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    Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles...
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  • Enzyklopädie, successive editions of the Conversations-Lexikon encyclopedia Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a major German language encyclopedia from 1839 to...
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    p. 81. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon vol 11: Marco, p. 908. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon vol 11: Libbra, p. 311. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon vol 14:...
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  • allowed them to achieve certain results.: 100  According to the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1885–90), peoples included in the Mongoloid race are North Mongol...
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    Joseph Meyer (9 May 1796 - 27 June 1856) was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopaedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Meyer was...
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    well-known titles as Meyers Lexikon (encyclopaedias, since 1839, see Meyers Konversations-Lexikon), Brehms Tierleben (animal life, 1863–1869, 4th ed. 1911–1918);...
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  • "Caucasian" as it had fallen out of usage. In the 19th century Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1885–1890), Caucasoid was one of the three great races of humankind...
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  • end of the 19th century, the influential German encyclopaedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, divided humanity into three major races called Caucasoid, Mongoloid...
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    it was decided that former BIM serial reference works such as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon would henceforth be marketed under the name of Brockhaus. Thirteen...
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  • historiography, ethnography, and anthropology from this era, such as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Nordisk familjebok, H. G. Wells's A...
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  • dictionary. Christian Adolph Klotz Christian Adolf Klotz in: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4. Aufl., 1888, Vol. 9, Page 859 Dirk Goettsche. "Zeitgeist"...
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    Verlag F.A. Brockhaus sind darauf hingewiesen worden, dass in Meyers Konversations Lexikon und im Großen Brockhaus künftig nicht Siegfried Marcus, sondern...
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  • 11th Edition) Christian Adolph Klotz Christian Adolf Klotz in: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4. Aufl., 1888, Vol. 9, Page 859 Dirk Goettsche. "Zeitgeist"...
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    stannum/stāgnum is unknown; it may be pre-Indo-European. The Meyers Konversations-Lexikon suggests instead that stannum came from Cornish stean, and is...
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    exterior and an interior filled with fizzy powder Brausepulver in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1895) Richards, John (28 April 1816). "Richards' Portable Sherbet...
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    Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0520022102. Retrieved 1 December 2016. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition, 1885-90, T11, p.476. Sanders, Edith R. (October...
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    Erroneous International Date Line from the 1888 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, running between the Spanish Philippine Islands and British Hong Kong. The...
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    "Thiersch". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 15 (4th ed.). 1890. pp. 654–655. "Wien (Kirchen, Profanbauten)". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German)...
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    Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig/Vienna 1885–1892, p. 0780. Raugraf. In: Meyers...
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  • F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1852, Page 471-472, in German. [1] Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th Edition, Volume 6, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1885–1892...
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    The corona obsidionalis (illustration from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885)...
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  • (middle name, Meyers, 1890–1980), Mississippi politician Look up Meyers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a major German...
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    Company. 1890. p. 435. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 14th edition, vol. 11, Leipzig 1894, p. 76 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 6th edition, vol. 12, Leipzig...
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    domesticated silk moths. Top to bottom: Bombyx mori, Hyalophora cecropia, Antheraea pernyi, Samia cynthia. From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1885–1892)...
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    Christogram Rota (papal signature) Royal cypher Tughra Chrismon in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4th ed. (1888/9). from stauros "stake, cross"; the same term...
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    Kriegsbeschädigten bereits Selbstverständlichkeit geworden sind.") Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 8. Aufl., Bd. 8, Sp. 14 – Muttertag (In English: 8th Edition...
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    A rendition of Huldrych Zwingli from the 1906 edition of the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon...
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    Drawing of a stepped reckoner from 1897 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, showing a 12-digit version...
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    hirsutus) after the rough (i.e. mountainous) terrain. Raugraf. In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts...
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