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  • The singular honor of the 1st British Fanzine goes to "Novae Terrae" founded in 1936.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • The singular honor of the 1st British Fanzine goes to "Novae Terrae" founded in 1936.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: 1937 Novae Terrae Chris Perridas 2008

  • Amelio organized the historic "Terrae Motus" (Earth Trembles) contemporary art exhibition after the 1980 earthquake in Campania region killed 3,000 and left thousands homeless.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2007

  • The head of this province, and till 1847 the supreme authority for Catholics in Palestine, is the Franciscan provincial who bears the title "Custos Terrae Sanctae".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The young men themselves were probably unaware that they were the representatives of the "Filius Terrae."

    Robert Browning 1905

  • Terrae omni parentis alumnos, its own thirsty soul continually refreshed from springs whose sparkle we could not see, though the gurgle and ripple of their march sung out from so many hiding-places that we seemed to be

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

  • Terrae of course goes with fastidiosus, not with dominus.

    The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847

  • Stirpium Plantarum utriusque Orbis_ has appeared, being but a large fragment of my _Flora universalis Terrae_, and a companion to my _Systema

    Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809

  • He was referred to in Amhurst's "Terrae Filius" as "a reverend poetical gentleman;" he knew Pope, and had credit enough for his verse to hold the office of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1718 to 1728.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

  • I saw his lady, of whom the 'Terrae Filius' of Oxford was once so merry;

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

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