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81CARDAN, JEROME — Italian physician and mathematician, born at Pavia; was far famed as a physician; studied and wrote on all manner of known subjects, made discoveries in algebra, believed in astrology, left a candid account of himself entitled De Vita Propria… …
82ECGBERHT — archbishop of York; was a pupil of Bede, and the heir to his learning; founded a far famed school at York, which developed into a university; flourished in 766 …
83FOULIS, ROBERT and ANDREW — celebrated printers; were brought up in Glasgow, where Robert, the elder, after practising as a barber, took to printing, and in 1743 became printer to the university; his press was far famed for the beauty and accuracy of editions of the… …
84HARZ MOUNTAINS — a mountain range of N. Germany, stretching for 57 m. between the Weser and the Elbe to the S. of Brunswick; it forms a picturesque and diversified highland, is a favourite resort of tourists, and rises to its greatest elevation in the far… …
85HYPATIA — a far famed lady teacher of Greek philosophy in Alexandria, distinguished for her beauty and purity of life, who, one day in 415, on her return home from her lecture room, was massacred in the streets of the city, at the instance, of both Jews …
86MILETUS — the foremost Ionian city of ancient Asia Minor, at the mouth of the Mæander, was the mother of many colonies, and the port from which vessels traded to all the Mediterranean countries and to the Atlantic; its carpets and cloth were far famed;… …
87SYDENHAM — a district of Kent and suburb of London, to the SE. of which it lies 7 m., includes the Surrey parish of Lambeth, where in 1852 54 the Crystal Palace was erected and still stands, a far famed sight of London, containing valuable collections… …
88Nairn — NAIRN, a royal burgh, a parish, and the seat of a presbytery, in the county of Nairn; containing, with the village of Seatown of Delnies, 3393 inhabitants, of whom 2672 are in the burgh, 15½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Inverness, and 167 (N. N. W …
89Hesperus — late 14c., poetic for the evening star, from L. Hesperus, from Gk. hesperos (aster) western (star), from PIE *wes pero evening, night (see VESPER (Cf. vesper)). Hence also Hesperides (1590s), from Greek, daughters of the West, the nymphs… …
90Pericles — Athenian statesman (c.495 429 B.C.E.), from Gk. Perikles, lit. far famed, from peri all around (see PERI (Cf. peri )) + kles fame (see DAMOCLES (Cf. Damocles)). His leadership of Athens marks its intellectual and material zenith …
