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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Auburn

Britannica 11th

AUBURN, a city and the county-seat of Androscoggin county, Maine, U.S.A., on the Androscoggin river, opposite Lewiston (with which it practically forms an industrial unit), in the S.W. part of the state. Pop. (1800) 11,250; (1900) 12,951, of whom 2076 were for ...

Vol. 2, pp. 891-891 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Aubin

Britannica 11th

AUBIN, a town o( southern France, in the department of run on ilu- 1 inic, 30 m. N.W. of Kodcz. In 1906 the urban (Hipulation was ing, the communal population 0086. Aubin is the centre of important coal-mines worked in the middle ages, and also has iron-mines,

Vol. 2, pp. 891-891 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73

Elmira

Britannica 11th

... resbyterian) for women, founded in 1855. This institution, chartered in 1852 as Auburn Female University and then situated in Auburn, was rechartered in 1855 as the Elmira Female College; it was established largely through the influence and persistent efforts ...

Vol. 9, pp. 297-297 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Erasmus, Desiderius

Britannica 11th

... 502) and published a small volume of poems; and he became intimate with Johann Mauburnus (Mombaer), the leader of a mission summoned from Windesheim in 1496 to reform the abbey of Chateau-Landon. But the life at Montaigu was too hard for him. Every Lent he fel ...

Vol. 9, pp. 727-732 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0