42 Engineering In Great
42. Engineering In Great Brit Ain. Engineering As A Profession Is Only Par Tially Organized In Great Britain. To Under Stand The Present State Of Development A Brief Historical Statement Is Necessary. Historical— On The Military Side Engineer In G Is And Has Been Thoroughly Organized. For Tification And The ...
43 English Newspapers
43. English Newspapers. In 1917 There Were Published In The United Kingdom 2,366 Newspapers, Distributed As Follows: Lon Don, 451 • Provinces, 1,458; Wales, 126; Scot Land, 254• Ireland, 186; In The Surrounding Islands, 17. Of These, 147 Were Daily Papers Published In England, 19 In Scotland, 16 In Ire ...
44 The Trend Of
44. The Trend Of Thought And Literature In The 19th Century. General Characteristics.—an Almost Unprece Dented Development Or Expansion Of Intellectual Energy Characterized The Opening Years Of The 19th Century In Great Britain. The Emancipat Ing Influences, Which Had Produced The French Revolution, Were Then Working In England At Their ...
45 The British Navy
45. The British Navy. Over A Thousand Years Ago Alfred The Great Fought And Blockaded The Danes With His Fleet Of Rowing Boats. A Thousand Years Later Found Great Britain Still The Undisputed Mistress Of The Seas, Fighting And Blockading The Greatest Military And The Second Strongest Naval Power On ...
46 The British Army
46. The British Army. The Regu Lar The British Army Is In Many Re Spects Like The British Constitution. It Has Grown, It Has Not Been Made. No Single Idea Has Dominated Its History, No Directing Mind Has Prescribed Its Form Or Defined Its Functions. But While The Forces, Which ...
47 British Foreign Policy
47. British Foreign Policy In Europe. For About Five Centuries After The Fall Of The Roman Empire, That Is, From The 5th Up To The Opening Of The 11th Century, There Was One Absorbing Issue Before Europe. That Issue Was Whether European Civilization Was To Continue To Exist Or Not. ...
48 British Foreign Policy
48. British Foreign Policy In India. There Is No Space For Even A Brief Sketch Of The Marvellous Story Of The British Wooing And Winning Of The Great Peninsula, Which Contains Nearly One-fifth Of The Human Race. A Glance At The Map Of India Will Show That Others Also Wooed, ...
49 British Foreign Policy
49. British Foreign Policy In Africa And America. At The Outbreak Of The European War The British Possessions In Africa Amounted To A Total Of 2,100,000 Square Miles. On 5 Nov. 1914 Great Britain Declared War On Turkey, And On 17 December The Turk Ish Suzerainty Over Egypt Was Ended. ...
5 English History Of
5. English History Of The 17th Century. The Intensely Dramatic Nature Of The Events Of The Political Life Of England In The 17th Century Has Led Every English And American Historian To Attribute To The Period An Exaggerated Importance. The Generally Ac Cepted View Held By These Historians Is That ...
50 The Free Trade
50. The Free Trade Movement. Introduction.— The British Are Free Traders And Hold It Vital To Their Interests To Maintain Free Trade. They Do Not, Of Course, Mean That The Government Ought Never To Take Any Toll From Traders Or Lay Any Taxation Whatever Upon Imported Goods. In A Modern ...
52 Great Britain And
52. Great Britain And The World War. The Participation Of Great Britain In The World War, In August 1914, Has Been Ascribed To Causes So Diverse That It Seems Advisable Briefly To Describe The Chief Events Which Brought It About, And To Leave The Reader To Form His Own Conclusions. ...
53 Great Britain
53. Great Britain, Diplomatic Re Lations Of The United States With. The Relations Of The United States With Great Britain, Both By Origin And Inheritance Of The Republic And By Commercial And Neighboring Interests, Have Always Been More Important Than Relations With Any Other Power. In Them May Be Traced ...
7 The French Wars
7. The French Wars Of The 18th Century. Hostility To Frince Is One Of The Chief Characteristics Of British Policy In The 18th Century. It May Be Ascribed To Various Motives, Religious, Dynastic, Commer Cial, And To The Purely Political Motive Of Main Taining The Balance Of Power. At The ...
8 History Of The
8. History Of The 19th Cen Tury. The History Of The British People In The 19th Century Is Dominated By Three Facts Or Tendencies, Themselves The Outcome Of Its Past History And Its Physical Environment: (1) A Portentous Development Of The National Re Sources, Resulting From The Industrial Revolu Tion, ...
9 The Political
9. The Political Parties— To 1906. Party Government Begins, In Primitive Society, With The Struggle For Power, The Nature Of Which Is Determined In Each Case By Local And Tribal Conditions, And By The Influence Of Men Who Are Or Aspire To Be Leaders. At A Later Stage, When Abstract ...
Agriculture In The 18th
Agriculture In The 18th Century, By Dr. Knowles). Though Agriculture Still Remains The Greatest Single Industry, Yet By The Aggregate Of Her Industries Britain Is Now An Industrial Rather Than An Agricultural Country. In Other Words, She Rests On Her Output Of Coal Rather Than Of Wheat And Meat. The ...
Ancient
Ancient, Climate. Vegetation, Agriculture, Etc.— The Culti Vated Land In Greece Has Recently Been Estimated At Rather More Than 5,563,100 Acres. There Are Besides 5,000,000 Acres Of Pasture Land, And 3,000,000 Acres Of Waste Land. The Draining Of Lake Copais Redeems 60,000 Acres Of Land, Which The Company Divides Into ...
Angle Of Elevation
Angle Of Elevation. In Air, Feet. Yards. Yards. 04' 1,531 1,000 1,115 15' 1,383 2,000 2,350 35' 1,258 3,000 3,732 04' 1,161 4,000 5,277 50' 1,087 5,000 7,007 42' 1,028 6.000 8,975 In Addition To Checking The Velocity Of The Projectile By Direct Pressure And Friction, The Air Acts Upon ...
Attic Vases
Attic Vases. Black Figure Period (uarchaie Style).— Until Recent Years All The Black Figure Decorated Pieces Were Considered Of Attic Production And Were Termed "attic Vases.° Later Discoveries Of The Ware Were Made In Egypt (naucratis), Rhodes, Cyrene, Corinth, Thus Disspelling The Supposition Of Attic Monopoly. Copying The Corinthian Methods, ...
Ature Of
Ature Of. See Also Other Articles In This Sec Tion. L& Irish History. Ireland, Lying To The West Of Great Britain, Forms One Kingdom With It, Which Is Known As The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland. This Designation Was Introduced In The Year 1800, When The Act Of ...
Breakwaters
Breakwaters. The Most Important Work And The Most Fun Damental Feature In Connection With Artificial Sheltering Or Refuge Harbors And Roadsteads Is The Breakwater Intended, As Its Name Indicates, To Break Up And Disperse Heavy Seas, Thereby Preventing The Destruction Of Beaches And Har Bors And Ensuring A Haven For ...
Ch Arles Leonard Stuart
Ch Arles Leonard-stuart, Author Of The Great God Pan,' Etc. Greek Anthology, The. An Thology Is A ((collection Of Flowers." The Greek Anthology,' Often Referred To As The Palatine Anthology, Is A Collection Of Epigrams And Epigrammatic Poems, Very Few Of Which Exceed 12 Lines, And More Than Nine-tenths Of ...
Charles Leonard Stuart
Charles Leonard-stuart, Editorial Staff Of The Americana. Greek Mythology. Mythology Cludes Both Those Explanations Which The Agination Of Man, Primitive Or Civilized, Has Devised To Account For Natural Phenomena And For The Relations Between The Various Parts Of The Universe, And Also A Wide Range Of Other Tales, Probably Invented ...
Chartism
Chartism. "the People's Charter," Drafted By Francis Place, The Radical Tailor, Was Issued In 1838. Its Six Points Were Universal (i.e., Manhood), Suffrage, Election By Ballot, Payment Of Mem Bers, Annual Parliaments, Equal Electoral Dis Tricts And The Abolition Of Property Qualification For Members. This Purely Political Program Gathered To ...
Count Of Seg Ni
Gregory Ix (ugolino, Count Of Seg Ni), Pope (1227-1241): B. Anagni, About 1145; D. Rome, 22 Aug. 1241. He Was Educated At Paris And Bologna And In 1298 Was Created Car Dinal-deacon Of Sant' Eustachio. In 1207 He Was Sent As Papal Legate To Germany And Ac Complished A Similar ...
Crown And Cabinet
Crown And Cabinet (article 13). The Revolution Of 1689 Had Split The Country Into Two Great Parties — The Whigs And The Tories. The Whigs, Who Were The Active Com Mercial Party, Were In Favor Of A Protestant Succession And Toleration In Matters Of Religion. As They Believed In A ...
Docks And Break Waters
Harbors, Docks And Break Waters. The Principal Purpose Of A Com Mercial Harbor Is To Furnish A Means For Trans Ferring Freight From The Interior To Seagoing Carriers. The Harbor Affording The Cheapest And Most Expeditious Shipping Facilities At Tracts The Greatest Patronage, As It Is The Facility For Readily ...
England
England. Elementary Two Important Factors In Spreading Elementary Education Were The Society For Promoting Christian Knowl Edge, Founded In 1698, And The Sunday School Movement, Crystallized In The Foundation Of The Sunday School Society In 1785,, And Represent Ing Largely The Evangelical Revival Of The 18th Century. The Educational Work ...
Etruscan Vases
Etruscan Vases. Early Italian Pottery.— In This Period Title Authorities Include Wares Dating From 1000 B.c. To 400 B.c., And Walters (british Museum), Di Vides It Into The Villanova And Latium Periods And The Etruscan Bucchero And Polledrara Wares. The "villanova Period" Pieces Are Cin Erary Urns Of The 10th ...
Fungi
Fungi And Fungicides. The Evolution Of American Grapes.—it Should Be Noted, In Conclusion, That The Develop Ment Of American Grape Culture Has Been A Process Of Evolution With A Survival Of The Fittest. Thus, The Improvement In The Quality Of Our Native Grapes Has Been Something Re Markable. It Represents ...
Gogol
Gogol, Agol, Nikolai Vassiljevitch, Russian Novelist And Dramatist, The Father Of Modern Russian Realisni: B. In The Government Of Poltava, 31 March 1809; D. Moscow, 3 March 1852. From An Early Period He Evinced A Lik Ing For The Drama, Endeavored Unsuccessfully To Establish Himself As An Actor, And At ...