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A celebrated Centaur, in whose nature the animal element was subject to the human, and who was intrusted with the education of certain heroes of Greece, among others Peleus and Achilles; was endowed with the gift of prophecy, and skilled in athletics as well as music and the healing art. See Centaurs.
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A village in Kent, 10 m. SE. of London, where Napoleon III. died in exile in 1873.
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A suburb of London, 7 m. SW. of St. Paul's; the Church of St. Nicholas has monuments to several people of distinction.
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A white horny substance found in the exoskeleton of several invertebrate animals.
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A State on the frontier of India, NW. of Cashmere; since 1895 occupied by the British; a place of great strategical importance.
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A seaport in the Bay of Bengal, 220 m. E. of Calcutta; exports rice, gum, tobacco, and jute.
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A system of knighthood, for the profession of which the qualifications required were dignity, courtesy, bravery, generosity; the aim of which was the defence of right against wrong, of the weak against the strong, and especially of the honor and the purity of women, and the spirit of which was of Christian derivation; originally a military organization in defence of Christianity against the infidel.
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A colorless narcotic liquid, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol; treated with water it produces chloral hydrate.
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Elementary, greenish-yellow gas obtained from common salt; powerful as a disinfectant, and a bleaching agent.
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