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A chain of coral reefs and sandbanks connecting Ceylon with India.
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A chain of volcanic islands, 150 in number, stretching over the N. Pacific from Alaska in N. America, to Kamchatka, in Asia.
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A change in the physical properties of bodies due to a change of position.
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A character in Beaumarchais' Marriage de Figaro, representative of one of the old noblesse of France, recalling all their manners and vices, who is duped by his valet Figaro, a personification of wit, talent, and intrigue.
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A character in one of Fielding's novels, distinguished for her conjugal affection.
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A character in the "Arabian Nights," who became possessed of a wonderful lamp and a wonderful ring, by rubbing which together he could call two evil genii to do his bidding.
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A chemist who has made a special study of explosives; b. 1827.
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A chief town and seaport in the S. of Spain, an important and flourishing place, next to Granada, under the Moors, and at one time a nest of pirates more formidable than those of Algiers.
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A chief town of Guzerat, in the Bombay Presidency, a populous city and of great splendour in the last century, of which gorgeous relics remain.
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A Christian historian and chronologist of the 3rd century.
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