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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Tuscana

Britannica 11th

TUSCANA (mod. Toscanella, q.v.), an ancient town of Etruria, about 15 m. N.E. of Tarquinii. It is hardly mentioned in ancient literature; it was a station on the road from Blera to Saturnia, a prolongation of the Via Clodia. On the hill of S. Pietro are remain ...

Vol. 27, pp. 484-484 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Toucan

Britannica 11th

TOUCAN, the Brazilian name of a bird,1 long since adopted into nearly all European languages, and apparently first given currency in England (though not then used as an English word) in 1668 2 by W. Charleton (Onomasticon, p. 115); but the bird, with its enorm

Vol. 27, pp. 92-92 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 34.62
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