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ABU SIMBEL, A place in lower Nubia on the left bank of the Nile, 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Derr, remarkable for its two Egyptian temples carved in rock. Both have a front wall made of sandstone and interior walls are dug into solid rock. The smaller …Read more »

I0NA or Icolmkill, also known as I or Hy, small island in the Inner Hebrides (Scotland), separated from Mull by a 2 km (1.24 miles) wide channel, called Strait of I or Icolmkill. This island is 5 km (3.11 miles) long and 2.25 km (1.4 miles) wide …Read more »

GENTIAN s. (lat. gentiana; after Gentius, king of Illyria who first made known the medicinal properties of this plant, in the second century BC). Bot. genus in the family Gentianaceae, which includes a large number of species of perennials plants, most of them indigenous.
The Great Yellow Gentian (gentiana lutea), common …Read more »

KERCH (formerly Panticapaeum or Bosporus), Crimean city on the Strait of Yenikale, commanding the entrance to the Sea of Azof, 170 km (105.63 miles) east-northeast of Simferopol; Pop. approximately 22.450. The present-day city is …Read more »

Jacques Fosse, merchant in Beaucaire, was gifted with one of those vigorous natures and powerful constitutions to which danger is a spur, and it is therefore not surprising that Fosse has become the major rescuer of southern France and of all places where there’s been dangers to be faced and lives to be saved.
Fosse was ten years old when, for the first time, he gave …Read more »

WAXWING s. Ornith. Name given to a group of birds of the genus cotinga⁽¹⁾, especially remarkable because the tip of the secondary feathers on its wings widens into smooth oval red discs. The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus, Linn.) is a …Read more »

KILKENNY. — I. County in Ireland in the province of Leinster; 2,053 km2 ; pop. 109.310. Its surface is slightly bumpy, with a few hills about 300 m high. The River Nore runs across the county, which is bounded on East and South by rivers Barrow and Suir. Abundance of anthracite of lower quality. Quarry of beautiful black marble near Kilkenny. Various stone pillars of the …Read more »