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Brewer's: Hamet
The Cid Hamet Benengeli. The hypothetical Moorish chronicler from whom Cervantës professes to derive his adventures of Don Quixote. “Of the two bad cassocks I am worth ... I would have…Brewer's: Cicuta
In Latin cicuta means the length of a reed up to the knot, such as the internodes made into a Pan-pipe. Hence Virgil ( Ecl. ii. 36) describes a Pan-pipe as “septem compacta cicutis fistula…Usulután
(Encyclopedia) UsulutánUsulután&oomacr;s&oomacr;l&oomacr;tänˈ [key], city (1993 pop. 38,138), S El Salvador. Near the volcano of the same name, the city is the commercial center of an…Brewer's: Cigogne
(French). A stork. Conte de la cigogne. An old wife's tale; silly tittle-tattle. “On conte des choses merveilleuses de la cigogne” (wonderful stories are told of the stork). This, no doubt…Cojutepeque
(Encyclopedia) Cojutepeque Cojutepeque kōh&oomacr;tāpāˈkā [key], city, capital of Cuscatlán dept., central El…Yoshkar-Ola
(Encyclopedia) Yoshkar-Ola or Ioshkar-OlaYoshkar-Olaboth: yəshkärˌəläˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 242,000), capital of Mari El, E central European Russia. Manufactures include pharmaceuticals and…Delibes, Miguel
(Encyclopedia) Delibes, MiguelDelibes, Miguelmēgĕlˈ dālēˈbās [key], 1920–2010, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, b. Valladolid. Prolific and widely translated, he is known for his…Ar Raqqah
(Encyclopedia) Ar Raqqah Ar Raqqah är räkˈkä [key] or El Rashid El Rashid ĕl räshēdˈ [key], city, capital of Ar Raqqah governorate, N Syria, on the Euphrates…Andújar
(Encyclopedia) Andújar Andújar änd&oomacr;ˈhär [key], city, Jaén prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on the Guadalquivir River. Its pottery and its water-cooling jars made of…Trending
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