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(Encyclopedia)Old Hundredth: see doxology.Old Ironsides
(Encyclopedia)Old Ironsides: see Constitution, ship. ...Old Lyme
(Encyclopedia)Old Lyme līm [key], residential and resort town (1990 pop. 6,535), New London co., SE Conn., on Long Island Sound, at the mouth of the Connecticut River; settled c.1655, inc. 1855. Its noteworthy old...Old Northwest
(Encyclopedia)Old Northwest: see Northwest Territory. ...Old Pretender
(Encyclopedia)Old Pretender: see Stuart, James Francis Edward. ...Old Sarum
(Encyclopedia)Old Sarum sârˈəm [key], site of a former city, Wiltshire, S England, just N of Salisbury (New Sarum). Excavations and scanning technologies have revealed remains of a British Iron Age fort, the Rom...Old Testament
(Encyclopedia)Old Testament, Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament). The designations “Old” and “New” seem to have been adopted af...Old Vic
(Encyclopedia)Old Vic, London repertory company and theater. The Old Vic theater opened in 1818 as the Coburg, and was renamed the Royal Victoria in 1833, soon familiarized to the Old Vic. In 1914 it became a Shake...old age
(Encyclopedia)old age: see geriatrics.Old Castile
(Encyclopedia)Old Castile, Spain: see Castile.Browse by Subject
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