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La Place Pierre-Simon Laplace (17491827), a French mathematician and astronomer, best known for his study of the solar system.
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Sturm Charles-François Sturm (18031855), a French mathematician who made important contribution to the theory of equations.
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Newton Isaac Newton (16431727), a great English physicist and mathematician, the major figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
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Giotto (12661337) the greatest Italian painter of the 14th century.
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Deus ex machina = God from the machine (Latin); unexpected help.
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Alsatian born in Alsace, a region of France on the German border.
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Gallic here: French.
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Teuton here: German.
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Tahoe Lake Tahoe in northern Sierra Nevada, on California-Nevada border in the USA.
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aqua fortis = strong water. (Latin)
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orrery a model of the solar system.
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Aristotle (384 BC322 BC) an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest philosophers of all time.
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Archimedes (290 BC212 BC) a famous ancient Greek mathematician and inventor.
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Comte Auguste Comte (17981857), a French philosopher, the founder of sociology as a science and the philosophy of positivism.
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Martin Farquhar Tupper (18101889) an English writer and poet.
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Schlafen Sie wohl. = Have a good sleep. (German)
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Sylvester II (9451003) the head of the Roman Catholic church of France who later became Pope.
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Roger Bacon (12201292) a great English philosopher and scientist of the 13th century.
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Thomas Aquinas (12241274) an Italian theologian and philosopher, canonized in July, 1323.
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Huyghens Christian Huyghens (16291695), a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
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Kerguellens Land Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, discovered by de Kerguéllen-Trémarec and later explored by Captain James Cook.
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Liebchen = sweetheart. (German)
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Vorwärts! = Forward! (German)
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Nicht wahr? = Isnt it? (German)
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Um Gottes Willen = for Gods sake. (German)
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Madison Square a square in central New York.
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aquamarine (colour) blue or green-blue.
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Carrara a city in Tuscany region in north-central Italy, famous for the worlds best marble of the same name.
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Maupassant Guy de Maupassant (18501893), a French writer and novelist who is considered the best French short-story writer.
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Marion Crawford Francis Marion Crawford (18541909), an American novelist, poet and journalist.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) an American poet and journalist.
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Sic transit gloria urbis. So passes the glory of the town. (Latin)
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Caliphs here: rulers; caliph is a ruler in a Moslem community.
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Oratama a Spanish town invented by the author.
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alcalde the head (both administrative and judicial) of a town or village in Spain.
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the Cordilleras also called the Andes, a mountain system of South America.
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Roosevelt Theodor Roosevelt (18581919), president of the United States in 19011909; he got the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906.
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Grover Cleveland (18371908) an honest and principled politician, president of the USA in 18851889 and 18931897.
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Adam a biblical figure, the first man on Earth created by God in His own image on the sixth day of Creation.
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Talleyrand (17541858) Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French statesman and diplomat during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, and later at the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
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Mrs. De Pompadour Marquise de Pompadour (17211764), an influential figure at the court of Louis XV of France and since 1745 his mistress.
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Loeb Jacques Loeb (18591924), a famous American biologist.
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Long Island Sound the arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the New York shore and Long Island.
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Oyster Bay a town in the state of New York on central Long Island, founded in 16531660.
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Nebuchadnezzars here: barbarians, savages; Nebuchadnezzar II (630 BC561 BC) was the great king of Babylonia, famous for his military expeditions to the Middle East where he, at different time, conquered Syria and Palestine, and crushed the Egyptian army.
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seguramente = of course, certainly. (Spanish)
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Aztec an ancient civilization that formed an enormous empire in the 15th16th centuries in what is now Mexico.
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Yucatan Yucatan Peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
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carruaje = carriage. (Spanish)
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baile = ball, dance. (Spanish)
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botica = drugstore. (Spanish)
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Belize a river in Central America, and a town and seaport on the Caribbean coast.
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The Guilty Party An East Side Tragedy
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New Jersey the US state (19 479 sq. km) on the Atlantic coast.
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the South Sea Islands the Marquesas Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, etс.
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Maypole a painted pole decorated with flowers around which people dance on May Day.
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Buffalo Bills show Buffalo Bills circus.
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By Geronimo! an exclamation of annoyance; Geronimo (18291903) was an Apache leader who led the defense of his native people against the US military might.
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dassent here: have no right to
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David and Goliath biblical characters of the 11th10th centuries BC; David, king of Israel, killed the Philistine giant, Goliath.