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MAZATLAN , a See also:city and See also:port of the See also:state of See also:Sinaloa, See also:Mexico, 120 m. (See also:direct) W.S.W. of the city of See also:Durango, in See also:lat. 23° 12' N., See also:long. 106° 24' W. Pop. (1895), 15,852; (1900), 17,852. It is
the Pacific See also:coast See also:terminus of the See also:International railway which' See also:Charles, a See also:week later, passed Baturin by, all that remained of the Cossack See also:capital was a heap of smouldering See also:mills and ruined houses. The See also:total destruction of Baturin, almost in sight of the Swedes, overawed the bulk of the See also:Cossacks into obedience, and Mazepa's See also:ancient See also:prestige was ruined in a See also:day when the See also:metropolitan of See also:Kiev solemnly excommunicated him from the high See also:altar, and his effigy, after being dragged with contumely through the mud at Kiev, was publicly burnt by the See also:common hangman. Henceforth Mazepa, perforce, attached himself to Charles. What See also:part he took at the See also:battle of See also:Poltava is not quite clear. After the See also:catastrophe he accompanied Charles to See also:Turkey with some 1500 horsemen (the miserable remnant of his 8o,000 warriors). The See also:sultan refused to surrender him to the See also:tsar, though See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter offered 300,000 ducats for his See also:head. He died at See also:Bender on the 22nd of See also:August 1709.
See N. I. Kostomarov, Mazepa and the Mazepanites (Russ.) (St See also:Petersburg), 1885; R. Nisbet See also:Bain, The First Romanovs (See also:London, 1905); S. M. Solovev, See also:History of See also:Russia (Russ.), vol. xv. (St See also:Peters-See also:burg, 1895). (R. N. B.)
crosses See also:northern Mexico from See also:Ciudad Porfirio See also:Diaz, and a port of See also:call for the See also:principal steamship lines on this coast. The See also:harbour is spacious, but the entrance is obstructed by a See also:bar. The city is built on a small See also:peninsula. Its public buildings include a See also:fine See also:town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, chamber of See also:commerce, a See also:custom-See also:house and two hospitals, besides which there is a nautical school and a meteorological station, one of the first established in Mexico. The harbour is provided with a See also:sea-See also:wall at Olas Altas. A See also:government wireless See also:telegraph service is maintained between Mazatlan and La Paz, See also:Lower See also:California. Among the manufactures are saw-mills, foundries, See also:cotton factories and ropeworks, and the exports are chiefly hides, ixtle, dried and salted See also:fish, See also:gold, See also:silver and See also:copper (bars and ores), See also:fruit, See also:rubber, See also:tortoise-See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell, and, gums and resins.
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