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L CLOGHER COBHAM CLOISTER COBIJA CLONAKILTY COBLE CLONES COBLENZ CLONMACNOISE COBOURG CLONMEL COBRA CLOOTS, DE GRACE COBURG CLOQUET COCA CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY COCAINE CLOSE COCANADA CLOSURE COCCEIUS CLOT, ANTOINE BARTHELEMY COCCIDIA CLOTAIRE COCCULUS INDICUS CLOTH COCHABAMBA (department of Bolivia) CLOTHIER COCHABAMBA (city of Bolivia) CLOTILDA, SAINT COCHEM CLOUD COCHERY, LOUIS ADOLPHE CLOUDBERRY COCHIN, DENYS MARIE AUGUSTIN CLOUD-BURST COCHIN (state of India) CLOUDED LEOPARD COCHIN (town of India) CLOUET, FRANCOIS COCHIN-CHINA CLOUET, JEAN COCHINEAL CLOUGH, ANNE JEMIMA COCHLAEUS, JOHANN CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH COCK, EDWARD CLOUTING COCKADE CLERVAUX (_clara vallis_), a town in the northern province of Oesling, grand-duchy of Luxemburg, on the Clerf, a tributary of the Sure. Pop. (1905) 866. In old days it was the fief of the de Lannoy family, and the present proprietor is the bearer of a name not less well known in Belgian history, the count de Berlaymont. The old castle of the de Lannoys exists, and might easily be restored, but its condition is now neglected and dilapidated. In 1798 the people of Clervaux specially distinguished themselves against the French in an attempt to resist the institution of the conscription. The survivors of what was called the Kloppel-krieg (the "cudgel war") were shot, and a fine monument commemorates the heroism of the men of Clervaux. CLETUS, formerly regarded as the name of one of the early successors of St Peter in the see of Rome, or, according to Epiphanius and Rufinus, as sharing the direction of the Roman Church with Linus during Peter's lifetime. He has been identified beyond doubt with Anencletus (q.v.). See Pere Colombier, in _Rev. des questions hist._ Ap. 1st, 1876, p. 413. CLEVEDON, a watering-place in the northern parl
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