Aaron Burr
Burr, Aaron, An American States Man, And Third Vice-president Of The United States, Born In Newark, N. J., Feb. 5, 1756. His Father Was The Presi Dent Of Princeton College. He Entered Princeton College At The Age Of 12 And Graduated At 16. While In His 20th Year, Before He ...
Antonio Canova
Canova, Antonio (ka-no'va), An Italian Sculptor, Born In Possagno, Nov. 1, 1757. He Was First An Apprentice To A Statuary In Bassano, From Whom He Went To The Academy Of Venice, Where He Had A Brilliant Career. In 1779 He Was Sent By The Senate Of Venice To Rome, And ...
Benjamin Franklin Butler
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, An American Lawyer And Soldier, Born In Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 5, 1818; Studied Law, And Was Admitted To The Bar In 1841, And Became Distinguished As A Criminal Lawyer And Politician. He Was A Member Of The State Legislature In 1853, Of The State Senate In ...
Bernhard Bulow
Bulow, Bernhard, Prince Von, German Statesman; Born At Klein Flottbeck, Holstein, In 1849. He Was Ed Ucated At Lausanne, Leipsic, And Berlin; Studied Law, And Took Part In The Franco-prussian War, Rising To The Rank Of Lieutenant, After Which He Entered The Diplomatic Service. He Was Successively Secretary Of Legation ...
Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse, The Name Given To A Fixed Star Of The Orion Constellation, Also Known As The Alpha Orionis, Whose Diam Eter, According To Measurements Made By Professor Albert A. Michelson, Of Chi Cago University, Is Slightly More Than Three Hundred Times That Of The Sun, And Nearly As Large As ...
Bethlehem
Bethlehem ("house Of Bread"; Modern Beitlahm), The Birthplace Of Jesus Christ And Of King David, And The Ephratah Of The History Of Jacob, Is Now A Small, Unwalled Village Of White Stone Houses. The Population, About 8,000, Is Wholly Christian—latin, Greek, And Ar Menian. The Convent Of The Nativity, A ...
Bezique
Bezique (bezzele), Or Besique, A Popular Game Of Cards Of French Origin In Which A Double Pack Containing The Aces, Tens, Kings, Queens, Knaves, Nines, Eights, And Sevens Are Used, Valued In The Order Given. The Game Is Played By Two Persons, To Whom Eight Cards Are Dealt. Trumps May ...
Bible
Bible, The Book, In Comparison With Which Other Literary Productions Are Not Worthy To Be Dignified With The Name Of Books; Or, If They Be Called Books, It Then Becomes The Book Of Books. The Idea Just Expressed Is Founded On The Etymology Derived Originally From The Christian Greeks, But ...
Bible Society
Bible Society, Any Society Con Stituted For Multiplying Copies Of The Bible, And, As Far As The Financial Re Sources At Its Disposal Will Permit, Dif Fusing Them Abroad. Of These Societies The Following May Be Enumerated: 1. American Bible Society: The American Bible Society Was Founded In 1816. Sixty ...
Biblical Criticism
Biblical Criticism, The Science Which Has For Its Objects (1) To Decide Which Books Are Entitled To Have A Place In The Scripture Canon, And (2) To Bring The Text Of These Canonical Books To The Utmost Possible Degree Of Purity. In Prosecuting The First Of These Aims, The Biblical ...
Bicycle
Bicycle, A Two-wheeled Instrument Driven By Pedal Cranks On Either Side And Propelled By The Rider, Who Sits Astride Upon A Seat, Or Saddle, Which Is Mounted On A Frame In Which The Wheels Are Set. A Handle Bar In Front Is Used To Guide The Forward Wheel, Which Acts ...
Bill
Bill, A Written Or Printed Paper Con Taining A Statement Of Any Particulars. In Common Use A Tradesman's Account, Or A Printed Proclamation Or Advertise Ment, Is Thus Called A Bill. In Legisla Tion A Bill Is A Draft Of A Proposed Statute Submitted To A Legislative Assem Bly For ...
Billiards
Billiards, A Word Probably De Rived From Old French Billiard, "a Stick With A Curved End"; In English, Intro Duced As The Name Of A Game, And Made Plural. The Origin Of Billiards Is Uncer Tain. It Was Brought Into Fashion By Louis Xiv. (middle Of 17th Century), Whose Physicians ...
Bimetallism
Bimetallism, A Term Invented By Henry Cernuschi And Currently Used To Denote A Double Monetary Standard Of Value. The Idea Was First Promulgated By Schneidt In 1766 And Nearly 100 Years Later By Schubler, J. Oppenheim And Ph. Geyer. Bimetallists Assert That The Ex Ceedingly Unsatisfactory Condition Of The Productive ...
Biography
Biography, That Department Of Lit Erature Which Treats Of The Individual Lives Of Men Or Women; And Also, A Prose Narrative Detailing The History And Un Folding The Character Of An Individual Written By Another. When Written By The Individual Whose History Is Told It Is Called An Autobiography. Though ...
Biology
Biology. The Biological Sciences Are Those Which Deal With The Phenomena Of Living Things. They Cover An Enor Mous Field Of Scientific Activity And As A Whole Are Pretty Clearly Separated From The Abiological Sciences. Interest In Bi Ology Leading To Greater Knowledge Has Vastly Increased In The Last Fifty ...
Bird
Bird, The English Designation Of The Eves, The Second Class Of The Sub-king Dom Vertebrata, Standing Between The Mammalia (mammals) Above, And The Reptilia (reptiles) Below. While In Their Warm Blood They Are More Closely Akin To The Former Than To The Latter, They Approach The Latter Rather Than The ...
Birmingham
Birmingham, City And Of Jefferson Co., Ala.; At The Junction Of Several Trunk Railroads; 96 Miles N. W. Of Montgomery, The State Capital. It Is At The Foot Of Red Mountain, Which, Be Sides Its Vast Limestone Deposits, Contains A Remarkably Large And Accessible Vein Of Hematite Iron Ore; And ...
Birmingham_2
Birmingham, A City Of England, On The Rea River Near Its Confluence With The Tame, In The N. W. Of Warwickshire, With Suburbs Extending Into Stafford Shire And Worcestershire; 112 Miles N. W. Of London, And 97 S. E. Of Liverpool. It Is The Principal Seat Of The Hardware Manufacture ...
Bishop
Bishop, An Ecclesiastical Functionary In The Apostolical Churches. The Term Presbyteros Was Borrowed From The Syn Agogue; Etymologically It Implied That, As A Rule, The Person So Designated Was Pretty Well Advanced In Life, While Epis Kopos, Borrowed From The Polity Of The Grecian States, Pointed To The Duty In ...
Bismarck Schonhausen
Bismarck-schonhausen (biz Mark-shen'-houz-en), Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince Von, A German Statesman, Born At Schonhausen, Prussian Saxony, April 1, 1815. He Received His University Education At Gottingen, Ber Lin, And Greifswald. Before 1847 He Was Little Heard Of, But Began To Attract At Tention In The New Prussian Parliament As An ...
Bison
Bison, The Name Given To Two Species Of Ruminating Animals Belonging To The Ox Family; (1) The Aurochs; (2) An Analogous Species, Now Nearly Extinct, But Once In Countless Herds Roaming Over The N. W. Plains Of The United States. Bisons Have Proportionately A Larger Head Than Oxen, With A ...
Blast Furnace
Blast Furnace, A Structure Built Of Refractory Material In Which Metallic Ores Are Smelted In Contact With Fuel And Flux, The Combustion Of The Fuel Being Ac Celerated By Air Under Pressure. The Materials Are Fed In At The Top Of The Furnace, And After The Ores Are Reduced, The ...
Blockade
Blockade. To Blockade A Port Is To Close The Port To The Entrance And Exit Of All Traffic By Sea. The Right To Es Tablish A Blockade Exists Only In Time Of War And May Be Exercised Only By A Belligerent (q. V.) And Only Against The Ports Of The ...
Blood
Blood, The Red Circulating Fluid In The Bodies Of Man And The Higher Animals. It Is Formed From Chyle And Lymph When These Substances Are Subjected To The Action Of Oxygen Taken Into The Lungs By The Process Of Inspiration. It Is The General Material From Which All The Secretions ...
Blowing Machine
Blowing Machine, An Apparatus For Producing An Air Blast For Metallur Gical Purposes. The Earliest Blowing Ma Chine Was, Doubtless, Some Form Of The Common Bellows. Blowing Engines.—for Blast Furnaces And For Bessemer Steel Converters, Blow Ing Engines Of Large Size Are Employed. In The Former, The Strength Of The ...
Blowpipe
Blowpipe, A Small Instrument Used In The Arts For Glass Blowing And Solder Ing Metals, And In Analytical Chemistry And Mineralogy, For Determining The Na Ture Of Substances By The Action Of An Intense And Continuous Heat. Its Utility Depends On The Fact, That When A Jet Of Air Or ...
Blue Sky Laws
Blue Sky Laws, Regulations By Which Various States Of The Union Have Attempted To Protect Their Citizens Against Investment In Fraudulent Or Worthless Se Curities. Kansas Was The Pioneer In The Movement, And Many Other States Quick Ly Followed Her Example. California, In 1917, Required That Every Person Or Com ...
Boblink Bob O Link
Bob-o-link, Boblink, Reed Bird, Or Rice Bird (dolichonyx Oryzivorus Or Icterus Acripennis), A Common American Bird Found From Par Aguay To Canada, The Only One Of Its Kind, And That Difficult To Classify. Some Place It Near The Baltimore Bird (icte Rus), Others Near Starlings, But Both The Characteristics And ...
Boer War
Boer War, The War Waged By Great Britain From October, 1899, To May, 1902, Against The Two South African Republics, Transvaal And Orange Free State. The Opening Of 1902 Saw An Attempt On The Part Of The Boers To Negotiate Terms Of Peace; But The British Government Still Refused To ...
Bogota
Bogota, Under Spanish Rule Santa Fe De Bogota, In South America, The Fed Eral Capital Of The United States Of Co Lombia. It Is Situated Within The Limits Of The Province Of Cundinamarca, On A Tableland Which, At An Elevation Of 8,694 Feet Above The Sea, Separates The Basin Of ...
Bohemia
Bohemia, A Former Kingdom Of Eu Rope, And, Until 1918 A Crownland And Titular Kingdom Of Austria; Now A Part Of The Republic Of Czecho-slovakia. It Is Bounded By Bavaria, Saxony, The Prus Sian Province Of Silesia, Moravia, And The Archduchy Of Austria; Area 20,223 Square Miles; Pop. About 7,000,000. ...
Boiler
Boiler, The Name Given To A Vessel In Which Steam Is Generated. In Its Sim Plest Form, It Consists Of A Close Vessel Made Of Metal Plate, Having Apertures For The Admission Of Water And Egress Of Steam, Fitted With Apparatus For Show Ing The Level Of The Water And ...
Boiling
Boiling, In General, The Change Of A Substance From The Liquid To The Gaseous State Which Takes Place Throughout The Liquid. The Boiling Point, In Science, Is The Point Of Degree Of The Thermometer At Which Any Liquid Boils. The Boiling Point Of Any Liquid Is Always The Same, If ...
Bolivia
Bolivia, A Republic Of South Ameri Ca; Bounded On The N. By Peru And Brazil; On The E. By Brazil; On The S. By Paraguay, The Argentine Republic And Chile; And On The W. By Peru And Chile; Area, 514,155 Square Miles; Pop. (est.), 2,889,970; Capital, Formerly Sucre; Changed To ...
Bologna
Bologna (bo-lon'ya), One Of The Oldest, Largest, And Richest Cities Of Italy, Capital Of The Province Of Same Name, In A Fertile Plain At The Foot Of The Apen Nines, Between The Rivers Reno And Sa Vena. It Is The See Of An Archbishop, And Has Extensive Manufactures Of Silk ...
Bolshevism
Bolshevism, A Political And Economic Theory That Has Received Practical Ap Plication In Russia And To A Limited Ex Tent In Other Countries. The Word Itself Is Russian And As Applied To A Party Means "those Who Want More Or Most," I. E., The Extremists Or Maximalists, Who Demand At ...
Book
Book, The General Name Applied To A Printed Volume. Printed Matter Occupies Both Sides Of A Certain Number Of Leaves Of Paper, Which Are So Arranged That, Ginning At The Upper End Of The Left Side Of The First Page, One May Proceed With Out Dislocation Of Thought Always From ...
Book Binding
Book Binding, The Art Of Stitching Or Otherwise Fastening Together And Cov Ering The Sheets Of Paper Or Similar Mate Rial Composing A Book. The Edge Of A Modern Book Constituted By The Margin Of The Paper Composing It Is Called The Binding Edge. When Books Were Literal Volumes, Or ...
Book Of Common Prayer
Book Of Common Prayer, The Book That Forms The Liturgy Of The Church Of England. It Is A Development From The "breviary Missal" And "man Ual" Compiled In The 11th Century By Osmund, Bishop Of Salisbury. A Revi Sion Of The "breviary" Was Made In 1516, By Order Of Cardinal ...
Book Of Mormon
Book Of Mormon, A Book Forming The Authoritative Scriptures Of The Mem Bers Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith, An American, Of Manchester, N. Y., Pro Fessed To Have Heard In 1823 The Angel Moroni Reveal To Him In Visions That The Bible Of The ...
Bookplate
Bookplate, An English Name For Labels Of Ownership Frequently Placed On The Inside Covers Of Books. The Use Of Bookplates Is Of Some Antiquity, And Mention Has Been Made Of One Dated In The Middle Of The 15th Century, But At Present The Fine Bookplates Of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer (1470-1530), Designed ...
Boots And Shoes
Boots And Shoes, Foot Coverings Of The Human Family; Exceedingly Varied In Form, And Not Less Diverse In The Material Out Of Which They Are Made. The Sandal Is The Most Ancient Foot Covering Of Which We Have Any Record, And Examples Of Very Ancient Manufac Ture, Taken From Egyptian ...
Bordeaux
Bordeaux (bor-del, A City And Port Of France, Capital Of The Department Of Gironde, On The Caronne River, About 70 Miles From The Sea. It Is Built In A Crescent Form Round A Bend Of The River, Which Is Here Lined With Fine Quays And Crossed By A Magnificent Stone ...
Borneo
Borneo, An Island, Next To Australia And Papua, The Largest In The World, Is Situated In The Indian Archipelago, In 7° 3' N.-4° 10' S. Lat., And 108° 53'— 119° 22' E. Long. It Is Bounded On The E. By The Sea Of Celebes And The Ma Cassar Strait, S. ...
Bosnia
Bosnia, A Province Of Jugoslavia, In The N. W. Of The Balkan Peninsula, W. Of Servia. Area Including Herzegovina And Novi-bazar, 23,570 Square Miles (of Which Bosnia Proper Occupies 16,000), Pop. About 1,900,000, Mostly Of Slavonian Origin, And Speaking The Serbian Lan Guage. They Are Partly Mohammedans, Partly Roman And ...
Boston
Boston, The Largest City Of New Eng Land, The Capital Of Massachusetts And The County-seat Of Suffolk Co. It Is Situ Ated At The Boston Harbor And At The Mouths Of The Mystic And Charles Rivers. It Is Also On The New York, New Haven And Hartford, And The Boston ...
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre, An Affray In That City, March 5, 1770, That Resulted From The Exasperated Feeling Between Residents Of The Town And The British Soldiers Quartered There. It Began On The 2d Of March, With The Exchange Of Insults And Blows Between A Group Of Workmen And Some Passing Soldiers. ...
Botany
Botany, The Natural History Of The Vegetable Kingdom, The Science That Treats Of Plants. It Forms, With Zoology, The Subject Of Biology In Its More Com Prehensive Sense. Plants Are Living Be Ings Which Derive Their Chief Sustenance On The One Hand From Water, Which, To Gether With Certain Dissolved ...
Bourbon
Bourbon (b5r-bon'), An Ancient French Family Which Has Given Three Dynasties To Europe, The Bourbons Of France, Spain, And Naples. The First Of The Line Known In History Is Adhe Mar, Who, At The Beginning Of The 10th Century, Was Lord Of The Bourbonnais (now The Department Of Allier). The ...
Bovidie
Bovidie, A Family Of Ruminating An Imals, Containing Not Merely The Oxen, But Many Other Animals Now Placed In I Other Families. It Was Subdivided Into Bovine, Cervina, Giraffina, Moschlna, And Cainelina; Also, A Family Of Ruminating Animals, Consisting Of Species With Simply Rounded Horns, Which Are Not Twisted In ...
Boxhara
Boxhara, A Khanate Of Central Asia, Formerly Vassal To Russia, Bounded N. By Russian Turkestan, W. By Khiva And The Transcaspian Territory Of Russia, S. By Afghanistan, And E. By Chinese Turkes Tan; Area About 93,000 Square Miles. The Country In The W. Is To A Great Extent Occupied By ...
Boy Scouts Of America
Boy Scouts Of America, An Or Ganization Designed To Help In The Pres Ervation Of The Health And Formation Of The Character Of Its Members. It Was In Corporated Feb. 8, 1910, And Chartered By Act Of Congress June 15, 1916. The Movement Is Intended To Furnish A Whole Some ...
Boycotting
Boycotting, A Practice Which Owes Its Name To Capt. C. C. Boycott (died June 21, 1897), Of Lough Mask House, In Mayo, Ireland, And Agent, In 1880, Of Lord Erne, An Irish Nobleman. The Former Gentleman Having Given Offense About Agrarian Matters To The People Among Whom He Lived, During ...
Brahma
Brahma, The Name Of The First Of The Three Gods Who Constitute The Trimurti, Or Triad Of Principal Hindu Deities. The Epithets Applied To This Divinity Are Very Numerous, Some Of The Most Usual Being Swayambhu, The Self-existing; Parameshti, Who Abides In The Most Exalted Place; Pitamah A, The Great ...
Brain
Brain, The Encephalon, Or Center Of The Nervous System And The Seat Of Con Sciousness And Volition In Man And The Higher Animals. It Is A Soft White And Gray Matter Contained In The Skull Of Vertebrated Animals. The Invertebrate Have, Instead Of A True Brain, Nervous Ganglia, Situated Near ...
Bread
Bread, The Flour Or Meal Of Grain Kneaded With Water Into A Tough And Consistent Paste And Baked. There Are Two Kinds Of Bread, Leavened And Un Leavened. Leavened, Or Fermented Bread, Is Prepared By Mixing Together Certain Quantities Of Flour, Warm Water, Salt And Yeast, Or Leaven. Leaven, Which ...
Bremen
Bremen (braimen), A City Of Ger Many, Formerly An Independent Member Of The Empire, One Of The Three Hanse Towns, On The Weser, About 50 Miles From Its Mouth, In Its Own Small Territory Of 99 Square Miles, Besides Which It Posses Ses The Port Of Bremerhaven, At The Mouth ...
Brennus
Brennus, The Name Of Two Individ Uals Known In History. (1) The First Was The Hero Of An Early Roman Legend, Which Relates To The Migration Of The Gauls Into Italy And Their March To Clusium And Rome. In The Account Given By Livy V. 33, Etc.), He Figures As ...
Bretagne
Bretagne (bre'tan) Or Brit Tany, One Of The Provinces Into Which France Was Divided. It Now Forms The Departments Of Finistere, Cotes-du-nord, Morbihan, And Loire-inferieure. In An Cient Times, Under The Name Of Armorica, It Was The Central Seat Of The Confeder Ated Armorican Tribes, Who Were Of Celtic And ...
Brewing
Brewing, The Process Of Extracting A Saccharine Solution From Malted Grain And Converting The Solution Into Fer Mented And Sound Alcoholic Beverage Called Ale Or Beer. The Manufacture Of Ale Or Beer Is Of Very High ,antiquity. The Chinese, Jap Anese, Ancient Egyptians And Assyrians All Drank Beer. All The ...
Brick
Brick, A Kind Of Artificial Stone, Made Of Clay, Molded. Dried In The Sun And Baked In A Kiln. The Word Is Also Applied To The Block In Its Previous Con Dition As A Molded Plastic Mass, And As A Dried Block In Which The Water Hygro Metrically Combined With ...
Bridge
Bridge, A Structure Consisting Of An Arch Or Series Of Arches Supporting A Roadway Above It, Designed To Unite Two Banks Of A River Or The Two Sides Of An Open Space. A Bridge Is Generally Made Of Wood, Iron, Stone, Steel, Or Of Brick. The Extreme Supports Of The ...
Bridgeport
Bridgeport, A Consolidated Town And City, And One Of The County-seats Of Fairfield Co., Conn.; On Long Island Sound, At The Mouth Of The Pequonnock River, And On The New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad; 18 Miles S. W. Of New Haven. The City Is Built On A Plain ...
Brigands
Brigands, A Name Originally Given To The Mercenaries Who Held Paris Dur Ing King John's Imprisonment (1358), And Who Made Themselves Notorious For Their Ill Behavior. It Was Applied By Froissart To A Kind Of Irregular Foot Soldiery, And From Them Was Trans Ferred To Simple Robbers; It Is Now ...
Brisbane
Brisbane, The Capital, A Seaport And Chief Seat Of Trade Of Queensland, Australia, Situated About 500 Miles N. Of Sydney, In Moreton District. It Stands About 25 Miles From The Mouth Of A River Of Its Own Name, Which Falls Into Moreton Bay, And It Is Divided Into The Four ...
Bristol
Bristol, A Cathedral City Of Eng Land, A Municipal And A Parliamentary Borough, Situated Partly In Gloucester Shire, Partly In Somersetshire, But Form Ing A County In Itself. It Stands At The Confluence Of The Rivers Avon And Frome, Which Unite Within The City, Whence The Combined Stream (the Avon) ...
British Columbia
British Columbia, A Province (including Vancouver Island) Of The Dominion Of Canada, Bounded On The N. By The 60th Parallel Of Lat.; E. By The Rocky Mountains; S. By The United States; And W. By Alaska, The Pacific Ocean, And Queen Charlotte's Sound; Area, 312,630 Square Miles; Pop. About 400,000; ...
British East Africa
British East Africa, Called Since July 5, 1920, Kenya Colony, A Terri Tory Of East Africa, Between The Former German East Africa And The Italian Protectorate Of Somaliland; Area, Over 1,000,000 Square Miles; Pop. Estimated At Between 2,000,000 And 3,000,000. The Coast Extends From Wanga, 4° 40' S. Lat., To ...
British Museum
British Museum, The Great Na Tional Museum In London Owes Its Foundation To Sir Hans Sloane, Who, In 1753, Bequeathed His Various Collections, Including 50,000 Books And Manuscripts, To The Nation, On The Condition Of £20, 000—less By £30,000 Than The Original Cost—being Paid To His Heirs. Montague House, Which ...
Bromine
Bromine, A Non-metallie Element. Symbol Br; Atomic Weight, 79.4. Bro Mine Was Discovered In 1826 By Balard, In The Salts Obtained By The Evaporation Of Sea Water. Bromine Is Liberated From The Sodium And Magnesium Salts By The Action Of Free Chlorine, And Is Separated By Ether, Which Dissolves The ...
Bronchitis
Bronchitis, Inflammation Of The Air Tubes Leading To The Pulmonary Vesicles, Accompanied By Hoarseness, Cough, In Crease Of Temperature, And Soreness Of The Chest Anteriorly. The Natural Mu Cous Secretion Is At First Arrested, But Increases Afterward, And Is Altered In Quality, Becoming More Corpuscular. Its Forms Are: (1) Acute ...
Brook Farm Association
Brook Farm Association, A Community Which Originated In 1841, With William Henry Channing, George Ripley, And Sophia, His Wife, With Whom Were United From Time To Time George William Curtis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, Charles Anderson Dana, John Sullivan Dwight, Margaret Fuller, And Other Personages Of A Philo Sophic Turn ...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, Former City, Since Jan. 1, 1898, One Of The Five Boroughs Of The City Of Greater New York; Situated On The W. Extremity Of Long Island, On New York Bay And The East River, Which Separates It From New York And Con Nects Long Island Sound With New York ...
Bruges
Bruges, A City Of Belgium, Capital Of West Flanders, At The Junction Of The Canals From Ghent, Ostend, And L'ecluse, 7 Miles From The North Sea, And 60 Miles N. W. Of Brussels; Lat. 51° 12' 30" N., Long. 3° 13' 44" E. The City Has A Cir Cumference Of ...
Brussels
Brussels (french Bruxelles), The Capital Of Belgium; On The River Senne, Communicates With Antwerp And The North Sea By Means Of The Scheldt Canal, And Railroads Connect It With Germany, France, And Holland, As Well As With All The Principal Towns Of Belgium. The City Is Built Partly On The ...
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic Plague, A Disease Sup Posed To Be Identical With The Plague Known As The Black Death, Which Had Its Origin In China, And Made Its First Appearance In Europe 543 A. D., At Con Stantinople. It Derives Its Modern Name From The Fact That It, Attacks The Lym Phatic ...
Bucharest
Bucharest (bifichar-est), The Capi Tal Of The Former Principality Of Wal Lachia And Of The Present Kingdom Of Ru Mania, Stands 265 Feet Above Sea-level, In The Fertile But Treeless Plain Of The Small, Sluggish Dambovitza. By Rail It Is 716 Miles S. E. Of Vienna, 40 N. Of Giurgevo ...
Budapest
Budapest (bo'da-pest), The Official Name Of The United Towns Of Pest And Buda, Or Ofen, The One On The Right, The Other On The Left, Of The Danube, Form Ing The Capital Of Hungary. Buda, Which Is The Smaller Of The Two, And Lies On The W. Bank Of The ...
Buddha
Buddha (bo'dha), A Man Possessed Of Infinite Or Infallible Knowledge; A Dei Fied Religious Teacher. There Was Said To Be A Series Of Them, A Number Having Come And Gone Before Gautama, The Per Sonage Described Below. When No Buddha Is On Earth, The True Religion Gradually Decays, But It ...
Buddhism
Buddhism, The System Of Faith In Troduced Or Reformed By Buddha. In Its Origin Buddhism Was A Reaction Against The Caste Pretensions Of The Brahmins And Other Aryan Invaders Of India, And Was, Therefore, Eminently Fitted To Become, As It For Long Was, The Religion Of The Vanquished Turanians. As ...
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, The Capital Of Ar Gentina And The Largest City Of The Southern Hemisphere. It Has A Popu Lation Of 1,637,155 (1918). It Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The La Plata River, Twelve Miles From Its Mouth. It Ex Tends Eleven And A Half Miles From N. ...
Buffalo
Buffalo, A Name Often Applied To Two Distinct Bovine Genera Or Sub-genera —viz., The Asiatic Buffalo (bubalus) With The Cape Buffalo; And The American Buffalo, Better Named Bison. The Genus Or Sub-genus Bubalus Has The Usual Bovine Characteristics, And, Whatever Be Its Exact Limits In Strict Zoological Classi Fication, Remains, ...
Buffalo
Buffalo, City And County-seat Of Erie Co., N. Y., Second City In Population Importance Mportance In New York. It Is Built At The E. End Of Lake Erie, At The Head Of The Niagara River, 20 Miles Above The Falls. It Is The W. Terminus Of The Erie Canal, And ...
Building And Loan Associa
Building And Loan Associa Tions, Combinations Of Individuals, Who Agree To Pay A Fixed Sum Monthly, By Which A Fund Is Accumulated Which Is Loaned To Members Who Desire To Pur Chase Or Improve Real Estate. Their Cap Ital Stock, Which Is Prospective, Is Usu Ally Divided Into Shares Of ...