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(1698) were widely read in the colonies. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a British-American political philosopher; his pamphlet Common Sense justified the American Revolution.

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After eliminating the seven remaining earls of Caledonia, Kenneth I (c.843) had himself declared king of Scotland at the ancient stone of destiny in the Pictish monastery of Scone.

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Prophetesses.

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Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus (A.D. 39-81), Roman emperor whose legions captured and destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

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Whale.

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Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) was a Roman historian; Hannibal (247-183? B.C.) was a general of Carthage who fought numerous battles against the Roman Empire.

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Swedish settlement on the Delaware River; it was captured by the Dutch under Stuyvesant in 1655.

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Herbal remedy used to induce vomiting.

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Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (or Sallust, c.86-c.34 B.C.).

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Substitute or proxy.

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Here referring to Moorish invaders of medieval Spain.

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The first Asturian king, who began the reconquest of Spain from the Saracens.

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Home remedies.

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See footnote on p. 402.

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Dutch common names for the festivals of Easter and Whitsunday (Pentecost).

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Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral who, in the second Dutch War, defeated the English in the naval encounter known as the Four Days’ Battle (June 11-14, 1666); he was defeated in turn by the British at the St. James Day Fight (July 25, 1666).