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Lanarkshire, Scotland

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... treasures, whose curator, in ?? of yore, she loviugsly had been. en The acghoaring isle St Marguerite is said :r, to he named after a sister of St Honorat, who sy was abbess of a nunnery there, but its chief a, interest centres hi the dungeon where the ...

FORMER THEATRES IN GLASGOW

... Mr. Jackson! sad atm,. re, 'im, reaching as far as the line of the transsverse st,,-tic-inele opened to Stockwcll, and named after him. lhit-, ,cflrn portion he sold to William Craig & Son,arhes 1As the thecatre ha-s all alon'g been a ipri'vicial object ...

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... and the bed was pre. served by the late General Warde. Young Wolfe had one only brother, a year younger than himself, named after his father.* These boys received but a comparatively limited education, first under the village pedagogue, in a small s ...

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... extinct earldom of Wigton came to unite a in herself the two attainted houours I of Marischal and Perth. Young Keith was i named after his grand-uncle, the Earl MarisOhal, e who had taken part in Mar's rebellion, and was e then living in exile at the Court ...

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... forone year, the character of the soil, pa (th analysis of the water, &o. (the \ Branfford, `a town in this district, was !named after a cela- bl ?? chief, Jopeph Brant, who attached himsclf to the z, English ;intefeat in thej American wtor, and so; greatly ...

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... among these unruly tribesmen-so popular, indeed, did he become that he had the satisfaction of knowing that children were named after him O'Donovan 1 Beg, O'Donovan Rban, and O'Donovan Bahadur. i He had, however, a very keen desire to depart :1 l from his ...

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... Unly a single slip have we been rr able to discover, after a somewhat careiul t examination. The Bannatyne Club was ti not named after George .annatyne, publisher h tscott's famous Dublisher was James bnllaun ryne), but alter George Bannatyne, profession ...

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... W5hen one remembers the life-long influence of the passing embrace General Washington bestowed on the Irving boy who was named after him., it I is impossible to totally forget the hero of Two Worlds when one reads Democratic Vistas. Whitman was first ...

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... the first Afghan and Sikh ares; General Richard Charles, Commissioner in Simnla; and Alexander, of the Indian Cavalry, named after his father, a brave veteran who joined 'in leading the forlorn hope at the storming of 'ringapatam. The mother of this family ...

LITERATURE

... of 400 years ago, and the country of which he took* pssession (which in- cludem what, is 'now ?? as North-Carolina) Ihe named after the Vrgion Queen to whom he saprificed his' cloak and his iffe. It was the; area, of the enterprise of the historic London ...

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... IChurch begun by.rthelbert, King of Kent, was 1ll dedicated to the Auostles Peter and Paul; but *st was at a later date named after the Missienary it 'St Augustine, whose remains were interred m- in 613 within its walls. The Abbey had ly many changes of ...

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... Numa, the successor iof Romulus as king of old Rome. The two excep- viot.s are July and August, wfhich were hciorca caose named after the foutrders of the Empire. I| ! the matter of their calendar, as, in fact, in every- I thing else, tile Romans were a ...