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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 76 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 42 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 28 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 16 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 14 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 4 0 Browse Search
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of 20 days each, and had a leap-year. Their year commenced at the vernal equinox. The Peruvian year began with the winter solstice. Calendar-clock. The Jewish civil year is 12 lunar months = 355 days. Their ecclesiastical year begins at the vernal equinox, about March 22. The civil year 5634 A. M. begins September 23, oney mentioned by Ezra was probably the Persian daric e, Fig. 1382, equal to about $5.50. Cyrus paid the soldiers of Clearchus a daric a month. (Xenophon.) The Jewish silver shekel had a weight of about half an ounce, and value about 62 cents of our money. To form an idea of the economic value of money, do not forget to consident nationalities, were current in Palestine. Barkabab, who raised a politico-religious crusade against the Romans in the time of Hadrian, closed the series of Jewish coins (o p), for after this Jerusalem, as a Jewish city, disappears altogether, and under the name of Aelia, A. D. 135, became a Roman colony from which Jews were