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Marseilles – a city in southern France and one of the major ports on the Mediterranean Sea

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Brook’n Bridge – Brooklyn Bridge that connects Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, to Manhattan

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Tribune – here: the ‘New York Herald Tribune,’ an American daily newspaper

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Castile – a historic region in central Spain

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the Follies – a popular variety show

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Gothic – a style in architecture, painting and sculpture in Western and Central Europe from the 12th century to the end of the 16th century

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Stoddard Lectures – popular illustrated lectures about various countries by John L. Stoddard (1850–1931)

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Belasco – David Belasco (1853–1931), American playwright, theatrical producer and innovator

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banjoes – banjo is a stringed musical instrument of African origin

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Carnegie 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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Montenegro – one of the Balkan states on the Adriatic Sea

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Trinity Quad – here: Trinity College, founded in 1554

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the Grand Canal – the main waterway of Venice

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Astoria – a commercial, industrial and residential area on Long Island

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the Queensboro Bridge – the bridge over the East River in New York City

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Blackwell’s Island – the former name of Roosevelt Island on the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens in New York City

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highballs – highball is a cocktail of whisky mixed with soda and ice, served in a tall glass

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the World’s Series – baseball championship of the two professional leagues: the American League and the National League; first held in 1903.

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Sauterne – natural sweet wine from the district of Sauterne in France

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the South Seas – a part of the Pacific Ocean where the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa and the Gilbert Islands are located

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Santa Barbara – a city on the Pacific Coast in southwestern California, founded in 1602 and named for the patron saint of mariners

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Ventura – a city on the Pacific Coast in southern California, founded in 1782

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Cannes – a resort city on the French Riviera in southeastern France

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Deauville – a fashionable resort in northern France

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Coney Island – an amusement area in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City

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Clay – Henry Clay (1777–1852), American statesman noted for his system of economic stability and prosperity

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Castle Rackrent – a historical novel by Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), Anglo-Irish writer

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Kant – Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher, the author of many works on the theory of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics, one of the greatest philosophers of all time

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Marie Antoinette (1755—1793) – queen of France, wife of Louis XVI of France; she was imprisoned and executed during the French Revolution.

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Restoration – Bourbon Restoration of 1814–1830 when the Bourbon monarchs were restored to the throne

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Chartreuse – liqueur made from more than 130 plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France

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pompadour – a man’s hairstyle in which hair is combed back without a parting (US)

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Lake Superior – the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America, located on the US-Canadian border

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Platonic conception – here: idealistic conception; Plato (428 BC—328 BC) was one of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers, the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle.

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Lutheran – from Lutheranism, one of the five main branches of Protestantism (the branch of Western Christianity)

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College of St. Olaf’s = St. Olaf College, a private higher educational institution in southeastern Minnesota, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; it was founded in 1874 by Norwegian immigrants, and named for Saint Olaf, the patron saint of Norway.

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seventy-five – here: 1875

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Madame de Maintenon (1635—1719) – the second wife and untitled queen of Louis XIV of France, noted for her piety and philanthropy

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the West Indies – a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the ocean

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Trimalchio – a fictional character, a very rich and vulgar person from ‘The Satyricon’ by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman author

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quart – measure of liquid capacity equal to 1.13 litre in Britain, and 0.94 litre in the USA

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mint julep – a drink of whisky mixed with water, sugar, mint and ice

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Mendelssohn – Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), German composer, conductor and pianist of the early Romantic period

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Memphis – a city in southwestern Tennessee on the border with Arkansas and Mississippi

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Kapiolani – a resort area in Honolulu, the capital and the main port o СКАЧАТЬ