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rotogravure – a kind of gravure printed by means of transferring liquid ink from depressions in the printing plate to the paper
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Asheville – a city in the Blue Ridge Mountains in west-central Carolina, first settled in 1794
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Hot Springs – a city and spa resort in central Arkansas
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Palm Beach – a resort town in southeastern Florida
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Louisville – the largest city of Kentucky, first settled in 1773
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Doctor T. J. Eckleburg – the billboard with the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, an optometrist, erected to promote his business; in the novel, the empty eyes on the billboard became the symbol of the post-war America.
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the Fourth of July – Independence Day, the United States national holiday
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muslin – cotton fabric, first made in the city of Mosul in what is now Iraq
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Town Tattle – the name of a newspaper
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John D. Rockefeller (1839—1937) – a prominent American industrialist and philanthropist
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the West Hundreds – the hundredth streets in the west of New York City
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Versailles – Palace of Versailles, the former French royal residence, built in 1631–1634 in the city of Versailles in northern France, 16 km west-southwest of Paris
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Simon Called Peter – the name of the popular novel by Robert Keable (1887–1927) of the early 1920s; the title is an allusion to Saint Peter the Apostle whose original name was Simon.
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Kaiser Wilhelm – Wilhelm II (1859–1941), German emperor and King of Prussia till the end of World War I (1918)
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Monte Carlo – a resort on the French Riviera in Monaco, known for its casino opened in 1861
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Marseilles – a city in southern France and one of the major ports on the Mediterranean Sea
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Brook’n Bridge – Brooklyn Bridge that connects Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, to Manhattan
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Tribune – here: the ‘New York Herald Tribune,’ an American daily newspaper
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Castile – a historic region in central Spain
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the Follies – a popular variety show
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Gothic – a style in architecture, painting and sculpture in Western and Central Europe from the 12th century to the end of the 16th century
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Stoddard Lectures – popular illustrated lectures about various countries by John L. Stoddard (1850–1931)
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Belasco – David Belasco (1853–1931), American playwright, theatrical producer and innovator
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banjoes – banjo is a stringed musical instrument of African origin
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Carnegie Hall – a historic concert hall in New York City, opened in 1891, named for Andrew Carnegie, its founder and first owner
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Jersey City – a city in northeastern New Jersey, located on a peninsula between the Hudson and the Hackensack rivers opposite Manhattan Island
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Von Hindenburg – Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), German field marshal during World War I and then, in 1925–1934, the second president of Germany (of the so called Weimar Republic)
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Maine – the US state in the northeast, one of the original New England states
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American Legion – organization of United States war veterans, founded in 1919
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Bois de Boulogne – a large park on the Seine River west of Paris, founded in 1852
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the Argonne Forest – the place of final battles on the Western front in eastern France during World War I
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Lewis guns – machine guns widely used during World War I, invented by Isaac Newton Lewis (1859–1931)
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the East – here: the Eastern states of the USA
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the Civil War – the American Civil War of 1861–1865 between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America (11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860)
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New Haven – Americans associate New Haven with Yale University – a private university in New Haven, Connecticut; the third oldest university in the United States, founded in 1701, it was named for Elihu Yale, a British philanthropist.
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Teutonic = Germanic; Teutonic peoples were peoples of the Germanic group of the Indo-European family.
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the Great War – World War I of 1914—1918
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West Egg village – a residential area of Long Island
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Midas – in Greco-Roman legend, a foolish and greedy king of Phrygia who wished everything he touched turn into gold
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Morgan – John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913),