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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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became a war-cry in their struggle for autonomy. ALARCON, HERNANDO, a Spanishnavigator; flourished in the 16th cen-tury; leader of an expedition to Mexico,which set sail in 1540. He proved thatCalifornia was a peninsula and not anisland, as had been previously supposed.He penetrated in boats a considerabledistance up the Colorado river. On hisreturn to New Spain he made a valuablemap of the California peninsula. ALARC6n Y MENDOZA^ don JUANRUIZ DE (a-lar-kon e man-dotha), anoted Spanish dramatist, born at Tasco,Mexico, about 1580 or 1590. He went toSpain in 1600 and became royal attorneyin Seville. He was appointed reporterof the royal council of the Indies atMadrid about 1628. The last great dram-atist of the old Spanish school, he maybe considered also as the creator of theso-called character comedy. His princi-pal works are: The Weaver of Sego-via; Suspicious Truth, the model forCorneilles Liar; Walls Have Ears;The Proof of Promises; The Anti-Christ. He died in Madrid, Aug. 4,1639.
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AliABIA 87 ALASKA ALABIA, a genus of sea-weeds belong-ing to the order fucacese, or sea-wracks,and the tribe luminaHdse. One species,alaria esculenta, called by the Scotchbalderlocks, is used for food in Ireland,Scotland, Iceland, Denmark, and theFaroe Isles. ALARIC (alar-ik), a celebrated con-queror. King of the Visigoths. He was acommander of the Goths in the service tian, like his people, forbidding his sol-diers to dishonor women or destroy re-ligious buildings. When Alaric quittedRome, it was only to prosecute the con-quest of Sicily. In 410 he died at Co-senza, in Calabria. ALARIC II., eighth King of the Visi-goths, ruled, from 484 onward, Gaul S.of the Loire, and most of Spain. AnArian, he was attacked, completely routed

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