Blast Furnace
Blast Furnace, A Mechanical Struc Ture 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 ...
Blasting
Blasting, The Technical Term For Split Ting And Breaking Up Any Object By Means Of Gunpowder Or Some Other Powerful Explosive. The Operation, Which Is Of Extensive Use In Quarrying, Mining And Other Branches Of En Gineering, Is Performed By Boring A Hole Or Tunnel In The Substance To Be ...
Bleaching
Bleaching, The Process Of Decolorizing Textile Fibres And Fabrics, Papers, Oils, Waxes And Other Substances So As To Leave Them White. The Operations Of Bleaching Are Essentially Chemical, The Whitening Being Accomplished In Two Ways: (1) By The Oxidation Of The Color Ing Matter In The Substance To Be Bleached ...
Bleaching Materials
Bleaching Materials, The Various Substances Used In Bleaching Or Fading Out Coloring Matters From Cotton, Linen, Wool, Silk Or Other Fabrics. They Embrace Chloride Of Lime Or Bleaching Powder, Chloride Of Soda, And Other Hypochlorites, Hydrogen Peroxide (or Dioxide), Sodium And Other Peroxides (or Dioxides) ; Bisulphites Of Soda, Lime, ...
Bleeding
Bleeding, The Escape Of Blood From The Arteries Or Veins. Bleeding May Be External, And Thus Readily Seen And Prevented By Proper Sur Gical Measures, Or It May Take Place Internally, Into One Of The Large Body Cavities, And Is Then A Serious Matter. The Amount Of Blood That Is ...
Blenheim
Blenheim, Blen'ini, Or Blindheim, Bavaria, Village About 23 Miles From Augsburg, The Theatre Of A Great Battle, Fought 13 Aug. 1704 (also Called The Battle Of Hochstadt, From Another Village Of This Name In The Vicinity), In Which Marlborough And Prince Eugene, Com Manding The Allied Forces Of England And ...
Blenheim House
Blenheim House, The Name Of The Seat Of The Duke Of Marlborough, In The Parish Of Woodstock And County Of Oxford. The Estate Having Been Given By Queen Anne To Marlborough For His Eminent Services, Parlia Ment Granted The Sum Of Half A Million Sterling To Erect A Suitable Family ...
Blennerhassett
Blennerhassett, Harman, English Emigrant In America: B. Hampshire, England, 8 Oct. 1764; D. On The Island Of Guernsey, 2 Feb. 1831. He Sprang From A Wealthy And Highly Connected House Which Traced Its An Cestry Back To Edward Iii; Was Educated At Westminster School, London. And Trinity Col Lege, Dublin, ...
Blepharoplast
Blepharoplast. The Blepharoplast Is The Organ Which Gives Rise To The Cilia Of Sperms. While It Cannot Be Said That All Cilia Are Developed From Blepharoplasts, It Is Equally True That Blepharoplasts Do Not Occur Except In Connection With Cilia. Usually, Ble Pharoplasts Are Very Small, Mfg Of An Inch, ...
Blessington
Blessington, Marguerite (countess Or): B. Knockbrit, Near Clonmel, Ireland, 1 Sept 1789; D. Paris, 4 June 1849. She Was The Daughter Of Edmund Power, And At The Age Of 15 Was Married (unhappily) To A Captain Farmer, Who Died In 1817. A Few Months After His Death She Married Charles ...
Bligh
Bligh, William, English Navigator: B. Plymouth, England, 9 Sept. 1754; D. 7 Dec. 1817. He Acquired Considerable Celebrity From Having Been The Commander Of The Ship Bounty When The Crew Mutinied In The South Seas And Carried Her Off. She Had Been Fitted Out For The Purpose Of Procuring Plants ...
Blind
Blind, Education Of The. When It Is Stated That Prior To 1830 The Blind Of America Were To Be Found °moping In Hidden Corners Or Degraded By The Wayside, Or Vegetating In Almshouses," It Is The Adult Blind That Is Meant. Still Blind Children Were Occasionally Found In These Places, ...
Blind Spot
Blind Spot. The Place Of Entry Of The Optic Nerve In Each Retina Is Insensitive To Light. Mariotte In 1668 First Demonstrated The Existence Of The Blind Spot. Its Existence May Be Easily Shown As Follows: Pin A Large Sheet Of Paper Against The Wall So That A Cross Marked ...
Blindness
Blindness, A General Term To Denote Partial Or Complete Loss Of Vision. It Is Never A Disease Of Itself, But Results From A Number Of Extremely Diverse Diseases, Either Of The Eye Itself, Or Of The Nervous Pathways Which Convey Light Stimuli. It May Be A Congenital Condition Also, And ...
Bliss
Bliss, Tasker Howard, American Soldier: B. Lewisburg, Pa., 31 Dec. 1853. He Was Graduated From The United States Military Academy In 1875, And With Honors From The United States Artillery School In 1884. A Scholarly Soldier, He Has Acted In Numerous Capacities Involving Technical Capacity Beyond The Range Of Strategy ...
Blister
Blister, A Local Collection Of Blood Serum Beneath The Cuticle. Blisters May Be Produced By A Variety Of Agents. In All In Stances, However, There Is Irritation Of The Part; This Is Followed By Dilated Blood Vessels And An Exudation Of The Serum From The Blood Vessels Near The Irritant. ...
Blizzard
Blizzard, A Peculiarly Fierce And Cold Wind, Accompanied By A Very Fine, Blinding Snow Which Suffocates As Well As Freezes Men And Animals Exposed To It. The Origin Of The Word Is Popularly Conceded To The United States Where There Is Evidence Of Its Use As Early As 1840; Recent ...
Block Signal System
Block Signal System, The Method Of Protecting Railroad Trains In Motion, Through The Dividing Of The Road Into Sections, Or (blocks,* In Which But One Train Is Allowed At A Time On The Same Track. The System Is Operated Through Signals Which Have The Effect Of Strict Orders To The ...
Blockade
Blockade. The Term Blockade, Prop Erly Used, Involves A State Of War. The So Called Pacific Blockade Is A Form Of Reprisal Or Restraint Short Of War. A Blockade Is Also Distinct From Domestic Prohibition Of Inter Course Or Closure Ofrts. Blockade Does Not Necessarily In Later Days Have Any ...
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein, Bloom'f6n-tin, Or Ange River Colony, South Africa, The Chief Town And Seat Of Government Of The Colony, 680 Miles Northeast Of Cape Town, Situated In An Elevated And Healthy Region. It Stands On A Plain Surrounded By Low Hills, And Is Reg Ularly Laid Out, Having A Large Market-square ...
Blois
Blois, Blwa (anciently Blesum), France, The Capital Of The Department Of Loir-et-cher, 99 Miles South-southwest Of Paris, Situated On The Right Bank Of The Loire, From Which It Rises In The Form Of An Amphitheatre. It Con Sists Of An Upper Town, With Very Narrow And Crooked Streets; A Lower ...
Blood
Blood, Thomas, English Adventurer, Better Known As Colonel Moon: B. About 1618, Probably In Ireland; D. Westminster, 24 Aug. 1680. He Was The Son Of A Blacksmith In Easy Circumstances; Of His Early Life Little Is Known, Except That He Took The Parliamentary Side In The Irish Rebellion. Having Visited ...
Blood
Blood, Circulation Of. The Highly Dif Ferentiated And Marvelously Regulated Circula Tory System In Man Furnishes Striking Evidence Of Evolutionary Development In Response To Growing Complexity Of Environmental De Mands. Unicellular Animals And The Lowest Metazoa Obtain From The Surrounding Fluid In Which They Live Oxygen And Nutritive Material And ...
Blood Feud
Blood Feud, The Right Of Individual, Or Family, Vengeance In Cases Of Bloodshed. In A Very Primitive State Of Society The Ten Dency Toward Private Instrumentality In The Punishment Of Crime Is Largely Unchecked. In Passing From This Stage To The Highly Organ Ized System Of Legal Penalties Enforced By ...
Blood Pressure
Blood Pressure. This Term Refers To Arterial Tension Or To The Pressure Of The Blood In The Blood Vessels. It Depends Upon The Cardiac Strength, The Peripheral Resistance, The Elasticity Of The Vessel Walls And The Volume Of Blood. Three Factors Are To Be Considered — The Maximum Or Systolic ...
Blood Transfusion
Blood Transfusion. The Process Of Transferring Whole Blood From The Blood Vessels Of One Individual To That Of Another. Transfusion Can Only Be Accomplished In Ani Mals Of The Same Species. History.—transfusion Of Blood Dates As Far Back As The Time Of The Ancient Egyptians. The Earliest Reported Case Is ...
Blood Vessels
Blood Vessels, Diseases Of The. It Is Not Strange That A Tissue Subject To Such Constant Use, To All Kinds Of Strains And To The Unintermittent Influence Of A Complex, Ever Changing Fluid, Bathing Its Inner Coat Should Be Extremely Subject To Disease And Injury. The Frame Work Or Base ...
Blood And Iron
Blood And Iron: A Phrase Used By Bismarck In The Prussian House Of Delegates In A Speech On The Constitution, 30 Sept. 1862: Anicht Durch Reden Und Majorititsbeschliisse Werden Die Grossen Fragen Der Zeit Entschieden — Das Ist Der Fehler Von 1848 Und 1849 Gewe Sen— Sondern Durch Eisen Und ...
Blood Of Our Saviour
Blood Of Our Saviour, An ,order Of Knighthbod, Known Also As The Order Of Our Redeemer, And The Precious Blood Of Jesus Christ. It Was Instituted In Mantua, Italy, In 1608, By Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga And Consisted Of 20 Members. Upon The Collar Was The Legend Do Mine Probasti Me, ...
Blood_2
Blood, The Bright Red To Very Dark Red Alkaline Fluid That Circulates Through The Heart, Arteries And Veins, Carrying Nutriment And Oxy Gen To The Bodily Tissues, And Conveying Away From Them Waste Material. The Composition And Character Of The Blood Varies Very .widely In Different Animals, And Hence This ...
Bloodhound
Bloodhound, A Dog Of The ((hound* Build, Commonly Used For Tracking Fugitives. It Usually Stands From 25 To 27 Inches High At The Shoulders And Weighs About 90 Pounds. In Appearance It Is Of A Sedately Noble Expres Sion, With A Wise-looking, Wrinkled Face. Its Color Is Black, Mingled With ...
Bloomer Costume
Bloomer Costume, A Style Of Dress Introduced About The Year 1849 By Mrs. Amelia Jenks Bloomer (q.v.), Who Proposed Thereby To Effect A Complete Revolution In Female Dress And Add Materially To The Health And Comfort Of Her Sex. It Consisted Of A Jacket With Close Sleeves, A Skirt Reaching ...
Bloomfield
Bloomfield, Robert, English Poet: B. Honington, Suffolk, 3 Dec. 1766; D. Shefford, 19 Aug. 1823. He Learned To Read At The Village School, And In 1781 Was Sent To Learn The Trade Of A Shoemaker With His Brother In London. The Visiting Of Several Places Of Worship, A De Bating ...
Bloomington
Bloomington, Ill., City And County Seat Of Mclean County, Situated Near The Geo Graphical Centre Of The State, 126 Miles South Of Chicago And On The Illinois Central, Chicago & Alton, Big Four And Lake Erie & Western Railroads. Bloomington Is In The Heart Of The Famous Illinois Corn Belt, ...
Blount
Blount, James H., American Legislator: B. Macon, Ga., 12 Sept. 1837; D. Macon, Ga., 9 March 1903. He Was Graduated From The Uni Versity Of Georgia In 1857; Studied Law And Was Admitted To The Bar In 1858. He First Came Into Public Notice In 1865, When After Having Served ...
Blowing Machines
Blowing Machines. The Term Blowing Machine Or Blower Is Applied To Various Forms Of Mechanical Arrangements Employed For The Production Of Artificial Currents Of Air For Ventilating Purposes, For Forced Draught For Furnaces, Etc. They Are Also Employed As Ex Hausters For The Removal Of Smoke And Fumes From Smelting ...
Blowpipe
Blowpipe, A Tube Or Pipe Arranged To Blow Air Or A Gas Against A Flame, As Of A Gas-jet, So That It May Be Concentrated Upon A Small Surface. Its Most Usual Form Is Described In The Article On Blowpipe Analysis (q.v.). It Is Employed By Jewelers And Goldsmiths In ...
Blowpipe Analysis
Blowpipe Analysis, A Branch Of Chemical Analysis In Which The Composition Of The Substance Under Examination Is Inferred From Its Behavior When Subjected To Certain Flame Tests. The Blowpipe Itself Commonly Con Sists Of A Tapering Brass Tube About Eight Inches Long, Provided With A Bell-shaped Mouthpiece At One End, ...
Blue
Blue, Victor, American Naval Officer: B. North Carolina, 6 Dec. 1865. He Was Grad Uated At The Naval Academy June 1887, And Serving Through The Grades Of Ensign And Junior Lieutenant, Was Promoted Lieutenant 3 March 1899. At The Outbreak Of The War With Spain He Was Ordered To The ...
Blue Laws
Blue Laws, A Term Generally Applied To Any Laws Which Impose Vexatious Restrictions And Interfere With The Ordinary Life Of A Com Munity, Or Which Seek To Regulate The Morals Of The Members Of The Community; The Name Is Especially Applied To The Early Enact Ments Of Several Of The ...
Blue Sky Laws
Blue Sky Laws. This Term Is Applied To Certain Statutes Which Have Been Enacted In A Majority Of The United States For The Pro Tection Of Investors. They Are Designed Chiefly To Regulate The Sale Of Stocks, Bonds And Other Securities, But In Practice Their Applica Tion Has Been Extended ...
Blue_2
Blue, One Of The Seven Primary Colors, Of The Same Shade As The Clear Sky And The Turquoise, And Located In The Solar Spectrum Between The Green And The Violet. The Blue Pigments Commonly Employed By Artists Are Few In Number, Including Native And Artificial Ultramarine, Cobalt, Indigo And Prussian ...
Bluebeard
Bluebeard, A Famous Hero Of Legend And Folklore, Familiarized To English Readers In The 18th Century Through A Translation From The French Of Charles Perrault, 1697. Accord Ing To The Story, The Chevalier Raoul, Whose Surname Is Due To The Color Of His Beard, Had Married Seven Wives, Six Of ...
Bluebird
Bluebird, The ('l'oiseau Bleu)). The Most Generally Acceptableplay Of Maurice Maeterlinck Is 'the Bluebird,' Which, Since Its First Appearance In 1908, Has Achieved Wide Suc Cess Upon The Stage. Although It Lacks The Qualities For Which Its Author Is Best Known, And Especially His Dreamy, Suggestive Evocation Of Inarticulate Fears, ...
Bluefish
Bluefish. The Bluefish Or "skipjack' (pomatomus Saltatrix) Is One Of The Most Widely Distributed And Abundant Of Sea-fishes, Being Found In The Atlantic From The Mediter Ranean And Nova Scotia To Brazil, And In The Pacific And Indian Oceans. It Is Taken Casu Ally At All Seasons On The Eastern ...
Blumenbach
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, German Naturalist Of Distinction: B. Gotha, 11 May 1752; D. Gottingen, 22 Jan. 1840. He Studied At Jena And Gottingen, And Was Ap Pointed In The Latter, In 1776, Extraordinary Pro Fessor Of Medicine And Inspector Of The Museum Of Natural History, And In 1778 Ordinary Pro ...
Bluntschli
Bluntschli, Bliint'shle, Johann Kas Per, Swiss Jurist And Statesman: B. Zurich, 7 March 1808; D. Karlsruhe, 21 Oct. 1881. He Studied Jurisprudence At Zurich, Later Under Savigny In Berlin, And At Bonn. He Became Professor In The Newly-founded University Of Zurich In 1833; Took An Active Part In The Politi ...
Bnai Brith
B'nai B'rith, B'ni B'reth, Independent Order Of, An Association Of German Jews Formed In The United States In 1843. Its Pur Pose Is The Moral Improvement Of The Mem Bers. Its Organization Resembles That Of The Free Masons, But It Is Not A Secret Society, And Has No Elaborate Ceremonial. ...
Boadicea
Boadicea, More Correctly, Boudicca, Queen Of The Iceni, A British Tribe, Inhabiting What Are Now The Counties Of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk And Hertfordshire. She Died About 62 A.d. The Celebrated Earthworks Still Extant, Known As The Devil's Ditch, At Newmar Ket Heath, And At Six-mile Bottom, Are Sup Posed To ...
Boar
Boar, Wild, A Ferocious, Swift-footed Species (sus Scrofa) Of Wild Swine, Made Dangerous By Its Extreme Courage And Superior Strength. It Is Found In Marshy Forest-grounds Of Europe, Asia Minor And North Africa. The Boar Is Much Larger Than The Domesticated Swine; And Covered With Short, Grayish-black, Woolly Hair, Thickly ...
Boat
Boat, A Term Now Indiscriminately Used For Sea And River Vessels Of All Kinds, But More Properly Applied To A Vessel That Can Be Hauled Up On Or Launched From A Beach. It May Be Propeled By Oars, Sails, Steam Or Other Motive Power. From The Earliest Ages Men Have ...
Bobo Buddor
Bobo Buddor, Bo-ro Bood-or, Or (the "great The Ruin Of A Temple In Java, Near The Junc Tion Of The Ello And Progo, The Most Elaborate Monument Of The Buddhist Style Of Architecture Anywhere Existing. Javanese Chronicles Assign The Building To The 7th Century, But These Docu Ments Were Composed ...
Bobolink
Bobolink, An Oriole Of The Family Icteride, Found In Plains, Prairie-lands, Meadows And Cultivated Fields Throughout The Entire United States, Except On The Pacific Coast. The Male Is 7.7 Inches Long, Its Tail Taking Up Fully Half Of Its Length. It Is Distinguished From The Blackbirds And Other Orioles By ...
Boborykin
Boborykin, Piotr Drni Trievich, Russian Man Of Letters (novelist, Playwright, Scientist, Actor, Etc.) : B. Nizhni Novgorod, 15 Aug. 1836. After Having Received In His Grandfather's Home A Most Careful Pre Liminary Education Under Competent Instructors, He Attended The Courses In Chemistry, Medicine And Law At The University Of Kazan. ...
Boccaccio
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Italian Novelist: B. 1313, In Paris Or Florence; D. Certaldo, 21 Dec. 1375. His Family Was Originally Of Certaldo, But His Father Being En Gaged In Commerce, Removed To Florence, Where He Amassed Wealth And Filled Several Im Portant Public Offices. Very Early In Life Gio Vanni Displayed ...
Bode
Bode, Wilhelm Von, German And Archaeologist : B. Kalvorde, Brunswick, 10 Dec. 1845. He First Intended To Become A Law Yer, But Was So Attracted By The Arts That He Renounced This Idea And Took Up The Study Of Archmology In Berlin, G6ttingen And Then In Vienna. In 1872 He ...
Bodin
Bodin, Bd-dan, Jean, French Scholar And Innovator In Economic And Political Theory: B. Angers 1530; D. Laon 1596. He Studied Law In Toulouse And After A Lectureship In That Then Notable School Attempted Without Distin Guished Success The Practice Of Law In Paris. This He Presently Abandoned For Political And ...
Bodmer
Bodmer, B. Johann Jakob, Literary Critic: Greifensee, Switzerland, 19 July 1698; D. Zurich, 2 Jan. 1783. With Breit Inger From 1721-23 He Issued The Periodical Diskurse Der Maier, In Which German Poetry Was Severely Criticised For Its Servility To French Models. Based On National And Ancient Stand Ards, He Formed ...
Body And Mind
Body And Mind, In Philosophy, The Problems Of The Reality Of Mind And Body, And Of The Relations Conceived To Exist Between Them. Mind And Body, Positing Temporarily Their Reality, May First Be Regarded From The Point Of View Of Correlated Action. Generally Experience Reveals Indisputably The Intimate Re Lation ...
Boeckh
Boeckh, Bek, August, German Classical Scholar: B. Karlsruhe, 24 Nov. 1785• D. Berlin, 3 Aug. 1867. In 1803 He Entered The Univer Sity Of. Halle, Where He Was Induced By The Influence Of Wolf To Devote Himself To The Study Of Philology. After Spending Three Years Here And More Than ...
Boerhaave
Boerhaave, Hermann, Dutch Physician: B. Woorhout, Near Leyden, 31 Dec. 1668; D. 23 Sept. 1738. Boerhaave Re Ceived From His Father A Liberal Education. In 1682 He Was Sent To Leyden To Study Theology. In 1688 He Received A Gold Medal From The City For An Academic Oration, In Which ...
Boers
Boers, Bo'ors (dutch Boer, A Peasant Or Husbandman), The Name Commonly Applied To The South African Colonists Of Dutch Descent. The Cape Colony Was Founded By The Dutch In 1652, And About 1687 The Colony Was Increased By A Number Of French Huguenot Settlers Who Were Later Absorbed In The ...
Boffins Bower
Boffin's Bower, In Dickens' Our Mutual Friend,) Home Of The Boffins. The Name Was Given By Mrs. Boffin, Who Did Not Approve Of Its Former Name, °harmon's Jail?) Bog, An Irish Word, Literally Meaning Soft, Applied In Great Britain To Extensive Dis Tricts Of Marshy Land, Such As We Commonly ...
Bogdanovich
Bogdanovich, Ippolit Fedorovich, Russian Poet: B. 23 Dec. 1743 O. S.; D. 1802. From His Earliest Years He Showed A Great Love For Poetry, Music And Painting, But When, In 1754, His Parents Brought Him To Moscow And Forced Him To Study Law At The University, He Secretly Tried To ...
Bogos
Bogos, Bo'gerz, A People Of Abyssinia, Occupying A District In The Highlands North Of Abyssinia, Now Part Of The Italian Colony Of Eritria. The Land Is Intersected By The Broad And Beautiful Valley Of The Anseba, And Com Prises On The West The Elevated And Hilly Region As Far As ...
Boguslawski
Boguslawski, Palm Henri Louis Von, German Astronomer: B. Madgeburg, 7 Sept. 1789; D. Breslau, 5 June 1851. He Was Enrolled In The Army For The Campaign Of 1806 And Afterward Studied Astronomy. Called To Berlin In 1809, Made Lieutenant In 1811, He Con Tinued His Astronomical Studies Under Bode, And ...
Boheme
Boheme, La. Grand Opera In Four Acts By Giacomo Puccini (libretto By Giacosa And Illica, Founded On A Tale By Henri Murger) First Produced At Turin, Italy, 1 Feb. 1896. It Was The Composer's Fourth Opera And At Once Placed Him At The Head Of The Younger Italian School And ...
Bohemia
Bohemia, Bbhmen (anciently Bo Nstm), Austria, A Province Formerly A Kingdom Bounded On The Southwest By Bavaria, On The Northwest By The Kingdom Of Saxony, On The Northeast By The Prussian Province Of Silesia And On The Southeast By Moravia And The Archduchy Of Austria. It Contains 20,065 Square Miles, ...
Bohemian Brethren
Bohemian Brethren. A Christian Sect Which Arose In Bohemia About The Middle Of The 15th Century From The Remains Of The Hussites. Dissatisfied With The Advances To Ward The Catholic Church By Which The Calix Tines Had Made Themselves The Ruling Party In Bohemia, They Refused To Receive The Compacts, ...
Bohemian Language And Lit
Bohemian Language And Lit Erature. The Language Of Bohemia, Other Wise Called Czech, Is One Of The Slavonic Group Of The Aryan Or Indo-european Family Of Tongues, And Accordingly Allied To Polish, Rus Sian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Etc. (see Slavs Or Slavonians). The Czech (bohemian) Lan Guage Or Dialect Was The ...
Bohemond I
Bohemond I, The Son Of The Norman Adventurer Robert Guiscard, Who Rose To Be Duke Of Apulia And Calabria; B. 1056; D. 1111. He Became Familiar With Warfare When A Mere Boy, Took A Prominent Part In Various Expedi Tions To Greece And Illyria Against Alexis Comnenus, And Repeatedly Defeated ...
Bohm
Bohm, Theobald. Bavarian Musician: B. Munich, 9 April 1798; D. There 25 Nov. 1881. He Was First Flutist Of The Munich Royal Orchestra For Several Years But Is Best Known For His Improvements In The Construction And Fingering Of The Flute. He Wrote Weber Den Flotenbau Und Die Neuesten Verbesserungen ...
Bohme
Bohme, Betne, Or Bohm, Jakob, One Of The Most Renowned Mystics Of Modern Times: B. 1575, Altseidenberg, A Village In Upper Lusatia; D. Gorlitz, November 1624. 136hme, Being The Son Of Poor Peasants, Re Mained To His 10th Year Without Instruction, And Employed In Tending Cattle. Raised By Con Templation ...