The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 1Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... SPAIN History T HE key to comprehension of Spain and the Spaniards is to be found in the flow and ebb of the vast tide of Moorish invasion . There had been Phoenician settlers in Spain as in Cornwall over a thousand years before Christ ...
... SPAIN History T HE key to comprehension of Spain and the Spaniards is to be found in the flow and ebb of the vast tide of Moorish invasion . There had been Phoenician settlers in Spain as in Cornwall over a thousand years before Christ ...
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... Spain had then known . Spanish Empire The same year in which a new world was discovered by Chris- topher Columbus , who laid it at the feet of Ferdinand and Ysabel , Spain began to acquire enormous strength , until Ferdinand's grandson ...
... Spain had then known . Spanish Empire The same year in which a new world was discovered by Chris- topher Columbus , who laid it at the feet of Ferdinand and Ysabel , Spain began to acquire enormous strength , until Ferdinand's grandson ...
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... Spain , surpassed only by the tremendous Kaaba of Mecca , the holy city of the Muhammadans . The first impression is of a labyrinth of nearly a thousand stunted pillars of precious stones -jasper , porphyry and marble - forming a score ...
... Spain , surpassed only by the tremendous Kaaba of Mecca , the holy city of the Muhammadans . The first impression is of a labyrinth of nearly a thousand stunted pillars of precious stones -jasper , porphyry and marble - forming a score ...
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FRANCE | 9 |
The land and the peopleA rich variety of sceneryThe | 24 |
BELGIUM | 65 |
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