Greek Literature
Greek Literature Greek Literature May Be Conveniently Di Vided Into Four Periods, As Follows: (1) Ancient Or Classical, From Homer To Demosthenes (c. 700 To 300 A.c.); (2) Alexandrian, From 300 B.c. To The Subjugation Of Greece By Rome In 146 (3) Grmco-roman, From 146 A.c. To The Division Of ...
Imbroglio
Imbroglio). Before This, The Highest Candidate Was President And The Next Highest Vice President; But Now Came An Election Which Showed Not Merely The Possibility Of A Tie, But The Certainty Of One, Between The Two Candi Dates Of The Same Party From Mere Party Loyalty. Yet Plain As This ...
Lers Rebellion 1690
Ler's Rebellion. 1690. First Intercolonial War: King Wil Liam's War: Quebec.— War Between England And France Was Declared In 1689. The French In Canada Planned An Attack On Boston And New York. They Came Down From Canada With Indian Allies; Attacked Schenectady 8 Feb. 1690; Salmon Falls, 27 March; Horrible ...
List
List, A Term Signifying In The United States, (1) A List Of The Entire Expenses Of The Civil Government, (2) The Revenue Appropriated To Support Civil Government, (3) The Officers Of The Civil Government Who Are• Paid From The Public Treasury. In England The Meaning Of The Term For Merly ...
N Eth Wands
N Eth Wands. Great Britain.— No Colonizing Power Has Had A Career Of Such Uniform Prosperity As Great Britain. The Freedom Of Her Institutions And The Practical Enterprise And Self-reliance Of Her People Peculiarly Fitted Her For The Work Of Colonization And It Has Steadily Advanced With Her Equally In ...
N H Concord
Concord, N. H., City, Capital Of The State And County-seat Of Merrimack County, On The Merrimack River, And On The Boston & M. Railroad, 75 Miles Northwest Of Boston. The City Has An Abundance Of Water-power, And Manufactories Of Carriages, Shoes, Twine, Elec Trical Apparatus, Silverware, Leather Goods, Ma Chine-shop ...
Pamunkey And Totopotomoy
Pamunkey And Totopotomoy), Reaching Cold Harbor (q.v.) 2 June. On The 3d Grant As Saulted Along His Whole Line, To Meet In An Hour With Terrible Slaughter And Repulse, So Serious That An Order For A Second Assault Was Not Carried Out. Grant Had Failed To Interpose Between Lee And ...
Predisposing Causes Of Cleft
Predisposing Causes Of Cleft Palate. Heredity.—the Factor Of Heredity Is So Well Recognized That Reference To It Here Might Seem Unnecessary. In Many Cases The Physical Char Acteristics Of The Parents, Normal Or Abnormal, May Be Observed In Their Children. The Shape Of The Head, Nose, Eyes And Other Features ...
Raid From Chickasaw To
Raid From Chickasaw To Sf1.ma And Macon). His First Objective Was Selma, Ala. A Portion Of Forrest's Cavalry Was Encountered And Defeated At Montevallo 30 March. The Fortifi Cations Of Selma (q.v.) Were Carried Against Forrest 2 April, And Immense War Supplies And Plants For The Manufacture Of War Materials ...
Roman Literature
Roman Literature The Romans Were An Intensely Practical Peo Ple, Endowed With Less Imagination And Less Creative Power Than The Greeks, And Also Lacked Their Fine Feeling For The Beautiful. Hence Their Literature Does Not Have The Same Freshness And Originality, Though It Is Not Less Important, For Through Cicero ...
S C Columbia
Columbia, S. C., State Capital, And County-seat Of Richland County, Situated In The Centre Of The State, On The East Bank Of The Congaree River, At The Head Of Navigation, Two Miles Below The Junction Of The Broad And Saluda. It Is On The Atlantic Coast Line, The Seaboard Air ...
S H Ep H
S H Ep H Erdstow N ; S M It H Fl Eld ; Upequo_ni Lr's H Ii.l ; Cedar Creek ; Milford; Nineyeh. The First Movement Of The Final,campawns Of 1865 Began 2 January. In .tenriessee, When General Schofield With The Twenty-third Ccirps Left Columbia, Tenn., For,affton On The ...
Sanders Raid Into East
Sanders' Raid Into East Tennessee) . The Union Army Under Rosecrans Held The Line Of Stone's River, Headquarters At Murfreesboro; The Confederates Under General Bragg, The Gen Eral Line Of Duck River, With Headquarters At Tullahoma. By Feinting Against Bragg's Left At Shelbyville And Turning His Right, Both Flanks Being ...
Sion Secession In The
Sion; Secession In The United States. During The Autumn Of 1860 And The Early Spring Of 1861 The Forts, Arsenals, Custom Houses And Other Government Property In Those States, With Few Exceptions, Had Been Seized By State Troops, And Large Sums Were Voted For Arming The States, Georgia Leading In ...
Ture Latin
Ture; Latin Warrens; The Biographies Of The Classical Authors Mentioned; And The Articles Drama ; Literature ; Poetry. Bibliography.—greek Literature: Mahaffy, Classical Literature' (4 Vols., London, New York 1895) I Muller And Donaldson, History Of The Literature Of Ancient Greece' (3 Vols., London 1840); Jevons, (history Of Greek Literature> (new ...
United
United States—the Formation Of Srati Constitutions ; United States — State (on Stitutions Of The; Constitution, Framini Of The; Constitution Of The United Constitutional Amendments, History Sr; United States — The Federal Convention Of 1787. Constitutional Conventions Have Been Held A The Various States In The Following Years, Melt Of ...
United States Militaryeducation
Military Academy, United States ; Military Education ; Naval Academy, United States. These Are Generally Supplemented By Systems Of Examination Whereby Qualified Non-commis Sioned Officers Or Warrant Officers May Acquire Commissions. In Most European Armies Certain Social Or Financial Qualifications Are Required For Commissions. Up To 1871, When Gladstone Abolished ...
W Clarksburg
Clarksburg, W. Va., County-seat Of Harrison County, Situated In The North Central Part Of The State, On The West Fork River, A Branch Of The Monongahela, And On The Parkersburg Branch Of The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad, 22 Miles West Of Grafton. The Short Line, The Monongahela And The West ...
William F Osgood
William F. Osgood, Professor Of Mathematics, Harvard University. Complexion, The Term Generally Used To Signify The Special Color Or Hue Of A Person's Skin. The Human Skin, Till The Time Of Pighi, Was Supposed To Consist Only Of Two Parts — The Epidermis Or Outer Skin, And The Cuts Or ...
Or Ccecilian
Ccecilian, Or C/ecilian, Limbless Amphibians, Constituting A Family, Cmciiiide Or Ceciliide, And An Order Apoda Or Gymnophionia. They Are Remarkable For The Entire Absence Of Limbs, Even The Internal Limb Girdles Having Disappeared, And The Bony Roof To The Temporal Region Of The Skull. In The Lat Ter Feature They ...
Or Civic Drama Community
Community Drama, Or Civic Drama. This Is A Term That Has Recently Sprung Into Widespread Use To Embrace Various Kinds Of Performances, Generally More Or Less Dramatic In Form, But Sometimes Merely Pro Cessional And Picturesque, Presented By Large Bodies Of People (marching, Singing, Dancing, Acting And So Forth) In ...
Or Cocoanut Coconut
Coconut, Or Cocoanut, A Palm Tree (cocos Nucifero) Probably Native Of Tropical America, But Widely Distributed In Warm Countries Throughout The World. The Tree Grows Naturally. Upon Sandy Soil Bordering The Sea Or Not Far Inland Except Where Planted By Man. It Is Remarlcable As One Of The First Tree ...
Or Colleges For Teachers
Colleges For Teachers, Or Col Leges In Which Are Special Departments For The Study Of The History Of Education, Psychology As Applied To Teaching, Pedagogy, And All Subjects Bearing Upon Methods Of Instruction. To The English Schoolmaster, Richard Mul Caster, Is Given The Credit Of Being One Of The First, ...
Or Colorado Of The
Colorado River, Or Colorado Of The West, A Great River Of The United States And Mexico, Formed At About Lat. 38° N. And Long. 110° W., By The Junction Of The Green And Grand Rivers. The Green River Rises In The Rocicy Mountains In The West Of Wyom Ing, Receiving ...
Or Compound Colonial
Colonial, Or Compound, Ani Mals, Organisms Which Cannot Be Fairly Re Garded As Unities, But Consist Of Numerous More Or Less Similar Individuals United In A Common Life. Among The Usually Single-celled Simplest Animals Or Protozoa, Loose Colonies Not Infre Quently Occur, And Are Of Not A Little Importance As ...
Or Coniine Conia
Conia, Or Coniine (c.hribl), An Alkaloid In The Hemlock, Discovered In An Im Pure State By Giesecke In 1827, And Subsequently Prepared In The Pure State By Geiger, Who Recog Nized It As A Vegetable Base. It Exists, Combined With Malic Acid, In All Parts Of The Plant, But Especially ...
Or Continental Army Continentals
Continentals, Or Continental Army, The Army Of The United States During The Revolution. In May 1775, After The Battle Of Lexington, The Provincial Congress Of Massachusetts Requested The Continental Con Gress To Assume Control Of The Forces Which Had Gathered Around Boston. Further Outside Pres Sure Led The Latter Congress ...
Or Cooper Insti Tute
Cooper Union, Or Cooper Insti Tute, An Institute Founded In New York In 1854 By Peter Cooper. Its Object Is To Provide Free Schools Of Art And Science And Free Reading Rooms And Library For The Working Classes. The Founder Chose The Word °unions Because He Hoped That Other Liberal ...
Or Cordova C6rdoba
C6rdoba, Or Cordova, Argentine Republic, A Province Next In Size To That Of Buenos Aires, Bounded On The North By San Tiago Del Estero, On The East By Santa Fe, On The South By Buenos Aires And The Territorial Government Of Pampa Central, And On The West By The Provinces ...
Or Koppernigk Copernicus
Copernicus, Or Koppernigk, Nicolaus, Polish Astronomer: B. Thorn, Poland, 19 Feb. 1473; D. Frauenburg, East Prussia, 24 May 1543. His Father Was A Pole And His Mother A German. From A School At Thorn Copernicus Wtnt To Cracow,.where He Studied Medicine, Theology, Mathematics And Astronomy. The Fame Of Peurbach And ...
Or Oregon Columbia
Columbia, Or Oregon, After The Yukon, The Largest River On The Western Side Of America. It Rises In The Kootenay District Of British Columbia, On The Western Slope Of The Rocky Mountains, Near Mounts Brown And Hooker, In About Lat. 50° N. Its Course, Which Is Very Irregular, Is Generally ...
Or The Chocolate Tree
Cocoa, Or The Chocolate Tree: Derived From The Word Cacao, Which Has The Scientific Preference In English, From Mexican (aztec) Caucatl, Cacahuatl, Chocolatl (the Suffix "lad* Meaning Water). The Origin Of The Word Is In Doubt, Being By One Authority Ascribed To The Name Of The District — Choco Of ...