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'''B. of L.'''<br />
728; Board of Longditude (specified 730)
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...or his 7-year voyage in search of the "Land of the Saints," i.e., the Isle of St. Brendan, supposedly in the mid-Atlantic, which Isle legend has him find
of the Scriptures" 134; Isle, 703; 712; Well of Saint Brendan, 724; [http://www.catholicism.org/pages/brendan.htm Great Web
22 KB (3,213 words) - 10:11, 5 December 2012
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...uth again, back to Hadrian's Wall. Interestingly, there is little evidence of major conflict on Hadrian's Wall. <ref>[http://www.hadrians-wall.org/ Hadri
'''Haimo of Halberstadt'''<br />
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<div id="rabbi"></div>'''Rabbi of Prague (1513-1609)'''<br />
...e Sabbath. He once forgot to do this and caught up with the golem in front of a synagogue and had to destroy it; Inn; 684
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...UN: 1a. A dark brown ink or pigment originally prepared from the secretion of the cuttlefish. b. A drawing or picture done in this pigment. c. A photogra
ADJECTIVE: 1. Of the color sepia. 2. Done or made in sepia.<br>
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Such a fun "vice" was not allowed on ship, because of superstitious associations..
Armed thieves in a band of thieves. Still in use in contemporary Dutch.
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...urope is in fact Cape Nordkinn (Kinnarodden), about 20 km from the village of Mehamn. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape,_Norway WIKI]
...A castle stood on the island during the 15th century; this was constructed of stone and oak wood and was probably used as a fortified refuge. It has bee
30 KB (4,695 words) - 17:36, 15 July 2013
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Pynchon loves to embed song lyrics into the text of his stories, but why? For him the writing process does not involve only the
...untable research effort, the aim of which would be to discover which other of Pynchon's lyrics fit to existing songs (such research is par for the course
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