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of Wisconsin, the US state in the Midwest
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Chilcoot – a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in Alaska; served as a way to the lands rich in gold.
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Klondiker – here: a gold prospector; gold was found on the Klondike River in the late 1890s.
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Pullmans –
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Mount Saint Elias – a mountain range in the west of Alaska
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Boadicea (1st century) – an ancient British queen who led the revolt against the Romans
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the Bronx – the northern borough of the New York City
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Mr. Kipling – Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), an English writer and poet
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Bryan – a city in east-central Texas, formally founded in 1855
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Mont Pelée – an active volcano on one of the Caribbean islands
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Bearoo – characters in Rudyard Kipling’s tales
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Snakoo – characters in Rudyard Kipling’s tales
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Tammanoo – characters in Rudyard Kipling’s tales
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wootsey squidlums, etc. – pet names
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Peau d’Espagne – a sort of soft cheese
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Madison Square Garden – a sports arena in New York City, built in 1891
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Mendelssohn – Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), a German composer, conductor and pianist of the Romantic period
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Epictetus (55–135) – a Greek philosopher; his teaching was later recorded by Arrian, his pupil.
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prestidigitator = juggler
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the Campbells –
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sulphur-coloured = yellow
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bonbon – a sweet
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laudanum – sedative drug
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paregoric – analgesic drug
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glacé = icy, with frozen heart (
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menstruum = solvent
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socotrine aloes – different medicines
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valerianate of ammonia – different medicines
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gum benzoin – different medicines
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Lochinvar – the main character of Walter Scott’s ballade who stole his beloved one on the very day of her wedding
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Morpheus – in Greco-Roman mythology, the god of sleep
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Elysium – in Greek mythology, the paradise to which immortal heroes were sent
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Mammon – the god of wealth and greed
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Eureka – here: a brand of soap
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the Rambler – the name of a ship
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the Bahamas – an archipelago of nearly 700 islands to the north of Cuba
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Larchmont – a town in the state of New York
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Wallack’s – a theatre in New York City, founded in 1852 by James William Wallack (1795–1864), a leading American actor and theatre manager.
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Mazuma – here: Mammon
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Greely – Adolphus Washington Greely (1844–1935), an American explorer of the Arctic
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à la carte = for choice, at smb’s option
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Hackett – a theatre in New York City, named for James Henry Hackett (1800–1871), a famous American actor.
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per diem = a day (
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entrées = the main course (
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dimuendo con amore = gently dying away (
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thanatopsis – here: drowsiness, laziness, lethargy
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lethean = granting forgetfulness
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Mukden – a city in northeastern China, the scene of the famous Battle of Mukden in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905
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‘The Cloister and the Hearth’ – a historical novel by Charles Reade (1814–1884), an English novelist, dramatist and theatre manager
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the Prodigal Son – a biblical character of the Old Testament
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Crusades – participants of the Crusades, military expeditions of the 11th–13th centuries to the Holy Land, organized by the Catholic Church
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Palisades – here: sward-bearers
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the Sidereal System = the Star System, the Galaxy
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Rudolf Steiner – the name of the main character coincides with the name of the famous Austrian spiritualist and the founder of antroposophy (the philosophy based on the ability of human intellect to contact spiritual worlds) Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925)
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table d’hôte – here: a cheap restaurant with set meals for a fixed price
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Miss Libbey – Lora Jean Libbey (1862–1924), an American writer, the author of sentimental novels
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babel = noise
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Himmel! = Heavens! (
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Jehu – a commander of chariots, and later, in 842 BC–815 BC, the king of Israel
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Jupiter – in Roman mythology, the chief god
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hymeneal –
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Steeple Jack = steeplejack
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hansom – a two-wheeled closed carriage with an elevated driver’s seat, designed by Joseph Hansom in 1834
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foulard – light silk fabric, originally made in the Far East
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al fresco = in the open air (
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Tophet – an ancient ritual burial site in the eastern Mediterranean
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radium – a radioactive silvery white metal
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Gabriel – one of the archangels, the messenger of God; Archangel Gabriel is revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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black and collars that buttoned behind – attire of the Protestant clergymen
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in the ledger kept by G – here: in the book of God
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Reverend Doctor – ‘the Reverend’ is the title of a clergyman in the Western Churches.
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