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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PODOLSK , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Russia, in the See also:

GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

Moscow, 26 m. S. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Moscow, at the junction of the two See also:

main roads from Moscow to the See also:

CRIMEA (ancient Tauris or Tauric Chersonese, called by the Russians by the Tatar name Krym or Crim)

Crimea and to See also:

Warsaw. Pop. (1881), 11,000; (1897), 3808. It is picturesquely built on the hilly See also:

banks of the Pakhra, here crossed by a suspension See also:

BRIDGE

bridge for carriages as well as by the railway bridge. Down to 1781 the wealthy See also:

VILLAGE

village of Podol was a dependency of the Danilov monastery in Moscow. Before the opening of the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern railway the caravans of wagons and sledges to and from Moscow used to See also:

HALT

halt here; the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal occupation of the inhabitants was innkeeping and supplying the caravans with provisions and other necessaries of travel. The See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone quarries, at the confluence of the Desna and the Pakhra, See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply the See also:

capital with See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

BUILDING

building material; and there are a See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement, See also:

lime and See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick factory and a See also:

paper-See also:

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