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Britannia metal – the alloy composed of tin, antimony and copper, used for making household utensils
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Penzance – a town in Cornwall where the English Channel joins the Atlantic Ocean
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escutcheon – a metal plate placed on a wooden article either to decorate it or to protect the wood
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chartreuse – the liqueur made from more than 130 different plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France
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Derby – one of the most famous English horse races, an annual event since 1730; the Derby is run on the first Saturday of June.
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cheroot – a thin cigar open at both ends
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claret – famous Bordeaux wine made since Roman times in the region around the city of Bordeaux in France; the word
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hansom – a low two-wheeled open carriage with the elevated driver’s seat
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West Kensington – a fashionable district in central London
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W. – West
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brougham – a four-wheeled one-horse carriage designed in 1838 by Henry Brougham, a former lord chancellor of England
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Alabama – the US state in the south (131 334 sq. km); the first Europeans who came there were the Spanish, the first settlement was founded by the French in 1701; after the war of 1763, the territory was ceded to England.
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the Federal army – the army of the federal government in the American Civil War of 1861–1865 with 11 Southern states
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the Southern cause – the southern states seceded from the Union in 1860–1861; the Northern and the Southern states had different economies, different attitude to slavery, trade and the very idea of states’ rights.
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Corinth – a city in northeastern Mississippi; the bloody battle took place to the north of the city during the American Civil War.
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the Yanks – Yankees, a nickname of the citizens of New England states; the word was used by Southerners for Northerners and Federal soldiers during the American Civil War.
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Niagara – Niagara Falls on the Niagara River in northeastern North America, on the USA-Canadian border
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Aeolian harps –
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delirium – mental state marked by confused thinking, hallucinations, etc. as a result of the intoxication of the brain caused by fever or some other physical disorder
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Monterey – a city in California, 135 km south of San Francisco; the first Europeans in the region were the Spanish in 1542.
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the Blavatsky people – followers of Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), an occultist and spiritualist; she founded the Theosophical Society to promote theosophy (divine wisdom), a philosophical-religious system.
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Sepoy – 1) a place in India; 2) an Indian soldier in the service of the British India Company.
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the Thugs – members of the Indian organization of professional assassins who travelled throughout the country for several cen-turies since 1356
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vraisemblance = love of truth (
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Garrick – David Garrick (1717–1779), a famous English actor, producer and dramatist, one of the managers of the Drury Lane Theatre in London
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the Syndicate Mill – a mill belonging to the Syndicate, an association of racketeers in control of organized crime in the USA
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Dionysius (430 BC–367 BC) – a tyrant of Syracuse, an ancient Greek city on the east coast of Sicily
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Pall Mall – Pall Mall Gazette, a British newspaper, one of the “poplars”
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tetradrachm – an ancient Greek coin used for trade with the Scythians and the Celts
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Offa – the king of Mercia (757–796), one of the most powerful kings of Anglo-Saxon England
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Mercia – one of the most powerful kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England in the 7th–9th centuries
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Richmond – an outer borough (an incorporate town or district with special privileges) of London, along the River Thames
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Padua – a city in northern Italy, west of Venice, first mentioned in 302 BC
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Euclideas – here: one of ancient Greek coins
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Kentuckian – a resident of Kentucky, the US state in the south (102 694 sq. km)
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a Sandwich Islander – a resident of the Sandwich Islands, the second name of the Hawaiian Islands, a group of the volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean; the first European who visited the islands in 1778 was Captain James Cook (1728–1779).
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Pompadour – Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), the mistress of Louis XV, king of France; she was a well-educated woman and a patron of art and literature.
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Olympus – a mount in Greece (2,917 m); in Greek mythology, the place where gods lived.
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the Lost Atlantis – a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, described by antique authors as a highly developed and powerful civilization
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Florence – a city in central Italy, founded in the 1st century BC and notable for its works of art
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the Commandments – in the Bible, the list of religious principles revealed to Moses, a Hebrew prophet of the 14th—13th centuries BC, on Mount Sinai
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the Mosaic Law – the religious principles of Judaism revealed to Moses, a Hebrew prophet of the 14th—13th centuries BC
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the Legion of Hono(u)r – the National Order of the Legion of Honour, a military and civil order of the French Republic, created by Napoleon in 1802
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damask – a silk, fine, patterned fabric, originally produced in Damascus, Syria
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catechism – a religious instruction in the form of questions and answers
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portière – heavy curtains hung in a doorway
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Marseilles – a city and port in southern France on the Mediterranean Sea, founded 2,500 years ago
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Desdemona – a fictional character in Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Othello’ (1603)
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