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The name of two mountains in the East, one in Crete, on which Zeus was brought up in a cave near it, and one in Asia Minor, near Troy, "Woody Ida," the scene of the rape of Ganymedes and of the judgment of Paris, also a seat of Cybele worship.
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The name, derived from the Latin Caesar, given to the emperor of the old German Empire or Reich, and resumed by the modern Emperor, William I., and his successors.
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The national game of Canada, of Indian derivation; is played twelve a side, each armed with a long-handled racquet or crosse, the object of the game being to drive an india-rubber ball through the opponents' goal.
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The nephew and a general of David's; put to death by order of Solomon 1014 B.C.
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The Nile bird, regarded as an avatar of deity, and held sacred by the Egyptians; it did not breed in Egypt, and was supposed to be of mystic origin; it arrives in Egypt when the Nile begins to rise.
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The official title of the Viceroy of Egypt since 1867, the first to hold it being Ismail, the son of Ibrahim Pasha, by grant of the Sultan, his suzerain.
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The one of the three Fates that spun the thread of life and apportioned the destinies of man. See Parcae.
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The only one of the Danaides who spared the life of her husband in spite of her father's orders.
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The point of the compass to which people turn their faces when they worship, as the Mohammedans do to Mecca when they pray.
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