75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

the Solomons – a group of islands in southwestern Pacific Ocean, discovered by the Spanish explorers in 1568

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Sydney – a city and port on the southeastern coast of Australia

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Winchester rifle – a famous rifle developed by Oliver Winchester (1810–1880), an American manufacturer of guns

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Santa Cruz – a group of volcanic islands in the Solomon Islands

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Samoans – residents of Samoa, an island in the Pacific northwest of New Zealand

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Tongans – residents of Tonga, an island in the South Pacific Ocean

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Fiji – an island group of Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean, west of Samoa and Tonga

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Queensland – a state in northeastern Australia

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New Britain, New Ireland – islands of the Bismarck Archipelago in the southwestern Pacific Ocean

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New Guinea – an island of the Malay Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia

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the Admiralties – the island group of 40 islands in Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean

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Guadalcanal – the largest island of the Solomon Islands in the southeastern Pacific Ocean

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the Yukon – a river in North America; it flows through northwestern Canada and the central regions of Alaska, US.

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the Chilcoot Pass – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used as a way to the lands rich in gold

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Dyea – a river and town in the Rocky Mountains in Canada

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Dawson – a city in Canada on the border with Alaska, at the confluence of the Klondike and the Yukon Rivers, named for geologist George Dawson

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Nulato – a settlement on the Yukon River in Alaska

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St. Michael – an island on the Yukon River

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Bering Sea – a part of the Pacific Ocean in the north; it separates Asia from Alaska in North America.

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Sixty Mile – a fort on the Yukon River

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Mercury – the closest to the Sun planet of the solar system

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anaesthetic – medicine that relieves pain or produces general loss of sensation

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Dagon – in the Middle East, the Semitic god of fertility, the legendary inventor of the plow

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the Great War – World War I of 1914–1918

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the Hun(s) – primitive nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century and built an enormous empire

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Paradise Lost – a famous poem by John Milton

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Stygian – 1) related to Styx, in Greek mythology, the river of the underworld, the symbol of death; 2) dark, gloomy.

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Cyclopean – in Greek mythology, Cyclops are one-eyed giants and cannibals living a rude primitive life in a distant land

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hieroglyphics – a system of writing in the form of pictures which are used as symbols for words or syllables

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Doré – Gustave Doré (1832–1883), a famous French printmaker and book illustrator

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Piltdown (man) – an extinct man whose remains were discovered in 1810 by Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and geologist

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Neanderthal man – an archaic man who appeared 300 000 years ago and was replaced by modern humans 25 000–30 000 years ago

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Polyphemus – in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclops

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ethnologist – a scientist who studies ethnology, a division of anthropology that deals with culture of different peoples of the world

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Philistine(s) – a people who lived in Palestine in the 12th century BC

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Ptolemais – two ancient cities of the same name: one – in Upper Egypt, founded by Ptolemy I, and the other – in Libya, founded by Ptolemy III

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mausolea – pl. from mausoleum

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Puritans – followers of Puritanism, a religious movement of the 16th–17th centuries aimed at purifying the Church of England

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Pigafetta – Antonio Pigafetta, the Italian chronicler of the Magellan expedition in 1519–1522; he was also the author of two small dictionaries of Austronesian family of languages

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De Bry – Flemish engravers of German origin of the 16th century

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Anziques – Kingdom of Anziku, a historic African state on the Congo River

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Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831) – an American journalist and printer

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the Orkney (islands) – a group of more than 70 islands in northern Scotland

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the Shetland Islands – a group of about 100 islands in the north of Scotland

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à la Mode = in the latest fashion ( French )

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Titania – in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a fictional character, the queen of fairies who opposes her husband

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mes amis = my friends (French )

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Cassius – 1) an active participant of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar in 44 BC; 2) a fictional character in ‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare.

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Drury Lane – a London theatre famous for its musicals, founded in 1663 and officially known as the Theatre Royal

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