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palmyra
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Population (2000): 7096 Housing Units (2000): 3363 Land area (2000): 1.860362 sq. miles (4.818316 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.860362 sq. miles (4.818316 sq. km) FIPS code: 57720 Located within: Pennsylvania ...
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Palmyra is a station on the River Line light rail system, located on East Broad Street between in Cinnaminson and Highland Avenues in Palmyra , New Jersey , though its official address is on East Broad Street. The station opened on March 15, 2004. Southbound ...
Wiktionary
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n. A palm, ''Borassus flabelliformis'', with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
WordNet
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n. tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving [syn: palmyra palm , toddy palm , wine palm , lontar , longar palm , Borassus flabellifer ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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lontar \lontar\ n. A tall fan palm ( Borassus flabellifer ) of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; the palmyra ; -- its leaves are used for thatching and weaving. Syn: palmyra, palmyra ...
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Palmyra, where the Arab merchant, Meles Agrippa, entertained us for three weeks in the lap of splendid and barbaric luxury.
In Palmyra, Meles Agrippa had arranged some parties for us in the desert, but we had not gone far enough to see lions.
Aurelian had no sooner secured the person and provinces of Tetricus, than he turned his arms against Zenobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East.
The culmination of all this was the battle of Cumorah, fought many centuries ago near the present site of Palmyra, between the Lamanites and the Nephites--the former being the heathen and the latter the Christians of this continent.
Palmyra, where the Arab merchant, Meles Agrippa, entertained us for three weeks in the lap of splendid and barbaric luxury.
In Palmyra, Meles Agrippa had arranged some parties for us in the desert, but we had not gone far enough to see lions.
We are about to approach those ancient Religions which once ruled the minds of men, and whose ruins encumber the plains of the great Past, as the broken columns of Palmyra and Tadmor lie bleaching on the sands of the desert.
Babylon and the shops of Thebes--in Tyre, in Sidon, in Gades, in Palmyra, in Nineveh.
In the first act she is Zoe--a Christian girl who has wandered across the desert from Damascus to try to Christianise the Zeus-worshipping pagans of Palmyra.
The present citizens of Palmyra, consisting of thirty or forty families, have erected their mud cottages within the spacious court of a magnificent temple.
She mounted the fleetest of her dromedaries, ^72 and had already reached the banks of the Euphrates, about sixty miles from Palmyra, when she was overtaken by the pursuit of Aurelian's light horse, seized, and brought back a captive to the feet of the emperor.
Palmyra insensibly increased into an opulent and independent city, and connecting the Roman and the Parthian monarchies by the mutual benefits of commerce, was suffered to observe an humble neutrality, till at length, after the victories of Trajan, the little republic sunk into the bosom of Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony.