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An able Norwegian mathematician, who died young (1802-1828).
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An able professor of anatomy and therapeutics at Leyden (1696-1770).
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An account by Xenophon of the ill-fated expedition of Cyrus the Younger against his brother Artaxerxes, and of the retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon who accompanied him, after the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B.C.
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An adventurer of English birth, who became prime minister of Naples, but was driven from the helm of affairs on account of his inveterate antipathy to the French (1737-1808).
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An affection of the heart of an intensely excruciating nature, the pain of which at times extends to the left shoulder and down the left arm.
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An affluent of the Po, near Cremona; it flows through Lake Como; on its banks Bonaparte gained several of his famous victories over Austria.
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An affluent of the Tiber, 4 m. above Rome; ancient Rome was supplied with water from it by means of aqueducts.
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An affluent on the right bank of the Congo, in French territory.
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An Alexandrian grammarian of the 1st century, and an enemy of the Jews, and hostile to the privileges conceded them in Alexandria.
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An American painter and poet, whose genius was much admired by Coleridge (1779-1843).
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