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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIERRE (Flemish, Lier)

LIERRE (Flemish, Lier) , a

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TOWN

town in the

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Belgium; 9 M . S.E. of Antwerp . Pop . (1904) 24,229 . It carries on a brisk

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INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

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SILK

silk fabrics . Its

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church of St Gommaire was finished in 1557 and contains three

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FINE

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glass windows, the

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GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of the

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ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

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Maximilian, to celebrate his

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Mary of

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