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Arcadia

Central plateau and department of southern Greece; area 4,419 sq km/1,706 sq mi; population (1991) 103,800. Tripolis is the capital town.

Arcadia

Town in Los Angeles County, southwest California, USA; population (2000) 53,100. It is situated 26 km/16 mi northeast of Los Angeles, at the south foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the east of Pasadena. The town grew up in the 1880s around the Santa Anita Ranch; the Santa Anita Racetrack, one of the best-known US horse racing facilities, opened in 1934 on the ranch's site. Also in Arcadia is the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum. While mainly residential, the town has a variety of high-tech manufacturing facilities.



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To attract the more adventurous readers, Arcadie included an insert containing mildly erotic photographs and personal advertisements by men seeking to meet other men.
The more we learn, the more there is to know by Bullough, Vern L. / The Journal of Sex Research
The Apache is inertially guided, and carries a new family of Matra submunitions: the general-purpose Mimosa, the anti-tank Arcadie, and the runway-piercing Samanta.
Air-to-ground weapons systems: from sight to seeker; a reader's guide ... by Braybrook, Roy / Armada International
3) D'Urfe's debt to earlier pastoral sources - Tasso's Aminta, Guarini's Il Pastor fido, and more particularly Sannazar's Arcadie, Montemayor's Diana and Cervantes's La Galatea - extends not only to thematic issues, but also to the Neoplatonism to which we shall shortly turn; the thematic exploitation of transvestism does not end with d'Urfe as it goes on to inspire
Silvandre's Symposium: The Platonic and the Ambiguous in L'Astree by Gregorio, Laurence A. / Renaissance Quarterly
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