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Southernmost of the New England States, is washed by Long Island Sound, has New York on the W., Rhode Island on the E., and Massachusetts on the N. It is the third smallest State, rocky and uneven in surface, unfertile except in the Connecticut River valley. Streams abound, and supply motive-power for very extensive manufactures of clocks, hardware, india-rubber goods, smallwares, textiles, and firearms. There are iron-mines in the NW., stone-quarries, lead, copper, and cobalt mines. Climate is healthy, changeable, and in winter severe. Education is excellently provided for. Yale University, at New Haven, is thoroughly equipped; there are several divinity schools, Trinity College at Hartford, and the Wesleyan University at Middleton. The capital is Hartford; New Haven is the largest town and chief port. The original colony was a democratic secession from Massachusetts in 1634. The constitution of 1639 was the first written democratic constitution on record. Its present constitution as a State dates from 1818.
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The name of 13 emperors who reigned at Rome or Byzantium between 306 and 1453.
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The name given in Spain and Portugal to the National Assembly, consisting of nobles and representatives of the nation.
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Surnamed the Younger, second son of Darius II.; conspired against his brother Artaxerxes Mnemon, was sentenced to death, pardoned, and restored to his satrapy in Asia Minor; conspired anew, raised a large army, including Greek mercenaries, marched against his brother, and was slain at Cunaxa, of which last enterprise and its fate an account is given in the "Anabasis" of Xenophon; d. 401 B.C.
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Son of the preceding, and his successor in the Haymarket; author of "The Iron Chest," "John Bull," "The Heir at Law," etc. (1762-1836).
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The Red Comyn, son of the preceding; as one of the three Wardens of Scotland defended it against the English, whom he defeated at Roslin; but in 1304 submitted to Edward I., and falling under suspicion of Bruce, was stabbed by him in a monastery at Dumfries in 1306.
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An American poet and critic; editor of the North American Review, author of the "Dying Raven," the "Buccaneer," and other poems (1787-1879).
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Englisch Gelehrter, Mathematiker und göttlich, in London geboren, ein Absolvent Cambridges und des Fellow des Trinity College; Berufen als Professor für Griechisch nach Cambridge, und bald nach Gresham Professor für Geometrie, anschließend Lucasian Professor für Mathematik (wobei er Newton nachfolgte) und Master of Trinity, und Gründer der Bibliothek, ein Mann von großer intellektueller Fähigkeit und Kraft des Charakters, außerdem mathematische Werke, liess eine "Abhandlung über den Papst Vorherrschaft" und eine Sammlung von Predigten, bemerkenswert für ihre Kraft der Gedanken und Nervosität des Ausdrucks (1630-1677).
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Eine Insel in einem Sumpf in der Nähe des Zusammenflusses von Ton und Parret in Somerset, Alfreds Ort der Zuflucht vor den Dänen.
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