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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Ventimiglia

Britannica 11th

VENTIMIGLIA (Fr. Vintimille, anc. Album Intimilium or Albintimilium) , a frontier fortress, seaport and episcopal see of Liguria, Italy, in the province of Porto Maurizio, 94 m. W. by S. of Genoa by rail, and 4 m. from the Franco-Italian frontier, 45 ft. above ...

Vol. 27, pp. 1012-1012 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Ventriloquism

Britannica 11th

... attention from the speaker. " Thus," says Huxley, " if the ventriloquist desire VENTIMIGLIA— VENUE to create the belief that a voice issues from the bowels of the earth, he imitates, with great accuracy, the tones of such a half -stifled voice, and suggests th ...

Vol. 27, pp. 1012-1012 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0
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