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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Tacoma
Britannica 11thTACOMA, a city and sub-port of entry, and the county-seat of Pierce county, Washington, U.S.A., on Commencement Bay of Puget Sound, at the mouth of Puyallup river, about 80 m. from the Pacific coast, and about 23 m. S.S.W. of Seattle. Pop. (1890) 36,006; (1900 ...
Vol. 26, pp. 347-347
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Atacama
Britannica 11thATACAMA, a province of northern Chile, bounded N. and S. respectively by the provinces of Antofagasta and Coquimbo, and extending from the Pacific coast E. to the Argentine boundary line. It has an area of 30,729 sq. m., lying in great part within the Atacama
Vol. 2, pp. 822-822
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Thoma
Britannica 11thTHOMA, HANS (1839- ), German painter, was born at Bernau in the Black Forest. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Carlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres. He subsequently studied and worked, with b
Vol. 26, pp. 862-862
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Tompa
Britannica 11thTOMPA. MIHALY [MICHAEL] (1817-1868), Hungarian lyric poet, was born in 1817 at Rima-Szombat,in the county of Gomor, his father being village bootmaker. He studied law and theology in Saros-Patak, and subsequently at Budapest; and, after many vicissitudes, at t
Vol. 26, pp. 1063-1063
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