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Beatrice

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Beatrice

City and administrative headquarters of Gage County in southeastern Nebraska, 59 km/37 mi south of Lincoln, on the Big Blue River; population (2000) 12,500. It trades and ships grain and dairy products and manufactures farm machinery, irrigation equipment, and hardware.

Beatrice was established as an Oregon Trail stop in 1857. The Homestead National Monument to the west of the city is the site of the first American land-claim homestead (1862).



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As Beatrice came down the garden path, it was observable that she handled and inhaled the odor of several of the plants which her father had most sedulously avoided.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
And it was addressed to HER -- not to Laura or Beatrice or the Maid of Athens, but to her, Anne Shirley.
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[*] Duke Lodovico was Lodovico Moro, a son of Francesco Sforza, who married Beatrice d'Este.
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