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СКАЧАТЬ city and port on the Mississippi River, founded in 1718 by the French settlers; in 1763 New Orleans was given to the Spanish government, but in 1803 it was returned to France. In the same year Napoleon sold it to the United States

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      Saint Looey – St. Louis – the largest city in Missouri, located on the bank of the Mississippi River; it used to be the Gateway of the West at the time of the first settlers. The Missouri River joins the Mississippi to the north of St. Louis

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      Loozeyanner – Louisiana

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      cabriesto – a kind of rope

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      the garden of Eden – in the Bible, an earthly paradise where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived

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      fracas – noise; noisy quarrel

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      Alacran – Alacran tartarus, a kind of poisonous insects

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      revanche – compensation, satisfaction (French)

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      cantata penserosa – a short musical work for a choir and a soloist

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      hydrophoby – fear of water

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      cavallada – a mare (female horse) (Spanish)

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      mise-en-scène – a scene; view (French)

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      jacalés – a hut with walls covered with clay

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      faro, monté – the names of card games

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      hacienda – an estate and an estate house in Texas, Mexico and South America (Spanish)

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      the Guadalupe mountains – the mountains in western Texas and New Mexico

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      the Llano Estacado – a region in the USA on the border of Texas and New Mexico

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      Ethiopia – the country in eastern Africa (1,063,652 square km)

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      the Mexican war – the war between Mexico and the United States in 1846–1848; after the victory, the USA acquired over 1,300,000 square km of Mexican territory

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      Scott’s campaign – a military campaign in the course of Mexican war

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      monté-table – here: a table used for gambling (French)

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      Colt – Samuel Colt (1814–1868), American firearms manufacturer who perfected and patented a revolver

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      corps-d’armée – army corps (French)

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      Morisco – Moorish (Spanish)

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      Andalusia – a historic region in the south of Spain (87,590 square km); the capital is Seville; Andalusian culture was greatly influenced by many centuries of Moorish rule

Примечания

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Texas – a state in the South West of the USA (678,358 square kilometres); till 1836 Texas belonged to Mexico; after the independence from Mexico had been declared, the territory was included in the USA and became a state in 1845

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savannah – a plain with grass and no trees

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prairie – a level treeless land covered with grass

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the Leona – the river in Texas, USA

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serape – a bright, coloured Mexican shawl or plaid

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cicada – a flying insect which produces a shrill sound in hot, dry weather

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nimbus – a light or golden circle round the saint’s head; a rain cloud

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azure – (poet.) bright blue (usually about the sky)

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centaurean – from centaur – in Greek mythology, a strange creature, half man and half horse

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San Antonio de Bejar – the city in south-central Texas; it was founded by the Spanish expedition from Mexico in 1718

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Osnaburgh – a linen cloth of a certain trademark

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Pittsburgh – the city in Pennsylvania on the Monongahela River; the first settlement was founded in 1758

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Kentucky – the state in the south of the United States (104,664 square kilometres); it was admitted as the 15th state in 1792

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Jehu – the King of Israel (842–815 BC) who was a great chariot driver

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Indianola – the city in central Iowa founded in 1849; there used to be a town of the same name in Texas

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the Gulf of Matagorda – the Bay of Matagorda, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico in southern Texas

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