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121Names of Ho Chi Minh City — A 1910 postcard showing the name Saigon (French: Saïgon), a westernized version of the Vietnamese Sài Gòn. The city now known as Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh …
122Blackness — BLACKNESS, a village, in the parish of Carriden, county of Linlithgow, 3 miles (E.) from Borrowstounness; containing 107 inhabitants. This place, formerly the sea port of Linlithgow, and the residence of numerous merchants, who carried on an… …
123port — A place for the loading and unloading of the cargoes of vessels, and the collection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, on the seacoast, great lakes, or on a river, where ships stop for the purpose of loading and unloading… …
124cocket — A custom house seal; a certificate issued by a customs officer showing the payment of duties …
125HART, EMANUEL BERNARD — (1809–1897), New York City Democratic politician and leader of Jewish institutions. Hart was born in New York City, son of Bernard Hart, a New York Stock Exchange member, and Rebecca Seixas Hart. He began his political activity in 1832 as a… …
126United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
127JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …
128Dagomba people — Dagomba Total population 8,655,700 (2000) Regions with significant populations Ghana Languages Dagbani, Hausa, English Religion predominantly Sunni Islam, sometimes mix …
