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СКАЧАТЬ Hall – a historic concert hall in New York City, opened in 1891, named for Andrew Carnegie, its founder and first owner

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      Jersey City – a city in northeastern New Jersey, located on a peninsula between the Hudson and the Hackensack rivers opposite Manhattan Island

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      Von Hindenburg – Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), German field marshal during World War I and then, in 1925–1934, the second president of Germany (of the so called Weimar Republic)

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      Maine – the US state in the northeast, one of the original New England states

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      American Legion – organization of United States war veterans, founded in 1919

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      Bois de Boulogne – a large park on the Seine River west of Paris, founded in 1852

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      the Argonne Forest – the place of final battles on the Western front in eastern France during World War I

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      Lewis guns – machine guns widely used during World War I, invented by Isaac Newton Lewis (1859–1931)

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Примечания

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the East – here: the Eastern states of the USA

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the Civil War – the American Civil War of 1861–1865 between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America (11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860)

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New Haven – Americans associate New Haven with Yale University – a private university in New Haven, Connecticut; the third oldest university in the United States, founded in 1701, it was named for Elihu Yale, a British philanthropist.

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Teutonic = Germanic; Teutonic peoples were peoples of the Germanic group of the Indo-European family.

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the Great War – World War I of 1914—1918

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West Egg village – a residential area of Long Island

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Midas – in Greco-Roman legend, a foolish and greedy king of Phrygia who wished everything he touched turn into gold

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Morgan – John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), a prominent American financier and industrialist

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Maecenas – Gaius Maecenas (70 BC—8 BC), a Roman diplomat, statesman and patron of Virgil and Horace, the most famous ancient Roman poets

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Long Island Sound – the arm of the Atlantic Ocean between the states of New York and Connecticut in the north and Long Island in the south; Long Island is an island in the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast of New York state, parallel to the shore of Connecticut.

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the egg in the Columbus story – the egg crushed flat at one end; here: the unusual shape of the formation of land.

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yards – yard is a unit of length equal to 0.9144 metre

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Hotel de Ville = city hall (French)

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Normandy – a historic region in northern France with its own culture, and a long and rich history

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acres – acre is a unit of land measurement equal to 4.047 square metres

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East Egg – an area of Long Island

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Lake Forest – a city in Lake county in northeastern Illinois, first settled in 1835

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Georgian Colonial (style) – various styles in architecture and decorative arts in 1714–1830, between George I and the death of George IV, kings of Great Britain

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mile – unit of distance equal to 1.609 km

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claret – red Bordeaux wine from the region of the city of Bordeaux, known since Roman times

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Nordics, the Nordic race – Northern European peoples of Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland; a Northern physical type is blond, tall, bony.

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the Cunard or White Star Line – the Cunard White Star Line Ltd., the first regular Atlantic steamship line between England and North America, founded by Sir Samuel Cunard (1787–1865)

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feet – pl. from foot – unit of length equal to 30.48 cm

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the Saturday Evening Post – American weekly journal published in Philadelphia from 1821 till 1969

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rotogravure – a kind of gravure printed by means of transferring liquid ink from depressions in the printing plate to the paper

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Asheville – a city in the Blue Ridge Mountains in west-central Carolina, first settled in 1794

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Hot Springs – a city and spa resort in central Arkansas

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Palm Beach – a resort town in southeastern Florida

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Louisville – the largest city of Kentucky, first settled in 1773

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Doctor T. J. Eckleburg – the billboard with the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, an optometrist, erected to promote his business; in the novel, the empty eyes on the billboard became the symbol of the post-war America.

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the Fourth of July – Independence Day, the United States national holiday

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muslin – cotton fabric, first made in the city of Mosul in what is now Iraq

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Town Tattle – the name of a newspaper

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John D. Rockefeller (1839—1937) – a prominent American industrialist and philanthropist

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the West Hundreds – the hundredth streets in the west of New York City

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Versailles – Palace of Versailles, the former French royal residence, built in 1631–1634 in the city of Versailles in northern France, 16 km west-southwest of Paris

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Simon Called Peter – the name of the popular novel by Robert Keable (1887–1927) of the early 1920s; the title is an allusion to Saint Peter the Apostle whose original name was Simon.

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Kaiser Wilhelm – Wilhelm II (1859–1941), German emperor and King of Prussia till the end of World War I (1918)

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