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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Tarnow

Britannica 11th

TARNOW, a town in Galicia, Austria, 164 m. W.N.W. of Lemberg by rail. Pop. (1900) 31,691, about 40 per cent. Jews. It is situated on the river Biala, not far from its junction with the Dunajec, and is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. It possesses a cathedr ...

Vol. 26, pp. 429-429 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Arno

Britannica 11th

ARNO, ARN or AQUILA (c. 750-821), bishop and afterwards archbishop of Salzburg, entered the church at an early age, and after passing some time at Freising became abbot of Elnon, or St Amand as it was afterwards called, where he made the acquaintance of Alcuin

Vol. 2, pp. 631-632 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 36.0

Teano

Britannica 11th

TEANO (anc. Teanum Sidicinum), a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 21 m. N.W. of that town on the main line to Rome from Naples, forming conjointly with Calvi an episcopal see. Pop. (1901) 6067 (town); 13,505 (commune). It stands at the S.E.

Vol. 26, pp. 486-486 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73

Aragonite

Britannica 11th

... gonite sometimes contain small amounts of strontium or lead. A variety known as tarnowitzite, from Tarnowitz in Silesia, contains about 5 % of lead carbonate. Aragonite is the more unstable of the two modifications of calcium carbonate. A crystal of aragonite ...

Vol. 2, pp. 314-314 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0