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Ulysses (the Latin form of the Greek Odysseus) was the name of a Greek hero, king of the Isle of Ithaca...
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This Encyclopedia is made up of information from the late 1800s. when the British Empire was at its height, before airplane travel, before automobiles were common and before the western world had been battered by two world wars.