20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

warriors for the Islamic faith

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Peshawur – a city and capital of province in northern Pakistan

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Portsmouth – a city on the English Channel, in the historic county of Hampshire

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Barts – Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, the oldest hospital in London founded in 1123

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By Jove! – an exclamation of surprise

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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – a famous British historian and essayist

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the Copernican Theory – the heliocentric or Sun-centred system; Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Polish astronomer who said that the Sun is a fixed point, and the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun

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belladonna – a drug made from a poisonous plant of the same name

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opium – a narcotic drug made from poppy and used to relieve pain

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

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Lieder – songs (German)

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Euclid (the 2nd century BC) – an outstanding Greek mathematician of the antique period who is best known for his works in geometry

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Niagara – the Niagara River flowing from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario on the USA-Canadian frontier; the Niagara Falls lie on the border between Ontario, Canada and New York state

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deduction – a conclusion made in the process of reasoning from the general to the particular

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chimerical – unreal; from chimera – a horrible creature of imagination, or some impossible idea or fancy

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – an American writer and poet who is best known as the author of tales of horror and detective stories

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Gaboriau – Émile Gaboriau (1833–1873), a French novelist, the father of the detective novel

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Cleveland – a city and port in northeastern Ohio, the USA, on the southern shore of Lake Erie

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Ohio – a state in the Middle West of the USA

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status quo – the situation as it is now

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Cremona – a city in northern Italy, southwest of Milan, founded in 218 BC by the Romans; the city is famous for its school of violin making

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Stradivarius – Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), a famous Italian violin maker whose violins are still considered the best

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Amati – a family of famous Italian viol