The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 101
... English residents in Brazil to a group of Birds known to ornithologists as forming the restricted Family Bucconida , but for a long time confounded , under the general name of Barbets , with the Capitonida of modern systematists , who ...
... English residents in Brazil to a group of Birds known to ornithologists as forming the restricted Family Bucconida , but for a long time confounded , under the general name of Barbets , with the Capitonida of modern systematists , who ...
Page 109
... English , 16 Arabic , the rest bilingual . There are 7 English and 23 vernacular periodicals , monthly and fortnightly , and 28 vernacular newspapers are published in the British province and 3 in native states . The number of children ...
... English , 16 Arabic , the rest bilingual . There are 7 English and 23 vernacular periodicals , monthly and fortnightly , and 28 vernacular newspapers are published in the British province and 3 in native states . The number of children ...
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... English adventurer George Thomas was trying , with the army he had raised , to carve out a little principality for himself in the Sikh states south of the Sutlej . Ranjit was a man of strong will and immense energy , of no education but ...
... English adventurer George Thomas was trying , with the army he had raised , to carve out a little principality for himself in the Sikh states south of the Sutlej . Ranjit was a man of strong will and immense energy , of no education but ...
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... English officers sent by the resident to take over charge of the fort were murdered , 19th April 1848 , and their escort went over to the diwán . Another of the assistants to the resident , Lieutenant Herbert Edwardes , then in the ...
... English officers sent by the resident to take over charge of the fort were murdered , 19th April 1848 , and their escort went over to the diwán . Another of the assistants to the resident , Lieutenant Herbert Edwardes , then in the ...
Page 113
... English artist could occupy . He now devoted himself almost entirely to the composition of sacred music , and for six years entirely severed his connexion with the theatre . But during the early part of the year , and in all prob ...
... English artist could occupy . He now devoted himself almost entirely to the composition of sacred music , and for six years entirely severed his connexion with the theatre . But during the early part of the year , and in all prob ...
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