Central
Central Amer/ca. Though On The Map Central America Appears To Be A Mere Isthmus Extending In A Southeasterly Direction From Mexico To Colombia, Between The Carib Bean Sea And The Pacific Ocean, It Is In Fact Structurally Much More Nearly Related To The West Indies, Including The Gulf Of Mexico ...
Central America
Central America, Diplomatic Re Lations The Earlier General Interest Of The United States In Latin America Was First Attracted To A Larger Consideration Of The Prob Lems Relating To Central America Under Mon Roe's Administration, Which In 1818 Had An Opportunity To Consider Suggestions For Estab Lishing The Southern Limit ...
Central Park
Central Park, The Most Noted Park In New York City, Extends From 59th Street To 110th Street Between Fifth Avenue And Eighth Avenue. In 1856, The Year Of Its Purchase By The City, The Land Now Constituting Central Park Was Occupied By Shanties, Bone-boiling Establish Ments, Piggeries And Pools Of ...
Central Provinces And Berar
Central Provinces And Berar, India, A Chief Commissionershp Created In 1861, Embracing The Former Province Of Nagpur, The Two Territories Of Sagar And Nerbudda And Other Territories Added Since, The Present Desig Nation Dating From 1903. It Is Bounded By The Central Indian Agency And Chota-nagpur On The North, Orissa ...
Central Railroad Of New
Central Railroad Of New Jer Sey, The, A System Operated In New Jersey, New York And Pennsylvania By The Central Railroad Company Of New Jersey And Con Trolled By The Reading Company Which Owns Over 52.9 Per Cent Of The Capital Stock. The Company Was Formed 22 Feb. 1849 For ...
Central Vermont Railway Company
Central Vermont Railway Company. This Company Was Chartered In 1898 Under Authority Of Paragraph No. 6, Act No. 159 Of The Laws Of The State Of Vermont, And Was Formed For The Purpose Of Acquiring Title To, Owning And Operating The Railroads Of The Central Vermont Railroad Company, In Pursuance ...
Central Of Georgia Railway
Central Of Georgia Railway Company, A Corporation Which Owns Or Operates In Georgia 1,340.47 Miles, In Alabama 579.55 And In Tennessee 4.07, A Total Of 1,924.09 Miles Of Main Track. The Northern Terminus Is Chattanooga; The Western Birmingham And Montgomery; The Southern Lockhart, Ala.; And The Eastern Savannah. The Following ...
Centre Of Buoyancy
Centre Of Buoyancy. The Centre Of Buoyancy Of A Floating Body Is That Point Within Its Boundaries Corresponding To The Centre Of Gravity Of The Volume Of Water Or Other Fluid Which Is Displaced. It Is Customary To Regard Buoyancy As A Force Acting Upward And Opposed To Gravity. This ...
Centrosome
Centrosome. The Centrosome Was Long Thought To Be A Permanent Organ Of All Animal And Plant Cells. It Is An Extremely Small Body, Usually Less Than 1/25000 Of An Inch In Diameter, And Is Almost Always Surrounded By A System Of Radiating Threads. It Was First Described By The Zoologist ...
Cents
Cents, Se-ne, Mont, A Mountain Belong Ing To The Graian Alps, Between Savoy And Piedmont, 11,755 Feet High. It Is Famous For The Winding Road Nearly 40 Miles In Length Constructed In 1803-10 By Napoleon I, Which Leads Over It From France To Italy, And For An Immense Railway Tunnel, ...
Cephalization
Cephalization, The Tendency Exhib Ited In Many Different Phyla Of Animals Toward The Specialization Of The Region About The Mouth Into A Distinctive Head, And The Concentration There Of Nervous And Sensory Organs. In The Chordates We Find A Clear Development Starting From The Undifferentiated Oral Region Of Am Phiaxus ...
Cephalonia
Cephalonia, Sef-a-leni-a, Or Ke Phallenia, An Island Of Greece, The Largest Of The Ionian Islands, Northwest Of The Morea, At The Entrance Of The Gulf Of Patras, About 31 Miles In Length And From 5 To 12 In Breadth; Area, About 266 Square Miles; Between Lat. 38° And 38° 31' ...
Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda, A Class Of Mollusks Rep Resented By The Squid, Cuttle-fish, Octopus, Nau Tilus, Argonauts, Etc. In These Mollusks The Head-lobe Bears Arms Or Lobes, As The Animal Has No Afoot* Or Creeping-disc Like That Of Other Mollusks, Though Its Homologue Is Found In The Siphon And Tentacles. They Have ...
Cerambycidr
Cerambycidr, Se-rim-bisl-de, A Fam Ily Of Beetles Of Great Extent, Readily Known By Their Very Long Antenna, Which Give Its Members The Name Of Alongicorns.x' The Fam Ily Already Numbers Some 12,000 Or 13,000 Spe Cies. Though Probably Not Over Half Of The Ex Isting Forms Are Known. It Comprises ...
Ceramics
Ceramics. The Fictile Art; The Art Of The Potter. The Word Ceramics Is Derived From The Greek Keramos, The Potter's Clay. It Is Often Spelled Keramics Following The Greek Spelling Direct, Instead Of Taking The Word From The French Dr-antique. The Subject Cer Amics Can Be Primarily Divided Into Two ...
Cerebellum
Cerebellum, S6r-e-bel'fitn (the Little Brain”, That Portion Of The Brain Situated Be Hind And Beneath The Cerebrum. It Is Connected With The Main Brain Mass By Means Of Two Feet Or Stems, The Cerebellar Peduncles, And Is Sepa Rated From The Main Brain Mass In The Cranial Cavity By A ...
Cerinthus
Cerinthus, One Of The First Heresiarchs Who, According To Saint Irenzus In His Work, (against Heresies,) Was Contemporary With The Evangelist Saint John; But Tertullian And Epi Phanius Refer Him To The Time Of Hadrian. In Irenmus' Work, As Also In The (philosophumena,) Attributed Variously To Origen And Hippolytus, Bishop ...
Cerium
Cerium, Serl-om, A Metallic Element The Oxide Of Which Was Discovered And Recognized As A New Substance In 1803 By Klaproth, And, Independently, By Berzelius And Hisinger. It Was Named For The Minor Planet Ceres, Which Was Also Discovered At Ab(2tit The Same Time. The Principal Source Of Cerium Is ...
Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra, Thir-van'tes Si-a-v3-drii, Miguel De, Spanish Poet And Novelist, One Of The Great Writers Of Modern Times: B. Alcali De Henares, 9 Oct. 1547; D. Madrid, 23 April 1616. His Parents Removed To Madrid When He Was About Seven Years Old. Their Limited Means Made It Desirable That He ...
Cervera Y Topete
Cervera Y Topete, Pascual, Ba'ra A To-pa'ta, Spanish Naval Officer: B. Ince Of Jerez, 18 Feb. 1833; D. Puerto Real, Spain, 3 April 1909. He Was Of Noble Birth On His Mother's Side. He Was Graduated At The Naval Academy Of San Fernando; Entered On Active Service In 1851; Served ...
Cervidie
Cervidie, Seevi-de, The Deer Family, A Group Of Ruminant Ungulates, Including, Besides The Typical Deer, The Reindeer, The Musk-deer And Others. The Most Noticeable Characteris Tic Of The Entire Group Is The Presence, In The Males, Or Ubucks,p Of Branched Appendages To The Skull, Called Antlers. These Are, However, Lacking ...
Cesalpino
Cesalpino, Cha-zal-peno, Or C/bsal Pin, Andrea, Italian Botanist And Physiolo Gist: B. Arezzo, Tuscany, 1519; D. Rome, 23 Feb. 1603. He Studied And Taught Medicine And Botany At The University Of Pisa, And Was Physician To Pope Clement Viii. He Was The Author Of A Valuable Work 'on In Which ...
Cetacea
Cetacea, Se-ta'se-ii, An Order Of Mam Mals Whose Structure Is So Modified As To Render Them Fit For An Aquatic Life. The Whalebone Whales, The Toothed Whales, As The Porpoise, Narwhal, Etc., And The Extinct Zeuglodon, Rep Resent The Leading Divisions Of The Group. The Body Is Fish-like In Form, ...
Ceylon
Ceylon (sanskrit Simhala, From Simha, Lion; Latin Taprobane, And Hindu Silan), An Island Possession And Crown Colony Of Great Britain, In The Indian Ocean, About 60 Miles Southeast Of The Southern Ex Tremity Of Hindustan, From Which It Is Sep Arated By The Gulf Of Manar And Palk Strait. It ...
Chadwick
Chadwick, George Whitefield, Ameri Can Composer: B. Lowell, Mass., 13 Nov. 1854. He Studied Under Stephen Emery And Eugene Thayer In America And Under Richter, Reinecke, Rheinberger And Jadassohn In Germany, Where He Went In 1877. On His Return To America In 1880 He Became Organist Of Saint John's Church ...
Chaille
Chaille, Stanford Emerson, American Physician: B. Natchez, Miss., 9 July 1830; D. New Orleans 1911. He Was Graduated At Harvard In 1851, And Received His M.d At Tulane University In 1853, Subsequently Study Ing In Europe For Three Years. During 1862-63 He Was Medical Inspector Of The Confederate Army In ...
Chain Armor
Chain Armor. Called Also Mail Armor, Chain Mail, Or Even Mail. The Term Coat-of-mail (taken From The French Cotte De Mailles) Is Often, By Extension, Used To Cover The Entire (panoply) Chain Armor — Camail, Hauberk, Chausses, Etc. The Earliest Body De Fenses Started With The Eastern Jazerans (jackets Protected ...
Chains And Chain Making
Chains And Chain Making. A Chain Consists Of A Series Of Similar Links Which Either Interlock Or Are Joined To Each Other So That They Form A Continuous Flexible Metal Line. The Chain Is One Of The Most Familiar As Well As One Of The Most Useful Of Mechanical Devices. ...
Chair
Chair, As Article Of Domestic Furniture; A Movable Seat Having Four Legs, A Back And Sometimes Arms; Usually For The Accommoda Tion Of One Person. Chairs Were Much Less Common, Both With The Ancients And In The Middle Ages, Than They Are In Modern Times; Hence The Reason Why Chair ...
Chalcedon
Chalcedon, K5.1-se'don, A City Of An Cient Bithynia, Opposite Byzantium, At The En Trance Of The Euxine, About Two Miles South Of The Present Site Of Scutari. Chalcedon Is Said To Have Been Founded Before Byzantium, About 677 S.c. By A Colony From Megara. It Flourished In Trade And Finally ...
Chalcis
Chalcis, Icarsis, Greece, Town And Capital Of The Island Of Negropont Or Eubcea, At The Junction Of The Talanta And Egripos Channels. The Latter Is Narrowed To 85 Feet At Chalcis By A Rock, Surmounted By A Castle, Partly Of Ve Netian, Partly Of Turkish, Origin. A Stone Bridge Crosses ...
Chaldee
Chaldee, Icirde, Language, A Form Or Dialect Of The Babylonian And Also Of The Aramean, One Of The Three Principal Varieties Of The Ancient Semitic. The Region Called In Scripture Aram May Be Described Generally As Occupying The Northern And Northeastern Divi Sions Of That Corner Of Asia Which Was ...
Chalice
Chalice. The Ecclesiastical Cup In Which The Consecrated Wine Is Administered At The Ceremony Of Sacrament. The Early Christians Used Plain Glass Chalices At First, Then They Be Came Decorated With Goldleaf. Wood Is Said By Some To Have Been The Very First Material Used. With The Advance From Severe ...
Chalk
Chalk. In Geology Chalk Is A Soft, Friable, Finely Granular Variety Of Limestone Or Car Bonate Of Lime, And May In Color Range From Pure White To Grayish Or Buff. It Is A Marine Deposit, Composed Principally Of The Shells Of Foraminifera. In The United States Are Some Great Beds ...
Challenge
Challenge, Originally, An Accusation, Charge Or Claim. A Challenge To Jurors Is An Objection Either To The Whole Panel Or Array, That Is, The Whole Body Of Jurors Returned, Or To The Polls, That Is, To The Jurors Individually; And It Is Either Peremptory, That Is, Without Assigning Any Reason, ...
Challoner
Challoner, Richard, English Roman Catholic Bishop: B. Lewes, England, 29 Sept. 1691; D. London, 12 Jan. 1781. His Parents Were Protestant Dissenters From The Established Religion Of England. After The Death Of His Father Young Challoner Came Under Other In Fluences And Was Received Into The Catholic Church. At The ...
Chalmers
Chalmers, George, Scottish Antiquary: B. Fochabers, Elginshire, 1742; D. 31 May 1825. Having Studied Law At Edinburgh, He Removed To America In 1763, Where He Practised That Profession For Upward Of 10 Years, Till The Colonies Declared Themselves Independent. Being A Keen Loyalist, Returned To Great Britain, Where He Was ...
Chalmers
Chalmers, Thomas, Scottish Theolo Gian: B. Anstruther Easter, Fifeshire, 17 March 1780; D. Edinburgh, 30 At The Age Of 12 He Was Sent To The 'university Of Saint Andrews, For The Purpose Of Studying For The Church, And After Passing Through A Curriculum There Seven Years, Was Licensed As A ...
Chalons Sur Marne
Chalons-sur-marne, Sha-lefi Siir Marn, France, A City And Capital Of The Depart Ment Of Marne (champagne), 107 Miles East Of Paris. It Lies Principally On The Right Bank Of The Marne, Here Crossed By A Stone Bridge Of Three Arches, Built In 1787. Low Walls Now Supply The Place Of ...
Chalybeate
Chalybeate, Ka-lib'e-at, Waters, Those Which Contain Salts Of Iron In Sufficient Quantity To Give Them A Special Value In The Treatment Of Cases Of Anaemia, Etc. Iron Or Steel Waters Are Not The Only Mineral Waters In Which Some Form Of Iron Is Found. Indeed In Nearly All This Ingredient ...
Chamber Music
Chamber Music. The Name Given To Music Particularly Designed For Performance In A Room Or Small Hall With Few Performers, As Contrasted With Music Requiring Many Perform Ers And Given On A Stage In A Larger Hall, Or In The Opera-house. It Is Generally, Though It Was Not Formerly, Applied ...
Chamberlain
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, American Soldier And Educator: B. Brewer, Me., 8 Sept. 1828; D. 24 Feb. 1914; Graduated Bow Doin College 1852 And Bangor Theological Sem Inary 1855; Received The Honorary Degree Of Ll.d., Pennsylvania College, 1866, And From Bowdoin College 1869; Professor Of Rhetoric And Oratory, Bowdoin, 1856, And ...
Chamberlain
Chamberlain, Joseph, English States Man: B. London, 8 July 1836; D. Birmingham, 2 July 1914. He Was For A Time At University College School, London, And In 1854 He En Tered Into Partnership With His Cousin, Joseph Nettlefold, As A Screw Manufacturer In Bir Mingham—a Business In Which His Father ...
Chamberlain_2
Chamberlain (germ. Kammerherr; Ital. Camorlingo), Court Officer, Originally Em Ployed, As The Name Indicates, To Take Charge Either Of The Private Apartments Of A Prince, Or Of A Treasury, Called In The 10th Century Camera (whence The Word Chamber). The Gold En Key, Which Is Worn By The Chamberlains Of ...
Chambers
Chambers, Robert William, American Artist And Novelist: B. Brooklyn, N. Y., 26 May 1865. He Began His Career As An Artist After Studying At The Julian Academy, Paris, And Be Came An Illustrator For Various New York Weeklies; But He Soon Abandoned This For The Literary Field In Which He ...
Chambers Of Commerce
Chambers Of Commerce, Associa Tions Formed By Tradesmen And Merchants For The Purpose Of Protecting And Furthering The Commercial Interests Of The Community To Which The Chamber Belongs. In America And England The Chambers Of Commerce Are Volun Tary Associations With No Recognized Official Functions. In Continental Europe Chambers Of ...
Chambersburg
Chambersburg, Pa., Borough And County-seat Of Franklin County, On The Cone Cocheague And Falling Creeks And The Cum Berland Valley And Western Maryland And The Philadelphia And Reading Railroads, 49 Miles West-southwest Of Harrisburg. In Early's Raid In The Civil War General Mccausland Entered Chambersburg With Confederate Cavalry, 30 July ...
Chameleon
Chameleon, Ka-mel'yun Or Ka-me'le-on, Lizard Belonging To The Family Chamceleontida% The Chameleons Are Generally Considered As Constituting A Sub-order Or Equivalent Primary Division Of The Lacertilia (q.v.). All Parts Of Their Anatomy Present Striking Peculiarities. The Parietal And Squamosal Bones Of The Skull Form A Bony Tripod Which Supports The ...
Chamfort
Chamfort, Shan'for, Nicolas, French Revolutionist: B. Auvergne 1741; D. 1794. He Left School To Become An Abbe, But Refused A Benefice. For A Time, His Efforts To Publish His Works Were Unsuccessful. He Finally Made His Debut As A Litterateur Under The Name Of Chamfort, And Obtained Some Suc Cess ...
Chamisso
Chamisso, Shi-mes's6, Adelbert De (properly Louis Charles Adelaide De Chamisso De Boncourt), German Poet And Naturalist: B. At The Castle Of Boncourt, Champagne, 27 Jan. 1781- D. Berlin, 21 Aug. 1838. When A Boy His Family Were Driven By The Breaking Out Of The Revolution To Seek An Asylum In ...
Chamois
Chamois, Sham-wa Or Shami, A Horned Animal (rupicapra Traps) Classed Among The Goat-antelopes, And Native To The Mountains Of Middle And Southern Europe From The Pyrenees To The Caucasus And Georgian Mountains, And As Far East As Persia. The Chamois Found In The Pyrenees And In The Caucasus Differ In ...
Chamouni
Chamouni, Shi-moo-ne, Or Cha Monix, Sha-mo-ne, Derived From Champs Munis Or Lat. Campus Munitus, Fortified Grounds, In Allusion To The Natural Mountain Fortifica Tions, A Celebrated Valley Of Southeastern France, In The Department Of Haute-savoy, In The Pennine Alps, Fully 3,000 Feet Above Sea Level. It Is About 12 Miles ...
Champagne
Champagne, A French Wine Made Chiefly In The Department Of The Marne, In The Former Province Of Champagne. It Is Com Monly Divided Into River And Mountain Wines (vies De La Rivilre De Manse, And Vises De La Montagne De Rheims), The Former Being For The Most Part White, The ...
Champion
Champion, One Who Undertakes To De Fend, In Combat Or Ny Argument, Another Per Son, A Doctrine Or A Cause. In The Rudest State Of Society Men Avenge Their Own Wrongs With Out Restraint. The First Step Commonly Made Toward A Better State Of Things In The Rude Be Ginnings ...
Champions Hill
Champion's Hill, Battle Of. On 30 April 1864, General Grant Crossed To The East Side Of The Mississippi River At Bruinsburg, 32 Miles In A Direct Line Below Vicksburg. On 1 May He Marched To Port Gibson, Defeating A Confederate Force Under Gen. J. S. Bowen. This Turned The Position ...
Champlain
Champlain, Shin-plan Or De, French Navigator, Colonizer And Soldier: B. Brouage, Saintonge, About 1570; D. Quebec, 25 Dec. 1635. In Early Life He Served In The Army Of Henri Iv, As Quartermaster Of Cavalry, But In January 1599 He Sailed As Captain Of The Saint Julien To The West Indies, ...
Champlain_2
Champlain, Lake, A Body Of Water Chiefly In The United States, Between The States Of New York And Vermont, But Having Its Northern End Six Miles Within The Canadian Boundary, In The Province Of Quebec. Its Ex Treme Length, North To South, Is About 125 Miles; Breadth, From Half A ...
Champlain_3
Champlain, Lake, Battle Of, In The War Of 1812. During 1812 And 1813 No Im Portant Naval Operations Had Taken Place On Lake Champlain. On 3 June 1813 The British Cleared The Lake Of The Few Small American Vessels, And Captured The Commander, Where Upon Lieut. Thomas Macdonough (q.v.) Was ...
Champollion
Champollion, Shaft Pol Yon, Jean Francois, Le Jeune, French Egyptologist : B. Figeac, Lot, France, 23 Dec. 1790; D. Paris, 4 March 1832. At An Early Age He Devoted Himself To The Study Of Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Etc. In 1807 He Read A Paper Before The Acad Emy Of Grenoble ...
Chancellor
Chancellor, An Officer Supposed To Have Been Originally A Notary Or Scribe, Under The Roman Emperors And Named Cancellarius, Because He Sat Behind A Lattice — Called In Latin Cancelli — To Avoid Being Crowded By The Peo Ple. There Are, However, Other Derivations Of This Title. Whatever May Have ...
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville, The Battle Of. The Chancellorsville Campaign Included The Bat Tle Of Chancellorsville, 1-3 May 1863, The Action At Marye's Heights, 3 May 1863, And The En Gagement At Salem Church, 3 And 4 May 1863. In The Fore Part Of April 1863 The Army Of The Potomac, Under General ...
Chancery
Chancery, Formerly. The Highest Court Of Justice In. England, Now Consolidated With The Other Superior Courts In The Supreme Court Of Judicature. The Court Of Chancery Obtained Its Name From Being Under The Jurisdiction Of The Lord Chancellor And Its Purpose Was Never More Succinctly Expressed Than In Cowel And ...
Chandelier
Chandelier. An Apparatus Suspended From The Ceiling Or Vault And Supporting Two Or More Lighting Units. Usually, In Modern Times, The Lights Are Supported On Arms Or Branches Radiating From A Central Shaft. The Chandelier May Be Said To Have Originated In The Ancient Suspended Oil Lamp (lychnus) Of Several ...
Chandler
Chandler, Zachariah, American Mer Chant And Statesman: B. Bedford, N. H., 10 Dec. 1813; D. 1 Nov. 1879. He Received A Com Mon School Education, And Early In Life Went To I Detroit, And Engaged In The Dry Goods Business, In Which His Energy And Ability Soon Brought Success And ...
Chaney
Chaney, Lucian West, American Biol Ogist: B. Heuvelton, N. Y., 26 June 1857. He Was Graduated At Carleton College In 1878. He Spent Three Years As High School Principal And Superintendent Of Schools At Faribault And Glencoe, Minn., And In 1882 Was Appointed In Structor In Biology At Carleton College ...
Change Of Function
Change Of Function. During The Metamorphosis Of Insects, Crustacea, And Other Animals, Organs At First Adapted For Certain Uses Become, With Change Of Conditions Of Life, Media, And Consequently Of Habits, Adapted To Quite Dif Ferent Uses Or Functions. Thus In The Young Larva (nauplius) Of Many Of The Lower ...
Channel Islands
Channel Islands, A Group Of Islands In The English Channel Belonging To Great Britain, Off The West Coast Of The Department La Manche, In France. The Islands Lie 10 To 30 Miles Distant From The Normandy Coast And 50 To 120 Miles South Of The English Coast. They Consist Of ...
Channing
Channing, Edward Tyrrel, American Scholar: B. Newport, R. I., 12 Dec. 1790; D. Cambridge, Mass., 8 Feb. 1856. He Was A Brother Of William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 (q.v.). He Studied Law With His Elder Brother, Francis Dana Channing, In Boston, And Was Admitted To The Bar. He Gave His Attention ...
Channing_2
Channing, William Ellery, American Unitarian Clergyman: B. Newport, R. I., 7 April 1780; D. Bennington, Vt., 2 Oct. 1842. Enter Ing Harvard College At 14 He Took His Degree In 1798 And Though At First Inclining To The Study Of Medicine, Presently Decided Upon The Profes Sion Of The Ministry. ...
Chanson De Roland
Chanson De Roland, The Culmina Tion Of A Cycle Of 'chansons De Geste' Or
Chant
Chant, A Short Musical Composition Adapted To The Singing Of The Psalms And Canti Cles. Chants Are Single When Adapted To A Single Verse, And Double When Adapted To Two Verses, The Former Consisting Of Two Strains Of Three And Four Bars Respectively, And The Latter Being Twice That Length. ...
Chantecler
Chantecler, Shin-v.-icier'. The Most Original Play Of Edmond Rostand, Although By No Means His Best, Is (chantecler,' Produced In 1910. The Public, Which Had First Been Captivated By The Dashing 'cyrano De Bergerac,' And Then Charmed By The More Ambitious (l'aiglon,' Had For A Decade Yearned For Another Piece From ...
Chantilly
Chantilly, Shan-tilli, Or Ox Hill, Battle Of. On 31 Aug. 1862, The Day After The Second Battle Of Bull Run, General Lee Marched His Army By Way Of Sudley Ford Around Pope's Right At Centreville, To Seize Fairfax Court House And Interpose Between Pope And Wash Ington; And At Night ...
Chantrey
Chantrey, Chadtri, Sir Francis Legatt, English Sculptor : B. Jordanthorpe, Derbyshire, 7 April 1781; D. 25 Nov. 1841. The Chief Amusement Of His Boyhood Was In Modeling Figures In Clay And Drawing Likenesses And At His Own Request He Was Apprenticed In 1797 To A Carver And Gilder At Sheffield. ...
Chanzy
Chanzy, Antoine Engine Al Fred, French General And Politician: B. Nouart, Ardennes, 18 March 1823; D. Chilons-sur Marne, 4 Jan. 1883. After A Course At The Military School Of Saint-cyr, He Became Sub Lieutenant Of Infantry In 1843, And Was Sent To Algeria And Eventually Became Major. He Sub Sequently ...
Chaos
Chaos, According To The Signification Of The Word, The Void Which Embraces All Things. Hesiod Mentions, As The Original Principles Of All Things, Chaos, Earth And Eros (love) ; Other Ancient Poets Made Chaos Alone The Pri Mwval Source From Which Everything Is Derived; Others Added To It Night, Erebus ...
Chapelain
Chapelain, Shap-life, Jean, French Poet, One Of The Earliest Members Of The French Academy; B. Paris, 4 Dec. 1595; D. There, 22 Feb. 1674. Having Gained A High Literary Reputation, After Writing A Preface For Marine's 'adone,) Translating Aleman's 'guzman De And Composing Four Odes, He Conceived The Project Of ...
Chapman
Chapman, George, English Poet, The Earliest And Perhaps The Best Translator Of Homer: B. About 1559; D. London, 12 May 1634. He Is Supposed To Have Been Educated At Ox Ford 1576, Proceeded To London, Where He Made The Friendship Of Shakespeare, Spenser, Mar Lowe And Other Distinguished Writers Of ...
Chapmans Homer
Chapman's Homer. George Chap Man (1559-1634), Writer Of Plays And Contem Porary Of Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson And Shakespeare, Was A Great Translator In The Great Age Of Translations That Brought Forth The English Bible And So Many Versions And Adaptations Of The Ancient Classics. He Pub Lished Seven Books Of ...
Chaptal
Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude, Comte De Ch Anteloup, French Chemist And Statesman: B. Nogaret, Lozere, 4 June 1756; D. Paris, 30 July 1832. During His Medical Studies And Practice He Devoted Much Research To The Science Of Chemistry, In Which He Soon Became Eminent, And Was Appointed Professor At Mont ...
Chapter
Chapter • (latin Caput, Head), One Of The Chief Divisions Of A Book. As The Rules And Statutes Of Ecclesiastical Establishments Were Arranged In Chapters, So Also The Assembly Of The Members Of A Religious Order, And Of Canons, Was Called A Chapter, Because Some Or All Of The Chapters ...