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• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  [[Image:The.Cambridge.History.of.English.and.American.Literature.gif|right]] ...ish poetry]] and end with the late [[Victorian era]]. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early twentieth
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• Paracetamol
  ...pack sizes on paracetamol poisoning in the United Kingdom: a review of the literature |journal=Drug Saf |volume=30 |issue=6 |pages=465–79 |year=2007 |pmid=1753 }}</ref> The lack of the English name paracetamol makes it difficult for non-Chinese-speaking travellers loo
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• Aconitum
  ...ior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood. There are 2–10 [[petal]]s, in the form of nectaries. The ''Aconitum'' features in literature in a number of instances:
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• Datura inoxia
  ...is often cited as ''D. innoxia''. The plant was first described in 1768 by English botanist [[Philip Miller]], who spelled it ''D. inoxia''. The name ''Datura ...tura metel]]'', to the point of being confused with it in early scientific literature. ''D. metel'' is a closely related Old World plant for which similar effec
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• Hellebore
  Other species names (now considered invalid) may be encountered in older literature, including ''H. hyemalis'', ''H. polychromus'', ''H. ranunculinus'', ''H. t ...ic Smith. In recent years, Ashwood Nurseries (of [[Kingswinford]] in the [[English Midlands]]), already well-known for its Ashwood Garden Hybrids (''H.'' × '
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• Digitalis
  ...e derivation of the name "foxglove". According to the 19th century book, ''English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants'': ...ester|first=Mrs.|others=Sowerby J, Smith C, Johnson J.E, Salter J.W.|title=English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants (full text)|editor=Boswell J
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• Lily of the Valley
  The name "lily of the valley" is also used in some English translations of the [[Bible]] in [[Song of Songs]] 2:1, although whether or ...tion: ''The Poisonous and Medical plants of Finland'', no known translated literature available)</ref>, and is currently used by [[herbalists]] as a restricted h
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• Euphorbia
  The [[common name]] "spurge" derives from the [[Middle English]]/[[Old French]] ''espurge'' ("to purge"), due to the use of the plant's sa ...ublicaciones/resumeness/ABM/ABM.65.2003/acta65(45–50).pdf PDF fulltext] [English with Spanish abstract]
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• Temazepam
  ...|pmid=10622686 |doi=10.1016/S0924-977X(99)00051-6}}</ref> A review of the literature found that non-pharmacological treatment options were a more effective trea ...=Parker WA |year=1982 |month= |title=Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome: a literature review and evaluation |journal=The American journal of drug and alcohol abu
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...[[Northwestern University]] where he received his Ph.D. in the History and Literature of Religions in 1975. His doctoral dissertation surveyed some 800 religious ...The purpose of such contact has been to obtain the group's main religious literature to ascertain their principal teachings and practices. His inquiries also co
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• Thomas Spencer Baynes
  ...ly News]]''. In 1864 he was appointed Professor of [[Logic]] and [[English Literature]] at [[St Andrews University]], in which capacity his mind was drawn to the ...880, he was assisted by [[William Robertson Smith]]. Baynes was the first English-born editor of the ''Britannica''; all earlier editors were Scottish.
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• William Robertson Smith
  ...V (1886), "David" VI (1887), "Decalogue" VII (1877), "Hebrew Language and Literature" XI (1880), "Hosea" XII (1881), "Jerusalem" XIII (1881), "Mecca" & "Medina" ...iew" of [[Rudolf Kittel]], ''Geschichte der Hebräer, II'' (1892) in the ''English Historical Review'' 8:314-316 (1893).
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  |[[Literature]] ...e success of the [[United States]] in part to "a population mainly of good English blood and instincts".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=American War of Indepen
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | language = English ...ædia Britannica''''' ([[Latin]] for "British Encyclopaedia") is a general English-language [[encyclopedia|encyclopaedia]] published by [[Encyclopædia Britan
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• Propædia
  | '''6.2''' Particular [[Arts]] || '''6.2.1'''&nbsp;[[Literature]] '''6.2.2'''&nbsp;[[Theater]] '''6.2.3'''&nbsp;[[Motion pictures|Motion Pi ...e Literature, [[Rutgers University]] (1953-1969); Professor of Comparative Literature, [[Princeton University]] (1973-1981) || 45
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...ed in the 18th century, beginning with ''Lexicon technicum, or A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences'' by [[John Harris (writer)|John Harris]] ( ...lopaedia'' were still popular, and despite the commercial failure of other English encyclopedias, Macfarquhar and Bell were inspired by the intellectual ferme
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• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
  ...egions, towns, cities, geographical features that occur in Greek and Roman literature, without forgetting those mentioned solely in the Bible. The work was last
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• Encyclopædia Perthensis
  ...collected from every source and intended to supersede the use of all other English books of reference''" was published in [[Perth, Scotland]] by [[C. Mitchel ...he author of much ease and convenience. The application of such remarks to literature, is obvious and natural; but for the arrangement of Geography into [[Gazett
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...ship superior to either of the more recent Jewish Encyclopedias written in English."<ref>Joshua L. Segal, [http://www.betenu.org/rabbi/nov03.html Rabbi's Mess ...Jewish Quarterly Review]]''. The significance of the work's publication in English rather than German or Hebrew is captured by [[Harry Wolfson]] writing in 19
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• The Nuttall Encyclopædia
  ...] (d. 1869), whose works, such as ''Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language'' (published in 1863), were eventually acquired by Frederick Warne ...g with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art".
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• A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
  | language = [[English language|English]] ...y popular<ref name="WAndrews" /> with 47 editions being printed by 1905 in English alone,<ref name="booklist" /> and this popularity enabled Brewer to gather
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