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A tree which has been " polled , " or cut back close in order to In 1496 he went to
Florence in order to put the finishing touches induce it to make short bushy
growth , is called a " pollard . ” to the work already begun in the sacristy of Santo ...
A tree which has been " polled , " or cut back close in order to In 1496 he went to
Florence in order to put the finishing touches induce it to make short bushy
growth , is called a " pollard . ” to the work already begun in the sacristy of Santo ...
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The family is now called Stirling - Maxwell , the estate the people whom he met ,
but they are very untrustworthy . He also wrote Nouveaux mémoires ( Amsterdam
, 1737 ) ; État abrégé de and baronetcy having devolved in 1865 upon Sir ...
The family is now called Stirling - Maxwell , the estate the people whom he met ,
but they are very untrustworthy . He also wrote Nouveaux mémoires ( Amsterdam
, 1737 ) ; État abrégé de and baronetcy having devolved in 1865 upon Sir ...
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Crossing the Pamir the travellers descended Hulagu , lost in 1286 his favourite
wise , called by Polo Balgana upon Kashgar , Yarkand and Khotan ( Khutan ) .
These are ( i . c . Bulughan or “ Sable " ) . Her dying injunction was that her
regions ...
Crossing the Pamir the travellers descended Hulagu , lost in 1286 his favourite
wise , called by Polo Balgana upon Kashgar , Yarkand and Khotan ( Khutan ) .
These are ( i . c . Bulughan or “ Sable " ) . Her dying injunction was that her
regions ...
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He never mentions a so - called " ghost " of the dead may be merely the làradh of
a his authorities , but amongst authors still extant he used Herodotus , living
person . ( A . L . ) Thucydides , Xenophon , Polybius , Diodorus , Plutarch ,
Frontinus ...
He never mentions a so - called " ghost " of the dead may be merely the làradh of
a his authorities , but amongst authors still extant he used Herodotus , living
person . ( A . L . ) Thucydides , Xenophon , Polybius , Diodorus , Plutarch ,
Frontinus ...
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... in opposition to whose bill which stood at no great distance from the forum at
the point relating to the distribution of the public lands Cicero made his where the
so - called Strada di Mercurio was crossed by the wide speech , De lege agraria )
...
... in opposition to whose bill which stood at no great distance from the forum at
the point relating to the distribution of the public lands Cicero made his where the
so - called Strada di Mercurio was crossed by the wide speech , De lege agraria )
...
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| Title | The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Volume 22 The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Hugh Chisholm |
| Editor | Hugh Chisholm |
| Edition | 11 |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2008 |
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