Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Volume 14; Volume 29D. Appleton & Company, 1890 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... French territory , expecting public opinion in France to commend a breach of the neutrality laws in favor of a Russian enterprise aimed against the ally of Germany . The expedition passed through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in an ...
... French territory , expecting public opinion in France to commend a breach of the neutrality laws in favor of a Russian enterprise aimed against the ally of Germany . The expedition passed through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in an ...
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... French Archæological School , in the autumn of 1888 , in the Temple of the Muses at Helicon , which appears to have been an amphi- prostyle of four fonic columns , like the Temple of Victory on the Acropolis . It had been re- built in ...
... French Archæological School , in the autumn of 1888 , in the Temple of the Muses at Helicon , which appears to have been an amphi- prostyle of four fonic columns , like the Temple of Victory on the Acropolis . It had been re- built in ...
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... French . The eighteenth annual meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science began on Aug. 8 , 1889 , in Paris , France . The first meeting was held in the large hall of the Palais de Sociétés Savantes . President's ...
... French . The eighteenth annual meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science began on Aug. 8 , 1889 , in Paris , France . The first meeting was held in the large hall of the Palais de Sociétés Savantes . President's ...
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... French forms . The pillar that supports the polar axis is not upright , but L - shaped , the lower part being inclined near- ly in the plane of the equator , the upper almost at right angles to this , extending toward the north pole and ...
... French forms . The pillar that supports the polar axis is not upright , but L - shaped , the lower part being inclined near- ly in the plane of the equator , the upper almost at right angles to this , extending toward the north pole and ...
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... French magazine rifle . The model of the Mannlicher rifle , which was adopted by the Austrian Government in 1888 , has also been decided on by the German authorities as the weapon for the German infantry . It is not properly a magazine ...
... French magazine rifle . The model of the Mannlicher rifle , which was adopted by the Austrian Government in 1888 , has also been decided on by the German authorities as the weapon for the German infantry . It is not properly a magazine ...
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