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Half-Timber Work - LoveToKnow 1911 Sep 3, 2006 ... HALF-TIMBER WORK, an architectural term given to those buildings in which the framework is of timber with vertical studs and cross pieces ... 2.
Rackett - LoveToKnow 1911 Oct 6, 2006 ... RACKETT, or Rackett-Bassoon (Fr. cervelas or cervelat; Ger. Racket!, Rankett or Wurstfagott), a kind of dwarf bassoon, now obsolete, ... 3.
Exilarch - LoveToKnow 1911 Sep 3, 2006 ... EXILARCH, in Jewish history, "Chief or Prince of the Captivity." The Jews of Babylonia, after the fall of the first temple, were termed by ... 4.
Halifax, England - LoveToKnow 1911 May 28, 2007 ... HALIFAX, a municipal, county and parliamentary borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 194 m. N.N.W. from London and 7 m. ... 5.
Halifax, England - LoveToKnow 1911 May 28, 2007 ... In 1635 the king granted the inhabitants of Halifax licence to found a workhouse in a large house given to them for that purpose by ... 6.
Cambaluc - LoveToKnow 1911 Sep 2, 2006 ... CAMBALUC, the name by which, under sundry modifications, the royal city of the great khan in China became known to Europe during the middle ... 7.
Lado Enclave - LoveToKnow 1911 Sep 3, 2006 ... LADO ENCLAVE, a region of the upper Nile formerly administered by the Congo Free State, but since 1910 a province of the Anglo-Egyptian ... 8.
Table Mountain - LoveToKnow 1911 Oct 21, 2006 ... Specifically Table Mountain is the mountain which arises behind Table Bay, in the Cape Peninsula, Cape Town lying at its seaward base and on ... 9.
Spain - LoveToKnow 1911 In the case of the weights and measures the French names were also adopted, ...... This cabinet gave its chief attention. for fifteen mon.ths to the ... 10.
Exogamy - LoveToKnow 1911 Sep 3, 2006 ... EXOGAMY (Gr. i' co, outside; and y6pos, marriage), the term proposed by J. F. McLennan for the custom compelling marriage "out of the tribe" ... |
