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Palm Beach – a famous resort on the Atlantic coast in Florida
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cicerone – a guide who describes to sightseers the places of interest
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Tuskageenial – the word invented by the author from Tuskagee, a city in central Alabama, and genial (kindly, sociable)
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lambrequins – the Baroque style ornaments; originally the mantling on a helmet to shield the wearer from the sun’s rays.
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tocsin = poisonous
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goblin – in Western folklore, a mischievous and malicious spirit attached to a household
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Stygian – here: terrible; from Styx, in Greek mythology, a river in the underworld.
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epicedian tears – here: mournful tears
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Falstaff – a fictional character in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’
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Momus – in Greek mythology, the god of mockery
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Avaunt! = Go away! Off with you!
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Helen – Helen of Troy, a beauty, the cause of the Trojan War
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Cassiopeia – a constellation in the Milky Way Galaxy
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balustrade – a row of banisters to support a handrail on a balcony, staircase, etc.
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Erebus – here: darkness; in Greek mythology, Erebus (Darkness) is the offspring of Chaos.
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debility – weakness (of health)
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Wagner – Richard Wagner (1813–1883), a German dramatic composer
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Waldteufel – Emil Waldteufel (1887–1915), a French pianist and waltz composer
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Oolong – a famous sort of Chinese tea
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the Golden Gate – the strait in California between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean
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Hatteras – Cape Hatteras in North Carolina
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Cape Horn – a rocky headland on the southern tip of South America in Chile
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the Labrador – the Labrador current in North Atlantic Ocean, between Canada and Greenland
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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) – a famous Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
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inches – an
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feet – pl. from
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Astrakhan rug portieres – thick woolen curtains
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Peoria – a city in central Illinois
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parkscape – from
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the smile of the Cheshire cat – a very wide smile
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Paphian = sensual
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typograph – a typewriter for the blind
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the Battery – White Point Gardens in South Carolina with monuments and military relics
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Gotham – a legendary village in Nottinghamshire in England; in English legend, Wise Men of Gotham were wise fools who pretended stupidity to avoid unwanted expenses.
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Bellevue Hospital – a famous hospital in New York City
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the Vesuvian Bay – the Bay of Naples in southern Italy with Vesuvius, an active volcano rising high above it
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Boreas – in Greek mythology, the personification of the north wind
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bluecoats – here: policemen
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Blackwell’s – the name of the prison
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the Riviera – the seacoast on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France
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Caesar (100 BC–44 BC) – a Roman ruler, general and dictator, assassinated by the group of conspirators
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Brutus (85 BC–42 BC) – a Roman politician, one of the leaders in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar
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Chablis – white wine of northern Burgundy in France, made of Chardonnay grapes
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Camembert – cheese of Normandy, covered with white mold
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Yale – a private university in New Haven, one of the oldest universities in the USA, founded in 1701
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Hartford College – University of Hartford in Connecticut, founded in 1877
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Arcadia – in Greek and Roman poetry and the Renaissance literature, the blessed country, paradise
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Hendrik (Henry) Hudson (1565–1611) – an English navigator and explorer whose name was given to a river, a strait and a bay
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Napoleon III (1808–1873) – president of the Second Republic of France, and since 1852 emperor of France
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Minerva – in Roman religion, the goddess of handicrafts, profession and arts
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the Palisades – high vertical rocks along the west side of the Hudson River
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Yosemite – Yosemite Valley, a picturesque region in east-central California
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Haydn – Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), a famous Austrian composer of the Classical style in music
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Carnegie medal – the award given for heroic deeds, established by Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), a famous American industrialist and philanthropist
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Morgan – John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), an American financier and industrialist
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the Badgers – the nickname of the residents of Wisconsin, the US state in the Midwest
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Chilcoot – a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in Alaska; served as a way to the lands rich in gold.
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Klondiker – here: a gold prospector; gold was found on the Klondike River in the late 1890s.
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Mount Saint Elias – a mountain range in the west of Alaska
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Boadicea (1st century) – an ancient British queen who led the revolt against the Romans
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the Bronx – the northern borough of the New York City
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Mr. Kipling – Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), an English writer and poet
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Bryan – a city in east-central Texas, formally founded in 1855
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Mont Pelée – an active volcano on one of the Caribbean islands
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Bearoo – characters in Rudyard Kipling’s tales
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