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ARUNDEL, THOMAS ASSAB ARUNDEL (town) ASSAM ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR ASSAMESE ARUSIANUS MESSIUS ASSAROTTI, OTTAVIO GIOVANNI BATTISTA ARVAL BROTHERS ASSARY ARVALS ASSASSIN ARVERNI ASSAULT ARYAN ASSAYE ARYA SAMAJ ASSAYING ARYTENOID ASSEGAI ARZAMAS ASSELIJN, HANS AS ASSEMANI ASA ASSEMB...
ARUNDEL, THOMAS ASSAB ARUNDEL (town) ASSAM ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR ASSAMESE ARUSIANUS MESSIUS ASSAROTTI, OTTAVIO GIOVANNI BATTISTA ARVAL BROTHERS ASSARY ARVALS ASSASSIN ARVERNI ASSA...
2. Book i. of Euclid is known as the _Pons Asinorum_, bridge of asses.ASS, FEAST OF THE, formerly a festival in northern France, primarily in commemoration of the biblical flight into Egypt, and usually held on the 14th of January. A girl with a b...
3. Act VI. of 1901. Under this act the maximum term of the labourcontract is fixed at four years, and a minimum monthly wage is laid down, the payment of which, however, is contingent on the completion of a daily task by the labourer. Laboure...
4. livid. The veins of the forehead stand out, the eyes bulge, andperspiration bedews the face. The head is fixed in position, and likewise the powerful muscles of the back to aid the attempt at respiration. The breath is whistling and wheezin...
5. i. 6) made satrap of Hyrcania, where he was afterwards slain by Oebaresagainst the will of Cyrus, who gave him a splendid funeral. Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus in their excerpts from Berossus, which Eusebius (_Chron_. i. pp. 29 and 37) and Syn...
6. ix. 39, the name is converted into Astibaras, who, according to theunhistorical list of Ctesias, was the father of Astyages), and there is no reason to invent an earlier king Astyages I., as some modern authors have done. The Armenian historian...
7. ii. 549), in which the cult of the goddess was associated with that ofErechtheus; the Homeric temple is identified by Furtwangler with the "compact house of Erechtheus" (_Od_. vii. 81), which, he holds, was not a royal palace, but a place of worsh...