St John
St. John, A City, Seaport, And Capital Of St. John Co., Province Of New Bruns Wick, Canada, On The St. John River, At Its Entrance Into The Bay Of Fundy, And On The Intercolonial, The New Brunswick Southern, And The Canadian Pacific Rail Roads, 481 Miles E. Of Montreal. It ...
St Johns
St. John's, A City, Capital Of New Foundland, And The Extreme Eastern Sea Port Of North America; 1,076 Miles N. E. Of Montreal And 1,665 Miles W. By S. Of Galway, Ireland, The Shortest Distance Between Any Two Seaports Of America And Europe. It Is On The Atlantic Ocean And ...
St Joseph
St. Joseph, A City And County-seat Of Buchanan Co., Mo.; On The Missouri River, And On The Burlington Route, The Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe, The Chicago Great Western, The Missouri Pacific, The Chicago, Rock Island, And Pacific, The St. Joseph And Grand Island, And The Kansas City, Clay County ...
St Lawrence
St. Lawrence, A River Of North America, Forming In Its Upper Reaches Part Of The N. Boundary Of The United States, But For The Most Part Confined To The Canadian Dominion. It Issues From Lake Ontario At Kingston, Where The Name Begins To Be Applied To The River, Though The ...
St Louis
St. Louis, A Port Of Entry, And Chief City Of Missouri; On The W. Bank Of The Mississippi River, 20 Miles S. Of The Mouth Of The Missouri. It Is The Sixth City In The United States In Population, And The Commercial Metropolis Of The Mississippi Valley. The City Is ...
St Mihiel
St. Mihiel, A Town Of France, Which Was The Scene Of Several Battles During The World War. It Is Situated On The Meuse, 11 Miles N. N. W. Of Commercy, And Before The World War Had Several Interesting Churches, One Of Them The Church Of The Former Abbey Of Saint ...
St Pauls
St. Paul's, A Cathedral In London, England, Situated On Ludgate Hill, An Elevation On The N. Bank Of The Thames. The Site Of The Present Building Was Orig Inally Occupied By A Church Erected By Ethelbert, King Of Kent, In 610. This Was Destroyed By Fire In 1087, And Another ...
St Peters
St. Peter's, The Cathedral Of Rome, The Largest And One Of The Most Magnifi Cent Churches In Christendom. It Is A Cruciform Building In The Italian Style, Surmounted By A Lofty Dome, Built On The Legendary Site Of St. Peter's Martyrdom. In 306 Constantine The Great Erected On This Spot ...
Stephen Clegg Rowan
Rowan, Stephen Clegg, An American Naval Officer; Born Near Dub Lin, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1808; Came To The United States Whon A Boy, And On Feb. 1, 1826, Was Appointed A Midshipman In The Navy. He Was Promoted Lieutenant, March 8, 1837; Took Part In The Capture Of Monterey And ...
Sydney Smith
Smith, Sydney, An English Clergy Man; Born In Woodford, Essex, England, June 3, 1771. Educated At Winchester School, Sydney, In 1789, Entered New College, Oxford, Where He Took His Degree Of M.a. In 1796, Becoming Fellow A Few Years Afterward. In 1797 He Obtained The Curacy Of Netheravon, A Village ...
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Theodore, An Amer Ican Statesman, Historian, Essayist, Pub Licist, Naturalist, Explorer, Civil And Politi Cal Reformer, Soldier, 26th President Of The United States. Born, New York City, Oct. 27, 1858; Was Graduated From Har Vard University 1880, And Was Subse Quently The Recipient Of Many Honorary Degrees From American ...
Tobias George Smollett
Smollett, Tobias George, An English Novelist, Born In March, 1721, The Son Of Archibald Smollett, Of Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, And His Wife, Barbara Cunningham. He Was Educated In Dumbarton And At Glasgow University, Where He Studied Medicine. After Some Years Of An Apprenticeship With A Dr. John Gordon, He Went ...
Union Of South Africa
South Africa, Union Of, A Polit Ical Division Of South Africa, Extending From The Southernmost Point Of The Afri Can Continent To The Course Of The Lim Popo River, • - I From 34° 50'-22° S. Lati Tude, And Including All The British Terri Tories Within Those Limits, With The ...
United States Revenue Cutter
Revenue Cutter Service, United States, A Military Service Organized In 1790 By Congress To En Force The Navigation And Customs Laws. The United States Navy Had Not At That Date Been Established And The Service Was Made A Branch Of The Treasury As It Is Today. The Service, Consisting At ...
Victorien Sardou
Sardou, Victorien, A French Playwright; Born At Paris, In 1831. He Began His Education As A Student Of Medicine, Abandoned Medical Studies For History And Taught For A Period During Which He Made His First Dramatic Ven Tures. Later Gave Up Teaching And Became A Professional Writer And Jour Nalist. ...
Wars Of The Roses
Roses, Wars Of The, A Disastrous Dynastic Struggle Which Desolated Eng Land During The 15th Century, From The First Battle Of St. Albans (1455) To That Of Bosworth (1485). It Was So-called Because The Two Factions Into Which The Country Was Divided Upheld The Two Sev Eral Claims To The ...
Werner Von Siemens
Siemens, Werner Von, A Ger Man Engineer And Electrician; Born In Lenthe, Hanover, Dec. 13, 1816. In 1834 He Entered The Prussian Artillery, And In 1844 Was Put In Charge Of The Artillery Workshops At Berlin. He Early Showed Scientific Tastes, And In 1841 Took Out His First Patent For ...
William 1564 1616 Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William (1564 1616), Was The Son Of John Shakespeare, A Dealer In Agricultural Products In The Town Of Stratford-on-avon, In Warwick Shire, England. John, At The Height Of His Fortune, Which Was Probably Improved By His Marriage With Mary Arden, The Daughter Of A Well-to-do Squire, Rose To Be ...
William Henry Roberts
Roberts, William Henry, An American Presbyterian Clergyman, Born At Holyhead, Wales, In 1844. He Was Educated At The College Of The City Of New York And At Princeton Theological Seminary, Receiving Honorary Degrees From Several American Universities. From 1863 To 1865 He Was Statistician Of The Treasury Department, And From ...
William Luther Sibert
Sibert, William Luther, An American Soldier, Born At Gadsden, Ala., In 1860. He Graduated From The United States Military Academy In 1884 And Was Appointed 2nd Lieutenant Of Engineers In The Same Year. In 1887 He Graduated From The Engineering School Of Applica Tion. He Was Appointed Captain In 1896, ...
William Petty Shelburne
Shelburne, William Petty, Earl Of, Son Of The 1st Earl, And Ma Ternal Grandson Of The Famous Sir Will Iam Petty; Born In Dublin, May 20, 1737. After Studying At Oxford And Serving In Germany, He Entered The House Of Com Mons For The Borough Of Wycombe In 1761, But ...
William Sowden Sims
Sims, William Sowden, An Am Erican Naval Officer; Born At Port Hope, Canada, In 1858. He Was Appointed To The United States Naval Academy From Pennsylvania. Graduated In 1880, He Was Promoted Through The Various Grades To The Rank Of Commander In 1907, Of Captain In 1911, Of Rear-admiral In ...
William Starke Rosecrans
Rosecrans, William Starke, An American Military Officer; Born In Kingston, O., Sept. 6, 1819; Was Grad Uated At The United States Military Acad Emy In 1842; Entered The Army As Brevet 2d Lieutenant Of Engineers, But After Serving For A Year At Hampton Roads Returned To West Point As Assistant ...
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman, William Tecumseh, An American Military Officer; Born In Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1820. His Father, One Of The Judges Of The Supreme Court Of Ohio, Died In 1829, And William Was Educated In The Family Of Thomas Ewing Till He Had Reached The Age Of 16, When He Went ...
William Thomas Sampson
Sampson, William Thomas, An American Naval Officer ; Born In Palmyra, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1840. He Attended The Public Schools Of His Native Town, And In 1857 Entered The United States Naval Academy, From Which He Was Graduated In 1861, And Was Assigned To Duty On The Frigate "potomac." ...
Winfield Scott
Scott, Winfield, An American Military Officer; Born Near Petersburg, Va., June 13, 1786; Was Educated At William And Mary College, And Studied Law. In 1808 He Was Appointed Captain Of Light Artillery In General Wilkinson's Division, Stationed At Baton Rouge, La.; But Was Suspended For Having Accused His General Of ...
The Rhodes Scholarships
Rhodes Scholarships, The, Fel Lowships For General Study At Oxford University, England, Established, To The Number Of 189, Under The Will Of Cecil John Rhodes (q. V.) For The Purpose Of Perpetuating, In So Far As Possible, The Idea Of Dominant Anglo-saxon Leader Ship, By Educating Anglo-saxon Youths Of Proper ...
The Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains, The, A Chain Of Mountains In The Central And W. Por Tions Of The North American Continent, Are A Prolongation Of The Great Mexican Cordillera, Extending From The N. Fron Tier Of Mexico N. In Several Ranges, One Of Which, The E., Passing Through British North America, Reaches ...
The Short Story
Short Story, The. The Anecdotal Short Story, Which Passes From Tongue To Tongue, And Has Done So Since The Earliest Times, Is No More A Literary Form Than The Riddle Or The Joke, Although Like These It May Pass Into Literature. The Literary Short Story Is Of Course A Much ...
The Two Sicilies
Sicilies, The Two, A Former King Dom Of Italy, Consisting Of Naples (or S. Italy) And Sicily. In 1047, While Greeks And Saracens Were Struggling For The Pos Session Of Lower Italy And Sicily, The 12 Sons Of Tancred De Hauteville, A Count In Lower Normandy, Came In With Their ...