The George Junior Republic
George Junior Republic, The, An American Colony Of Boys And Girls Located At Freeville, N.y. It Was Founded In 1895 By W. R. George Who Conceived The Idea That Youth In Their Teens Have Sufficient Brain Power And Physical Strength To Assume Responsibilities Of Self-government And Self-support, And Contended That ...
The German Empire
The German Empire The New German Empire Had A Territory Of 541,000 Square Kilo Metres, And Its Population, Including That Of The Newly Acquired Districts, Was 41,000,00o. The Population Had Been Increasing Steadily And Rapidly Ever Since 1815, When It Was 25,000,00o. By 190o It Had Reached 56,000,000, And At ...
The German Glasses
The German Glasses Germany.—germany Is Undoubtedly The European Country In Which The Art Of Glass-making Has Received Its Widest Applica Tion, And In Which The Decoration Employed Has Covered The Most Varied And Artistic Range. From The Rhine, Where Ancient Roman Traditions Were Never Wholly Extinguished, Glass-making Spread Quickly Eastward ...
The German Republic
The German Republic The National Assembly Met At Weimar On Feb. 6, 1919, And Elected Friedrich Ebert As President Of The Republic. He Was To Govern Through A Ministry Responsible To The Assembly. The Dis Cussion Of The Constitution Occupied Several Months. It Was Finally Promulgated On Aug. 11. The ...
The German Tribes
The German Tribes Of The Gaulish Tribes West Of The Rhine, The Most Important Was The Treveri, Inhabiting The Basin Of The Moselle, From Whom The City Of Trier (treves) Derives Its Name. The Rauraci Occupied The South Of Alsace. To The South Of The Treveri Lay The Medio Matrici, ...
The Girls Friendly Society
Girls' Friendly Society, The, A Girls' Club Of A Religious Nature, Providing For Mental And Industrial Training And Recreation As Well. The Society Started In England In 1875 With A Small Group Of Girls And Spread Rapidly. The Movement Spread To The United States In 1886, When A Central Council ...
The Growth Of Prussia
The Growth Of Prussia After The Restoration Of Peace The German Governments En Deavoured To Restore Absolutism As Far As Possible And To Efface The Effects Of The French Revolution : In This Austria Took The Lead. Prince Metternich Who, As Chancellor, Was The Leader Of Austria, Was The Real ...
The Mid German Hills
The Mid-german Hills (5) The Mid-german Hills Are Mainly Dissected Plateaux Of Palaeozoic Rocks The History Of Which Includes Their Folding Into A Mountain System In The Permo-carboniferous Phase, Their Planing Down By Long Denudation And Their Uplifting As Blocks In Tertiary Times. In The Western Half The Palaeozoic Rocks ...
The Middle High German
The Middle High German Period (1050-1350) The Beginnings Of Middle High German Literature Were Slow And Tentative After The Set-back Of The 1lth Century. The Church Had No Helping Hand To Offer, As In The More Liberal Epoch Of The Great Charles; For, At The Middle Of The Iith Century, ...
The Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century Exploration.—the Progress Of Geographical Discovery By Ploration And By Research Entered On A New Phase With The Teenth Century. Instruments For Fixing Position Had Been Perfected, The Sextant Was Handier And More Accurate Than The Old Quadrant, The Chronometer, First Used On Cook's Second Voyage, Made Good ...
The Old High German
The Old High German Period (c. 750-1050) There Are No Records Which Can Justify Us In Inferring That The Continental Germanic Tribes Possessed A Written Literature Be Fore The Age Of Charlemagne. But The Sagas Out Of Which The German National Epics Of A Later Date Were Welded Originated In ...
The Principles Of Geography
The Principles Of Geography Any Part Of Geography May Serve As A Starting Point From Which By A Series Of Approximations The Whole Field Of The Science May Be Surveyed. The Best Line Of Approach For An Advanced Student Leads From Simple Fundamental Facts Step By Step To The Most ...
The Renaissance
The Renaissance (1600-1740) The 17th Century In Germany Presents A Complete Contrast To Its Predecessor; The Fact That It Was The Century Of The Thirty Years' War, Which Devastated The Country, Crippled The Prosperity Of The Towns, And Threw Back By Many Generations The Social De Velopment Of The People, ...
The Revolutionary And Napoleonic
The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Periods After The Outbreak Of The French Revolution, The Ideas Of Liberty, Equality And Fraternity Also Became Popular Among The Educated Classes In Germany. In Germany The Proceedings Of The First National Assembly Were Regarded As An Attempt To Put Into Practice In Political Life The ...
The Search For The
The Search For The South Land A Belief In A Southern Continent Surrounding The Pole And Extending Into Temperate And Tropical Latitudes Had Found Ex Pression In The Maps Of European Cartographers Since The Time Of Magellan Whose Tierra Del Fuego Was Held To Be Part Of It. Many Explorers ...
The Subject Matter Of
The Subject Matter Of Geography Classification And Content Of Geography.—so Complex A Science Demands The Labour Of Many Specialists In Order To Advance It By The Separate Study Of Its Interdependent Parts. There Is A Geographical Aspect Of All The Sciences Which Are Concerned With The Earth And Its Phenomena ...
The Transition Period
The Transition Period (1350-1600) To The End Of The 15th Century.—by The Middle Of The 14th Century, Knighthood Was Rapidly Declining, And The Conditions Under Which Mediaeval Poetry Had Flourished Were Passing. But The Stories Of Chivalry Still Appealed As Stories To The People, Although The Old Way Of Telling ...
The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century Up To 1914 Travel As Developed In The Nineteenth Century Had Enabled Explorers To Reach The Poles And Cross Every Great Blank In The Map Of The Continents. Tentative Experiments Had Been Made With Newer Methods Of Transport And Investigation But It Was Only When The War ...
The Variation Of Latitude
The Variation Of Latitude The Deflections Of The Vertical In The Meridian Depend On Both The Astronomical Latitude And The Geodetic Latitude. The Latter, As Has Been Noted, Involves A Certain Convention, That Is, The Assumed Geodetic Datum, And Moreover Depends Upon Surveying Operations To Connect The Initial Point Of ...
The World War
The World War June 28–august 4.—on June 28, 1914, Francis Ferdinand, Heir To The Throne Of Austria, Was Assassinated At Serajevo. The Assassins Came From Belgrade And Had Received Money, Passports And Arms From Serbian Officials. Vienna Was Therefore Convinced That The Assassination Had Been Planned In Serbia With The ...
Theodor Goldstucker
Goldstucker, Theodor (182r-1872), German Sanskrit Scholar, Was Born Of Jewish Parents At Konigsberg On Jan. 18, 1821. From 1847 To 185o He Resided At Berlin, But His Advanced Political Views Caused The Authorities To Regard Him With Suspicion. In The Latter Year He Removed To London, In 1852 He Became ...
Theodor Gomperz
Gomperz, Theodor (1832-1912), German Philosopher And Classical Scholar, Was Born At Briinn On March 29, 1832. He Studied At Brunn And At Vienna Under Herman Bonitz. He Became Professor Of Classical Philology In 1873. In 1882 He Was Elected A Member Of The Academy Of Science. He Received The D. ...
Theodorus Gaza
Gaza, Theodorus (c. 1400-1475), One Of The Greek Scholars Who Were The Leaders Of The Revival Of Learning In The Century, Was Born At Thessalonica. On The Capture Of His City By The Turks In 1430 He Fled To Italy. During Three Years Spent In Mantua He Learned Latin From ...
Theophile Gautier
Gautier, Theophile (1811-18 7 2 ), French Poet And Miscellaneous Writer, Was Born At Tarbes On The 31st Of August 181 I . He Was Educated At The Grammar School Of That Town, And Afterwards At The College Charlemagne In Paris, But Was Almost As Much In The Studios. He ...
Thirty Years War
Thirty Years' War. ...
Thomas Gillespie
Gillespie, Thomas (1708-74), Scottish Divine, Was Born At Clearburn, Duddingston, Midlothian, In 1708. He Received Ordination At Northampton In January 1741. In September Of The Same Year He Was Admitted Minister Of The Parish Of Carnock, Fife, The Presbytery Of Dunfermline Admitting As Valid The Ordina Tion He Had Received ...
Thomas Girtin
Girtin, Thomas (1775-1802), English Painter And Etcher, Born On Feb. 18, 1775. He Was Apprenticed To Edward Dayes, The Mezzotint Engraver, And Soon Made J. M. W. Turner's Acquaintance. His Architectural And Topographical Sketches And Drawings Soon Established His Reputation, His Use Of Water-colour For Landscapes Being Such As To ...
Thomas Goldwell
Goldwell, Thomas (d. 1585), English Ecclesiastic, Began His Career As Vicar Of Cheriton In 1531. As Chaplain To Cardinal Pole He Lived At Rome, Was Attainted In 1539, But Re Turned To England On Mary's Accession, And In 1555 Became Bishop Of St. Asaph. On The Death Of Mary, Goldwell ...
Thomas Milner Gibson
Gibson, Thomas Milner (1806-84), English Poli Tician, Was Born In Trinidad, Where His Father, An Officer In The Army, Was Serving. As One Of Cobden's Chief Allies, He Was Elected For Manchester In 1841, And From 1846 To 1848 He Was Vice-president Of The Board Of Trade In Lord John ...
Thomas Of Woodstock Gloucester
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Tion
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Tiste
Tiste (known As "le Pere Girard" Or "le Pere Gregoire") (1765-1850), French-swiss Edu Cationalist Was Born At Fribourg And Educated For The Priesthood At Lucerne. In 1804 He Began His Career As A Public Teacher, First In The Elementary School At Fribourg (1805-23), Then (being Driven Away By Jesuit Hostility) ...
Ugolino Della Gherardesca
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Ultraviolet Ray Transmitting Glass
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Vale Of Glendalough
Glendalough, Vale Of, 8 M. N.n.w. Of Rath Drum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Noted For Its Ecclesiastical Ruins. Here, Early In The 6th Century, Kevin Lived As A Hermit For Four Years And Later Founded A Monastery Which, Despite Many Danish Raids, Remained For Some Centuries An Important Ecclesiastical And Educational ...
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin
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Vasily Vasilevich Golitsyn
Golitsyn, Vasily Vasilevich (1643-1714), Russian Statesman, Spent His Early Days At The Court Of Tsar Alexius Where He Gradually Rose To The Rank Of Boyar. In 1676 He Was Sent To The Ukraine To Keep In Order The Crimean Tatars And Took Part In The Chigirin Campaign. The Revolution Of ...
Vicente Antonio Garcia De
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Vincent Van Gogh
Gogh, Vincent Van (1853-189o), Dutch Painter Of The Post-impressionist Movement. He Was Born On March 3, 1853, At In Brabant, Holland, Where His Father Was Calvinist Pastor. At The Age Of 16 He Worked In The Firm Of His Uncle, A Picture Dealer At The Hague, And Was Later Employed ...
Vincenzo Gioberti
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
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Walter Gay
Gay, Walter (1856-1937), American Artist, Was Born At Hingham (mass.), On Jan. 22, 1856. In 1876 He Became A Pupil Of Leon Bonnat In Paris. He Received An Honourable Mention In The Salon Of 1885; A Gold Medal In 1888, And Similar Awards At Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896), ...
Walter Giffard
Giffard, Walter (d. 1279), Chancellor Of England And Archbishop Of York, Was A Son Of Hugh Giffard Of Boyton, Wilt Shire, And After Serving As Canon And Archdeacon Of Wells, Was Chosen Bishop Of Bath And Wells In May 1264. In August 1265 Henry Iii. Appointed Him Chancellor Of England, ...
Wars Of The Germans
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Wilhelm Geiger
Geiger, Wilhelm (1856— ), German Scholar, Was Born In Nuremberg On July 21, 1856. He Became Professor At Erlangen In 1891, And Was Professor Of Indian And Iranian Phi Lology At Munich From 1920 To 1924. He Edited The Zeitschrift Fur Buddhismus And Prepared, With E. Kuhn, Grundriss Der Iran ...
Wilhelm Von Giesebrecht
Giesebrecht, Wilhelm Von German Historian, Born In Berlin On March 5, 1814, Studied Under Leopold Von Ranke, And His First Important Work, Geschichte Ottos Ii., Was Contributed To Ranke's Jahrbiicher Des Deutschen Reichs Unter Dem Sachsischen Hause (183 7-40) . His Geschichte Der Deutschen Kaiserzeit (6 Vols. 1855-95), The Work ...
William Ewart Gladstone
Gladstone, William Ewart Brit Ish Statesman, Was Born In Liverpool On Dec. 29, 1809. The Gledstanes Were An Ancient Border Stock Who Held Lands In The Douglas Country. William Gledstanes, Of The Branch From Whom Gladstone Descended, Was Laird Of Arthurshiel In Lanarkshire In 1551 But The Lands Were Lost ...
William Ged
Ged, William The Inventor Of Stereotyping, Was Born At Edinburgh. In 1725 He Patented His Invention, De Veloped From The Simple Process Of Soldering Together Loose Types Of Van Der Mey. Ged, Although He Succeeded In Obtaining A Cast In Similar Metal, Of A Type Page, Could Not Persuade Edin ...
William Giffard
Giffard, William (d. I129), Bishop Of Winchester, Was Chancellor Of William Ii. And Received His See, In Succession To Bishop Walkelin, From Henry I. (1ioo). He Was One Of The Bishops Elect Whom Anselm Refused To Consecrate (i I O 1) As Having Been Nominated And Invested By The Lay ...
William Gifford
Gifford, William (1756-1826), English Publicist And Man Of Letters, Was Born At Ashburton, Devon, In April 1756, The Son Of A Glazier. Before He Was 13 William Had Lost Both Parents, And After Being Sent To Sea And Then Apprenticed To A Shoemaker, He Was Able To Return To School ...
William Godwin
Godwin, William English Political And Miscellaneous Writer, Son Of A Nonconformist Minister, Was Born On March 3, 1756, At Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Both Parents Were Strict Calvinists. William Godwin Was Educated For His Father's Profession At Hoxton Academy, Where He Was Under Andrew Kippis The Biographer And Dr. Abraham Rees Of ...
William Hamilton Gibson
Gibson, William Hamilton Ameri Can Illustrator, Author And Naturalist, Was Born In Sandy Hook (conn.), On Oct. 5, 185o. The Failure And (in 1868) Death Of His Father, A New York Broker, Put An End To His Studies In The Brook Lyn Polytechnic Institute And Made It Necessary For Him ...
William Hooker Gillette
Gillette, William Hooker, Ameri Can Playwright And Actor, Was Born In Hartford, Conn., On July 24, 1855, The Son Of Former United States Senator Francis G. Gil Lette And Of Elizabeth Daggett (hooker) Gillette, A Descendant Of One Of The Town's Founders. As A Boy He Displayed Histrionic Talent, Planning ...
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison, William Lloyd The American Anti-slavery Leader, Was Born In Newburyport (mass.), On Dec. 1o, I8o5. His Parents Were From The British Province Of New Brunswick. The Father, Abijah, A Sea Captain, Drank Heavily And Deserted His Home When William Was A Child, And It Is Not Known Whether He ...