape Runaway. Long. 186. 36. W. Lat. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 N 186 36' W | WHITE |
kp-eb0721-087406-0914 | WHITEFIELD, George, was born at the Bell Inn, in the city of Gloucester, on the 16th of December 1714. He received his education at the grammar-school of that city, where he made some progress in classical learning; and his talents for elocution enabled him to appear to advantage in the speeches which he delivered befo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087601-0916 | WHITEHAVEN, a large seaport and market town in the parish of St Bees and ward of Allerdale, on the west coast of the county of Cumberland. It is situated at the upper end of a small creek of the Irish Sea, and comprises a number of handsome straight wide streets, which intersect each other at right angles, and are well... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087602-0916 | WHITHAM, a market-town and parish of the county of Essex, which gives its name to the hundred in which it is situated. It stands on a branch of the river Blackwater, thirty-eight miles from London and seven from Chelmsford. It is a well-built town, and pleasantly situated; and being on the great road to Harwich and Ips... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087603-0916 | WHITHORN, a royal borough of Wigtonshire, situated eleven miles south of Wigton, and two and a half miles west of Wigton Bay. It consists chiefly of one street lying north and south, and nearly half a mile in length. The houses are not inelegant, though somewhat irregularly built. The only public buildings are the town... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087604-0916 | WHITSTABLE, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of the same name, and in the lathe of St Augustine, sixty miles from London. It is the chief port from whence the trade of Canterbury is conducted, being seven [7:21:877]miles from that city. The chief articles conveyed by it to London are corn and hops, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087701-0917 | WHITSUN Farthings, otherwise called Smoke-farthings, or Quadrantes Pentecostales, a composition for offerings which were anciently made in Whitsun-week, by every man in England who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese in which he lived. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087702-0917 | WHITSUN Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Wallis in 1767, about four miles long and three wide. Long. 137. 56. W. Lat. 19. 26. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 26' S 137 56' W | WHITSUN |
kp-eb0721-087703-0917 | WHITSUNDAY, a solemn festival of the Christian church, observed on the fiftieth day after Easter, in memory of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles in the visible appearance of fiery cloven tongues, and of those miraculous powers which were then conferred upon them. It is called Whitsunday, or White Sunday, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087704-0917 | WHITSUNTIDE Bay, the passage which separates the islands of Kodiak and St Hermogenes, which lie about sixty miles from the entrance of Cook’s Inlet, in the North Pacific Ocean. It was so called by Cook, who was not aware that the land was here divided into two islands, and what he supposed to be a bay was the strait by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087705-0917 | WHITTLESEY, a town of the county of Cambridge, in the isle of Ely. It stands on the great Bedford Level, seventy-six miles from London and twenty-six from Cambridge. It contains two parishes, St Andrew’s and St Mary’s, each with a church. It stands on a rich but insalubrious district; and near to it is the Mere, or lak... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087706-0917 | WHYE, a town of Hindustan, province of Bejapoor, situated near the source of the river Krishna, and one of the places of Hindu pilgrimage. It now belongs to the British. Long. 74. 5. E. Lat. 18. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 0' N 74 5' E | WHYE |
kp-eb0721-087707-0917 | WHYMEA Bay, on the north coast of the island of Woahoo. It was here that Mr Hergest, commander, Mr Gooch, astronomer, and a seaman of the Daedalus, going out with stores for Captain Vancouver, was seized by some of the inhabitants and killed in 1792. Long. 202. 51. E. Lat. 21. 38. N.
Whymea Road, on the south west-coa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 38' N 202 51' E | WHYMEA |
kp-eb0721-087708-0917 | WHYTATAKEE, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Bligh of the Bounty. Long. 159. 41. W. Lat. 18. 52. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 52' S 159 41' W | WHYTATAKEE |
kp-eb0721-087709-0917 | WHYTT, Robert, an eminent physician, born at Edinburgh on the 6th September 1714, was the son of Robert Whytt, Esq. of Bennochy, advocate. This gentleman died six months before the birth of this son, who had also the misfortune to be deprived of his mother before he had attained the seventh year of his age. After recei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087801-0918 | WIASMA, a circle of the Russian government of Smolensko, extending in north latitude from 54° 55' to 55° 30', and in east longitude from 33° 15' to 34° 25'. It is a poor district, in which are the sources of the river Dnieper. The capital is the city of the same name, on the river Wiasma. Like most old Russian cities, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 6' N 33 5' E | WIASMA |
kp-eb0721-087802-0918 | WIBURG, a circle of the Russian province of Finland, extending in north latitude from 60° 10' to 61° 1', and in east longitude from 28° 1' to 30° 17', and containing 3740 square miles, with 31,840 inhabitants. It is bounded on the north-west by Wilmanstrand, on the north by Kekholm, on the north-east by Ladoga, on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 60 42' N 28 40' E | WIBURG |
kp-eb0721-087803-0918 | WICK, a royal borough, situate on the bay of the same name, in the county of Caithness. It is distant from Inverness by Beauly and Tain 137½ miles. Wick is a town of considerable antiquity, and was erected into a royal borough in 1589. It stands in a low situation, and its streets are irregularly built and crowded toge... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087804-0918 | WICKET, a small door in the gate of a fortified place, &c. or a hole in a door through which to view what passes without. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087805-0918 | WICKLIFFE, John. See Wycliffe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087806-0918 | WICKLOW, a maritime county in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by Dublin county, on the east by St George’s Channel, on the south by Wexford, and on the west by Carlow, a detached portion of Dublin, and Kildare. It lies between 52° 40', and 53° 14' north latitude, and 5° 57' and 6° 46' west... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088101-0921 | WICKWAR, a small market town of the county of Gloucester, seventeen miles from Bristol and 111 from London. It is in the hundred of Grumbald’s Ash, and was formerly a place of more importance than it is at present. There is a spacious church with a lofty tower, and a grammar-school endowed by a native of the name of Ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088102-0921 | WIDDIN, a city of Turkey in Europe, the capital of the province of the same name. It stands on the river Danube, and is one of the strongest fortifications of the empire. In the river opposite to it is an island, also covered with strong military works. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, has numerous mosques, and, it is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088103-0921 | WIELICZKA, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, in the circle of Bochnia. It is distant from the independent city of Kracow about seven miles. It contains 360 houses, with 3700 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed or connected with the celebrated rock-salt mines which exist at this place, and which have been ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088104-0921 | WIESBADEN, one of the provinces into which the duchy of Nassau in Germany is divided. It is on the Rhine, and is bounded by other provinces of the duchy on every part except the south-east, where it touches Hesse-Darmstadt. It comprehends one city, two market-towns, twelve villages, 2272 houses, and 18,922 inhabitants.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088105-0921 | WIGAN, a large town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of West Derby, 200 miles from London. It stands on the small river Douglas; is a corporation under a mayor, ten aldermen, and thirty councillors; and returns two members to the House of Commons. Being an ancient town, some parts of it are ill built; but of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088106-0921 | WIGHT, Isle of. This island, on the southern coast of England, in the British channel, is for most purposes a portion of the county of Southampton, or Hampshire. It is separated from it by a channel varying in breadth from two to six miles. In this channel, though it contains no harbour of importance, there are many pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088201-0922 | WIGTON, a county situated at the south-west corner of Scotland, is bounded on the west by the Irish Channel, on the north by Ayrshire, on the east by Wigton Bay and the river Cree, and on the south by the Irish Sea. It is consequently bounded by water on all sides except the north. No part of the county is above thirte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088501-0925 | WILBERFORCE Cape, a rocky promontory on the north coast of New Holland, at the west entrance into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Long. 136. 33. E. Lat. 11. 52. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 52' S 136 33' E | WILBERFORCE |
kp-eb0721-088502-0925 | WILBERFORCE, William, was born at Hull on the 24th of August 1759. His father, a merchant of that town, traced his descent from an ancient family which had long possessed a large estate at Wilberfoss, in the east riding of the county of York. The father of Wilberforce died before his son had completed his tenth year, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088601-0926 | WILEIKA, a circle of the Russian government of Minsk, extending in north latitude from 54° 24' to 54° 58', and in east longitude from 26° 7' to 28° 22'. In the west part it is filled with sandy heaths, and in the east with morasses. Between these are extensive woods, with portions among them of land highly productive o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 35' 30" N 26 40' E | WILEIKA |
kp-eb0721-088602-0926 | WILKIE, William the author of the Epigoniad, was born in the parish of Dalmeny and county of Linlithgow on the 5th of October 1721. His father was a small farmer, and was not very fortunate in his worldly affairs. He however gave his son a liberal education, the early part of which he received at Dalmeny school; and at... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088603-0926 | WILKINS, J ohn, an eminent philosopher and divine, the son of Walter Wilkins, a goldsmith of Oxford, was born in 1614, at Fawsley, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, in the house of his maternal grandfather, John Dod, a non-conformist. After being trained in a private school at Oxford, he was entered of New Inn Hall in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088701-0927 | WILL, that faculty of the mind by which it embraces or rejects any thing offered to it. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088702-0927 | WILLANMEZ’S Isle, a small island off the north coast of New Britain, high in the centre, and low and wooded at the sides. Long. 149. 39. E. Lat. 5. 15. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 15' S 149 39' E | WILLANMEZ’S |
kp-eb0721-088703-0927 | WILLIAM of Malmesbury, an historian of considerable merit in the reign of King Stephen, but of whose life few particulars are known. According to Bale and Pitts, he was surnamed Somersetus, from the county in which he was born. From his own preface to his second book “De Regibus Anglorum,” it appears that he was addict... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088704-0927 | WILLIS, T homas, a celebrated English physician, was born at Great Bedwin, in Wiltshire, on the 27th of January 1621, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. When that city was garrisoned for the king, he, among other scholars, bore arms for his majesty; and he devoted his leisure hours to the study of physic. The garris... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088801-0928 | WILLOUGHBY Cape, the eastern point of Kangarou island, on the south coast of New Holland. Long. 138. 13. E. Lat. 35. 48. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088802-0928 | WILLUGHBY, Francis, a celebrated natural historian, was the only son of Sir Francis Willughby, and was born in 1635. He was fond of study from his childhood, and held idleness in abhorrence; being so great an economist with regard to his time, as not willingly to lose or misapply the least part of it; by which means he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088803-0928 | WILMOT, John, earl of Rochester, a great wit in the reign of Charles IL, the son of Henry earl of Rochester, was born on the 10th of April 1647, at Ditchley in Oxfordshire. He was instructed in classical learning at the free-school at Burford, where he obtained a quick relish of the beauties of the Latin tongue, and af... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-088804-0928 | WILNA, a government of the division called West Russia, of the Russian empire in Europe. It was formerly a portion of Lithuania, till the first division of Poland. In its present state, it extends in north latitude from 53° 32' to 56° 24', and in east longitude from 20° 54' to 26° 33'. It is bounded on the north by Cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 41' 2" N 25 11' 22" E | WILNA |
kp-eb0721-088901-0929 | WILSON, Alexander, the American ornithologist, was born at Paisley, in Scotland, on the 6th of July 1766. His father was a hand-loom weaver, and he himself followed the same trade. His education was more liberal than that of many in similar circumstances. Some poems which he published, especially those written in the S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 11½' S 146 24' E | WILSON |
kp-eb0721-089001-0930 | WILTON, a market and borough town of the county of Wilts, three miles from Salisbury and eighty-three from London. It stands on the river Willy, in the hundred of Branch and Dole, and returns one member to the House of Commons. It has a market on Wednesday. This place has given its name to a description of carpets firs... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089002-0930 | WILTSHIRE, an inland county of England, in the western judicial circuit. It is bounded on the north-west and west by Gloucestershire, on the west by Somersetshire, on the south by Dorset and Hanks, and on the east and north-east by the latter county and Berkshire. The length is about fifty miles, and the breadth about ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089201-0932 | WIMBLEDON, an extensive parish of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Brixton, seven miles from London. The village consists of one main street on the great road to Portsmouth, but is most remarkable for the number and elegance of the residences around its common, and in other parts of the parish. The most striking... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089202-0932 | WIMBORN-MINSTER, a market-town of the county of Dorset, in the hundred of Badbury and division of Shaftesbury, 100 miles from London and seven from Poole. It is finely situated between the rivers Stour and Allen, over each of which are bridges. Its name is derived from the minster, a Gothic-Norman structure, which now ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089203-0932 | WINCANTON, a market-town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Ferres-Norton, 108 miles from London. It has a market on Wednesday. What little trade there is, consists in making tickings, dowlas, and other coarse linen goods. The population amounted in 1821 to 2143, and in 1831 to 2123. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089204-0932 | WINCHCOMBE, a market-town of the county of Gloucester, in the hundred of Kiftsgate, ninety-six miles from London and six from Cheltenham. It is situated in the Cotswold Hills. It is a place of great antiquity, and was once deemed a county of itself, having exempt jurisdiction. The church is deserving of notice, being a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089205-0932 | WINCHELSEA, a town and parish of the county of Sussex, in the hundred of Guestling and rape of Hastings, sixty-seven miles from London. It stands on a rising ground, overlooking marshes which extend to the sea. The ancient town of this name was once a large city, and contained a harbour and eighteen parish churches, ne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089206-0932 | WINCHESTER, a city in Hampshire, of which it is the capital, sixty-two miles from London, and eleven from Southampton. It is built on the side of a hill, and on the level below it, which extends to the banks of the river Itchin. It is a remarkably clean place; and though many of the houses are in an antique style, it i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089301-0933 | WIND is a sensible agitation of the atmosphere, occasioned by a quantity of air flowing from one place to another. See Meteorology. Wind-Gage. See Physical Geography, vol. xvii. p. 338-9. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089302-0933 | WINDLASS, a machine used for raising huge weights, as guns, stones, anchors, &c. It is very simple, consisting only of an axis or roller, supported horizontally at the two ends by two pieces of wood and a pulley: the two pieces of wood meet at top, being placed diagonally so as to prop each other; the axis or roller go... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089303-0933 | WINDOW, an aperture or open place in the wall of a house to let in the light. Before the use of glass became general, which was not till towards the end of the 12th century, the windows in Britain seem generally to have been composed of paper. Properly prepared with oil, this forms no contemptible defence against the i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089304-0933 | WINDSOR, a borough and market town of Berkshire, twenty-two miles from London, on the banks of the Thames. Old and New Windsor, the castle, and the hamlets of Clewer and Dedworth, are included in the parish. Windsor stands on the side and top of a hill sloping to the river. It is divided into two wards, and is governed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089305-0933 | WINDWARD, in the sea-language, denotes any thing towards that point from whence the wind blows, in respect of a ship: thus windward tide is the tide which runs against the wind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-089306-0933 | WINKOOP’S Island, a large island on the south coast of Java. Long. 106. 36. E. Lat. 7. 28. S. There is a bay of the same name on the south coast of Java. Long 106. 38. E. Lat. 7. 5. S.
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kp-eb0721-089401-0934 | WINE-MAKING.
The history of wines is both curious and amusing; and their topography is not less so, if we may apply this term to the several kinds, to their enumeration, and to that of the countries where they grow, and to the variations followed in their manufacture. This is a subject which would occupy a volume; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090301-0943 | WINGHAM, a small town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of the same name, and in the lathe of St Augustine, sixty-two miles from London. A convent was founded here in the reign of Edward I. by Archbishop Peckham. Near to it are some fine gentlemen’s seats. The population amounted in 1821 to 1085, and in 1831 to 111... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090302-0943 | WINKELMANN, John, was born at Stendall, in the old Marche of Brandenburg, in 1718. He was the son of a shoemaker. This wonderful man, to all appearance destined by his birth to superintend a little school in an obscure town of Germany, raised himself to the office of president of antiquities in the Vatican. His course ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090303-0943 | WINSLOW, a market-town of the county of Buckingham and hundred of Cotslow, fifty miles from London. It is neat and well built, has a market on Tuesday, and its population amounted in 1821 to 1221, and in 1831 to 1290. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090304-0943 | WINTER, one of the four seasons or quarters of the year. Winter commences on the day when the sun’s distance from the zenith of the place is greatest, and ends on the day when its distance is at a mean between the greatest and least. Under the equator, the winter, as well as other seasons, returns twice every year, but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090305-0943 | WINTON, Andrew, prior of Lochleven, appears to have been born during the reign of David the Second, which extended from 1329 to 1370. For the few scattered notices of him that have been preserved, we are chiefly indebted to the valuable work which has transmitted his name to posterity. Of his parentage and education no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090401-0944 | WIRE, a piece of metal drawn through the hole of an iron into a thread of a fineness answering to the hole it passed through. Wires are frequently drawn so fine as to be wrought along with other threads of silk, wool, flax, &c. The metals most commonly drawn into wire are gold, silver, copper, and iron. Gold wire is ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090402-0944 | WIRSWORTH, a market-town of the county of Derby, in the hundred of its own name, 139 miles from London and twelve from the town of Derby. It is situated in a mining district, where it is the chief object to procure lead ore, and the silver frequently combined with it. The principal occupation is connected with the vari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090403-0944 | WISBEACH, a town of the county of Cambridge, in the Isle of Ely, eighty-nine miles from London. It is a port, standing on a branch of the Ouse communicating with Lynn. The country around is rich, producing much corn, a great part of which is sold at the market, and afterwards shipped to other parts of the kingdom. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090404-0944 | WISBY, a city of Sweden, the capital of the province and island of that name, or, as it is sometimes called, Gottland. It is situated on the western side of the island, was formerly a Hanse town, and a place of great trade. It is fortified, is rather irregularly built, but of stone, and in the style of the ancient Germ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 38' 30" N 18 2' 29" E | WISBY |
kp-eb0721-090501-0945 | WISCONSIN. The vast tract under this name, erected into a territory of the North American Union, stretches from Lakes Michigan and Superior to the Missouri and White Earth Rivers, and from the northern frontier of the Missouri and Illinois to the boundary between the American and British possessions; extending from 40°... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090502-0945 | WISDOM usually denotes a higher and more refined notion of things or qualities immediately presented to the mind, as it were, by intuition, without the assistance of ratiocination. Sometimes the word is used, in a moral sense, for what we call prudence or discretion, which consists in the soundness of the judgment, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090503-0945 | WISMAR, one of the provinces into which the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is divided. It belonged to Mecklenburg till 1648, when it was delivered over to the Swedes, who possessed it till 1803, when it was transferred for a sum of money to the present sovereign. It is situated on the Baltic Sea, and, including th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090504-0945 | WIT is a quality of certain thoughts and expressions, more easily perceived than defined. According to Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090701-0947 | WITCHCRAFT, a supernatural power of which persons were formerly supposed to obtain the possession by entering into a compact with the devil. They gave themselves up to him body and soul; and he engaged that they should want for nothing, and that he would avenge them upon all their enemies. As soon as the bargain was co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090801-0948 | WITEBSK, a government or stadtholderate of the Russian dominions in Europe, formerly a portion of what was denominated White Russia, but now bearing the name of the largest city within it. It extends in north latitude from 54° 42' to 57° 21', and in east longitude from 15° 35' to 21° 39'. It is bounded on the north-wes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 11' N 29 55' E | WITEBSK |
kp-eb0721-090802-0948 | WITENA MOT, or Witena Gemot, among the Anglo-Saxons, was a term which literally signified the assembly of the wise men; and was applied to the great council of the nation, afterwards called the parliament. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090803-0948 | WITHERS of a House, the juncture of the shoulder-bones at the bottom of the neck and mane, towards the upper part of the shoulder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090804-0948 | WITNESS, in Law, a person who gives evidence in any cause, and is sworn to speak the truth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090805-0948 | WITNEY, a market-town and parish of the county of Oxford, in the hundred of Bampton, sixty-nine miles from London and eleven from Oxford. It stands on the river Windrush. It consists of two streets, at the end of one of which is a fine church in the Gothic style. There is also an endowed grammar-school, with a good lib... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090806-0948 | WITSIUS, Herman, a learned divine, was born on the 12th of February 1636, at Enckhuysen in North Holland. His father, a member of the municipal council of that place, was the author of some pious meditations, written in his native tongue. In 1650 he became a student in the university of Utrecht, where he distinguished ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090901-0949 | WITT, JoHN DE, a celebrated Dutch statesman, was the son of Jacob de Witt, burgomaster of Dort, and was born in 1625. He became well skilled in the civil law, politics, mathematics, and other sciences, and wrote a treatise on the Elements of Curved Lines, published by Francis Schooten. Having taken his degree of doctor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090902-0949 | WITTENBERG, a circle of the Prussian province of Saxony, and of the government of Merseburg, extending over 330 square miles, and comprehending five cities and towns, 104 villages, and 28,700 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name on the river Elbe, over which is a wooden bridge of about 1000 feet in len... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 52' 45" N 12 39' 39" E | WITTENBERG |
kp-eb0721-090903-0949 | WIVELSCOMBE, a market-town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of West Kingsbury, ten miles from Taunton and 156 from London. It stands on the river Tone. It formerly had considerable manufactories of coarse woollen goods, which have nearly disappeared by the rivalry of the northern counties. The town has a corpo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090904-0949 | WIVENHOE, a small town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Lexden, fifty-four miles from London. It stands on the navigable river Colne, and is the place where the Colchester oysters are shipped for the London market. It has a regular custom-house and convenient quay. The population amounted in 1821 to 1287, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-090905-0949 | WLADIMIR, a province or stadtholderate in the central part of the Russian dominions in Europe. It extends in north latitude from 54° 58' to 57° 11', and in east longitude from 37° 32’ to 43° 11'. It is bounded on the north-west by Twer, on the north by Jaroslaw, on the north-east by Kostroma, on the east by Nishegorod,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 56 17' N 40 22' E | WLADIMIR |
kp-eb0721-091001-0950 | WLODZIMIRZ, a circle of the Russian government of Volhynia. It extends in north latitude from 50° 22' to 50° 57', and in east longitude from 24° 8' to 24° 58'. The river Bug drains it, and forms the boundary towards Poland. The soil is good, and yields abundant crops of wheat, rye, barley, pease, flax, hops, and tobacc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 44' 30" N 24 15' E | WLODZIMIRZ |
kp-eb0721-091002-0950 | WOAHOO, one of the Sandwich Islands, containing, as near as can be conjectured, 60,000 inhabitants. Long, of the anchoring place, 202. 9. E. Lat. 21. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091003-0950 | WOBURN, a market-town of the county of Bedford, in the hundred of Manshead, forty-two miles from London. It has a market on Friday. It is tolerably well built, but the most prominent object is the magnificent seat of the duke of Bedford, erected on the site of the ancient abbey. Its façade, the interior richly ornament... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091004-0950 | WODEVILLE, Αντηονυ, earl of Rivers, brother to the queen of Edward IV., was born in the end of 1442, or in the beginning of 1443. Though one of the most accomplished men of his age, very little is known of his private history. He was early and constantly employed either in the tumults of those turbulent times, or in di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091005-0950 | WODROW, Robert, a well-known ecclesiastical historian, was born at Glasgow in the year 1679. His father, James Wodrow, a man of piety and learning, had been licensed to preach in 1673; but during the times of persecution he obtained no settled charge, and was obliged to live a considerable time under concealment, occas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091201-0952 | WODSTOCK, amarket and borough town of the county of Oxford, in the hundred of Wootton, sixty-three miles from London. It stands on a small stream that falls into the Isis. It is pleasantly situated, and contains some good houses. There are two branches of manufacture, that of fine leather gloves, and of good steel cutl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091202-0952 | WOKINGHAM, a market-town of Berkshire, in the hundred of Sunning, thirty-two miles from London. It is within Windsor Forest, and the courts by which it is regulated are held here. It has a large market-place, which is well attended on Tuesday, an endowed school; and near it is an hospital, founded in 1663, for a master... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091203-0952 | WOLEIN, a town of the Austrian province of Moravia, in the circle of Iglau. It contains 160 houses, with 1206 inhabitants, who are chiefly occupied in making woollen cloth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091204-0952 | WOLF, Christian, a celebrated German philosopher, was born at Breslau, on the 24th of January 1679. After having been well instructed in the rudiments of learning and science in his own country, Wolf prosecuted his studies successively in the universities of Jena and Leipzig. At the age of twenty-six he had acquired so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091301-0953 | WOLFE, James, was born at Westerham, in the county of Kent, about the beginning of the year 1726. His father was Lieutenant-general Edward Wolfe. He went into the army when very young, and applying himself with unwearied assiduity to the study of his profession, soon became remarkable for his knowledge and his genius. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091302-0953 | WOLFENBUTTEL, a city of the duchy of Brunswick, in Germany. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It stands on the river Oker, and is surrounded with dilapidated walls. It was formerly the residence of the ruling family, but the palace is converted into a manufactory. There is a fine public library, with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 8' 44" N 10 25' 49" E | WOLFENBUTTEL |
kp-eb0721-091303-0953 | WOLLAMAI Cape, the east point of Philip Island, on the south coast of New Holland. Long. 145. 25. E. Lat. 38. 38. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 38' S 145 25' E | WOLLAMAI |
kp-eb0721-091304-0953 | WOLLASTON, William descended of an ancient family in Staffordshire, was born at Coton Clanford on the 26th of March 1659. His father was a private gentleman of small fortune. In 1674, the son was admitted a pensioner of Sidney College, Cambridge, where, notwithstanding several disadvantages, he acquired a great degree ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091305-0953 | WOLLASTON, WILLIAM Hyde, was great-grandson of the preceding, and son of the Rev. Francis Wollaston, rector of Chiselhurst, and of St Vedast, Foster-lane, and precentor of St David’s, who died in 1815. His father had seventeen children. William, his second son, was born on [7:21:914]the 6th of August 1766, and received... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-091401-0954 | WOLOGDA, one of those large divisions into which the European part of the Russian empire is formed, and commonly denominated a government or stadtholdership. The extent is given differently by several authors; but as Storch seems the preferable authority, it is here given according to his representation, at 151,074 squ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 59 13' 30" N 40 6' E | WOLOGDA |
kp-eb0721-091501-0955 | WOLOKOLAMSK, a circle of the Russian province of Moscow, bounded on the south-west by Smolensko, on the west and north by Twer, and on the other parts by Swenigorod, Rasa, and Moshaik. It extends over 924 square miles, comprehending one city, eighty-one parishes, and 152 hamlets, with 78,600 inhabitants, mostly occupie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 56 10' N 37 50' E | WOLOKOLAMSK |
kp-eb0721-091502-0955 | WOLSEY, THomas, is said to have been the son of a butcher at Ipswich. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he formed an acquaintance with the learned Erasmus; and in the year 1500 he became rector of Lymington in Somersetshire. He was afterwards made chaplain to King Henry VIII., and obtained several prefermen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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