Orlando Di Orlandus Las
Lasso, Orlando Di (orlandus Las St I 520-94). A Celebrated Composer. Born At Mons, In Hainault. After Having Been A Choir Boy In The Church Of Saint Nicholas At Mons, He Was Taken In 1532. As A Prot(•gif Of The Viceroy Of Sicily. To Sicily And Milan. In 153s He ...
Oscan
Oscan. Oscan Was Spoken By The Samnites, Including The Frentani, Hirpini, And Campani, And Also In Northwestern Apulia, As Well :is In Lueania, Bruttium, And Messana In Sicily. 'these: Sainnites, In The Fifth Century N.c., Usurped Not Only The Territory But The Name Of The Osci• Who Had Dwelt In ...
Other Langurs
Other Langurs. The Foregoing Species Form A Group Agreeing In The Fact That The Hair Upon The Forehead Radiates Forward From A Central Point. The Negro Monkey Or `budeng' (semnapitheeus Maurus) Is A Well-known Type Of A Group Char Acterized By The Fact That The Projecting Hairs Of The Forehead ...
Otiier American Jays
Otiier American Jays. Several Other Species Of Jay Occur In North America. Variously Sub Divided By Ornithologists Into N Dozen Or More Subspecies. One Of The Most Distinct And Easily Recognized Species Is The Canada Jay, 'whisky Jack,' Or `moose-bird' (prrisorcus ('anadensis), One Of The Best-known Birth Of Canada And ...
Painting And Engraving
Painting And Engraving. The Knowl Edge Of Natural Form Shown In These Deco Rative Designs Was Also Shown, And Even More Plainly, In The Books Of, Patterns And Again In The Books Of Legendary Or Popular Story. Little Books Filled With Prints In Outline, Or Nearly So, Or Again Nvith ...
Petrus Jacobus 1831 1900joubert
Joubert, Petrus Jacobus ( 1831-1900). A Boer General And Politician. 11e Was Born In The Ondsthoorn District Of Cape Colony, Of Dutch Huguenot Parents, His French Ancestor, .joubert, Having Emigrated To South Africa In 1687, To Es Cape Religious Persecution In France. After An Elementary Education And A Youth Spent ...
Philip 1815 62 Kearny
Kearny, Philip (1815-62). An American Soldier, Prominent In The Mexican And Civil Wars, The Nephew Of Gen. Stephen W. Kearny. He Was Horn In New York City, Graduated At Columbia In B33. And Subsequently Studied Law Under Peter A. .lay. In 1837 He Entered The United States Army As Lieutenant ...
Phonetic Character
Phonetic Character. English K Is A Voice Less Half-guttural Explosive Made By A Closure Part Way Between The Back Of The Tongue And The Roof Of The Mouth, Or Between The Hard And Soft Palate, Tending Rather Toward The Front Than The Back Of The Mouth In Present English Pronunciation. ...
Physical Laboratories
Physical Laboratories. Specially Equipped For Physical Experimentation Were Not Provided Until Long After Well-organized Chemical Laboratories Were In Use. Such Early Experi Menters As Boyle. Newton. And Franklin Made Use Of Their Own Living Apartments For Their Ex Periments, And It Was Not Until Well Into The Nineteenth Century That ...
Pierre Laplace
Laplace, Pierre Flion, Marquis De E 1749 1s271. The Greatest Of The French Astrono Mers. Lie Was Born At Beaumont-en-.auge (calvados). His Father, A Poor Farmer. Was Unable To Give Him Any Educational Advan Tages, But, Probably Through The Generosity Of Friends, He Was Able To Carry On His Studies ...
Point Lace
Point Lace. During The Sixteenth Century It Was Often A Difficult Matter For Ladies To Secure Patterns For The Various Forms Of Embroidery. Often These Were Drawn On Parchment Or Copied. On Samplers Which Were Passed From Hand To Hand. Probably The First Printed Pattern-book Was Published By Pierre Quinty, ...
Population
Population. The Population By Decades Is As Follows: 1860, 107,206; 1870, 364.399; 1880, 996.096; 1s90, 1,427,006; 1900, 1,470,495. In The Last Decade Of The Century The State Fell From 19 To 22 In Rank. The Gain In That Decade Amounted To Only 2 Per Cent., As Compared With 20.7 Per ...
Population
Population. The First Really Reliable Census Of The Whole Country Was Taken In 1872. This Showed 7,107,841 Houses, And A Total Population Of 33,110.825—very Nearly That Of The Main Island At The Present Time. Al The End Of 1898 The Number Of Houses (including A Slight Gain Through The Annexation ...
Power Of The Keys
Keys, Power Of The (lat. Clarion Pot Estas). A Theological Term Which Denotes The Supreme Authority Of The Church. It Is Prominently Repre Sented By Two Golden Keys In The Insignia Of The Pope, Considered As The Successor Of Saint Peter, To Whom Christ Said: "i Will Give Unto Thee ...
Preston 1806 65 King
King, Preston ( 1806-65). An American Po Litical Leader And Legislator, Born In Ogdensburg, N. Y. Ile Graduated At Union College In 1827, Studied Law, Was Admitted To The Bar, And Began Practice In Saint Lawrence County. In 1530 Lie Founded And Became Editor Of The Saint Lawrence Republican, Which ...
Prophecy Teuch
Teuch, Prophecy, Etc. It Will Iims Be Seen That The Ancient- Hebrew Literature Bridges The Transition From The Old Liebrew Religion To Judaism In The Proper Sense Of The Term. The Line Between Hebrew And •ew Ish Literature Is 110i Sharply Drawn. Much That Is Included In The Old Testament ...
Psychological Laboratories
Psychological Laboratories. The First Lab Oratory For The Pursuit Of Researches In Psycho Physics And Experimental Psychology (qq.v.) Was Founded By 'wilhelm Wundt At Leipzig In 1879. Laboratories Have Now Been Established At Most Of The Leading German Universities. The First Laboratory In The States Was Found Ed At The ...
Religion
Religion. The Great Bulk Of The Inhabitants Of Italy Belong To The Roman Catholic Church. Especial Prominence Attaches To The Church In Italy From The Fact That The Seat Of The Central Administration Of The Church Is In Rome. The Welfare And Harmony Of The Church, However. Suffered Greatly Through ...
Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle
La Salle, Rene-robert Cavelier, Simi. De (1643-s7). The Discoverer Of The Ohio, And The First Explorer Of The Greater Part Of The Mississip Pi River. Ile Was A Member Of A Wealthy Mer Chant Family Of Itouen„ And When Twenty-three Emigrated To Canada, Where The Superior Of The Seminary Of ...
Reppel
Rep'pel, Aucusrus, Viscount (1725-86). An English Admiral, The Son Of William, Second Earl Of Albemarle, And Grandson Of Arnold Jnost Van Koppel, First Earl Of Albemarle, A Dutch General In The Suite Of William Of Orange When He Came To England In 1688. He Was Educated At Westminster School. And ...
Reverdy 1796 1876 Johnson
Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876). An Ameri Can Jurist, Born At Annapolis. Md., May 21, 1796. He Was A Son Of John Johnson, Himself An Emi Nent Lawyer, Who Became Chancellor Of Maryland. Reverdy Was Educated At Saint John's College At Annapolis. Studied Law In His Father's Office, And In 1815 Was ...
Richard Mentor 1780 1850johnson
Johnson, Richard Mentor ( 1780-1850 ) . An American Legislator And Politician. Vice-presi Dent Of The United States In 1837-41. He Was Born At Bryant's Station. Ky.: Was Educated At Transylvania University. Studied Law And Began Practice At Grand Crossings In That State. His Political Career Began In 1805 With ...
Richard W 1s27 97johnson
Johnson, Richard W. ( 1s27-97 ) . An American Soldier. Born In Kentucky. He Grad Uated At West Point In 1849, And Up To The Time Of The Civil War Was Employed Chiefly On Frontier Service. In 1861 He Was Commissioned Colonel Of The Third Kentucky Cavalry, And Soon Afterwards ...
Rloz Klotz
Klotz, Rloz, Or Clotz, Matthias (1640 96). A Well-known Bavarian Violin-maker, And Head Of The Celebrated Family Of Violin-makers Of That Name. He Was Born At Mittenwald And Was Probably A Pupil Of Jakob Stainer (q.v.). Al Though He Was The Maker Of Several Very Excellent Specimens, He Did Not ...
Robert Koch
Koch, Robert (1843—). A German Physi Cian And Bacteriologist, Born At Clausthal, Han Over. He Studied Medicine At 06ttingen; Then Practiced Medicine In Lang,enhagen, Raekwitz, And Wollstein. It Was At \vollstein, From 1872 To 1880, That He Began The Researches In Bac Teriology Upon Which His Fame Chiefly Rests. Koch's ...
Roman
Roman. Jupiter, Under Various Forms Of The Name, Was Worshiped Throughont All Italy. And His Posit As God Of The Heavens Is Made Even Plainer By The Epithet Lueetins, `bringer Of Light.' In The Hymn Of The Salii. This Aspect Of The God Is Obvious In The Earlier Forms Of ...
Rufus 1755 1827 King
King, Rufus (1755-1827). An American Po Litical Leader, Born March 24, 1753, At Scar Borough. Maine. Ile Graduated At Harvard In 1777, Read Law With Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, And Was Admitted To The Bar In 1780, His Studies Being Interrupted For A Brief Period In 1778, When He Served ...
Sacred 11 Anu Man
11 Anu Man, Sacred, Or Entellus M Onkey.— The Typical And Most Familiar Of These Monkeys Is The Hanuman ( Scm7lopitheens Entellus), To Which The Native Name 'langur' Originally Applied. Its Proper Home Is In The Northern Half Of Penin Sular India—the Valley Of The Ganges And Thence To Bombay. ...
Samuel 1741 180s Kirkland
Kirkland, Samuel ( 1741-180s ) . An American Missionary To The Iroquois Indians. Born At Norwich, Conn. He Studied At Prince Ton, And Received His Degree In 1763. Though He Had Left College The Previous Autumn To Visit The Senecas And Learn Their Language. After Living Among Them For A ...
Samvel 1709 84 Johnson
Johnson, Samvel (1709-84). An English Lexicographer, Essayist, And Critic. He Was Born At Lichfield. September 18, 1700, The Son Of Michael Johnson, A Bookseller. He Was Sent To A Dame-school, From Which He Passed To The Lichfield Grammar School, Where He Learned Latin, And Then Attended For A Few Months ...
Sein
Sein, A City Of Asiatic Tur Key, In The Vilayet Of Bagdad, About 55 Miles Southwest Of The City Of Bagdad. Not Far From The Euphrates, With Which It Is Connected By The Ancient Ilamadiyyah Grand Canal, Which Drains A Marshy Region. Ilosein, Son Of The Caliph Ali, While Attempting ...
Shipping And Navigation
Shipping And Navigation. Italy Has A Large And Active Merchant Marine. In 1900 It Num Bered 409 Steamers Of 315.000 Tons Capacity. And 5665 Sailing Vessels Of 555.000 Tons. The Ton Nage Of Sailing Vessels Is On The Decrease, While The Steam Tonnage Is Increasing, As Is Shown By The ...
Sicily Papal States
Sicily ; Papal States.) The Repeated Invasions Of The Barbarians Into Italy Dur Ing The Fifth Century. Ninny Portions Of The Country Had Been Depopulated And Government Had Become Very Weak. The Old Free Population Had Long Since Disappeared, And The Land Was Chiefly In The Hands Of Powerful Nobles, ...
Sidney 1842 81 Lanier
Lanier, Sidney (1842-81). An American Musician And Poet, Born At Macon. Ga. February 3. 1842. He Died At Lynn, N. C., September 7, 1881. Ile Was Of Huguenot Stock, And Inherited Great Musical Ability. His Education Was Obtained At Oglethorpe College, Georgia, Where He Gradu Ated And Served As Tutor ...
Species
Species. The Best Known Species Of Kangaroo Is The One To Which Reference Has Already Been Made, The Common Or Gray Kangaroo (marropus Piganteus), Also Called `boomer,' Forester,' And 'old Man.' It Is One Of The Largest Species, An Old Male, When Erect On His Hind Feet And Tail, Standing ...
Stanislas Aignan 1799 1873julien
Julien, Stanislas Aignan ( 1799-1873). A Noted French Savant Who. Though Lie Never Set Foot In China, Became The Foremost Sinologist Of His Day. Lie Was Horn At Orleans. Lie Early Showed Marked Ability For The Acquisition Of Languages. In 1821 He Became Assistant Pro Fessor Of Greek In The ...
Staxislaus Kalckreuth
Kalckreuth, Staxislaus, Count ( 1821 94). A German Painter, Born At Kozmin (posen). From 1840 To 1845 He Was A Lieu Tenant In The First Guards Regiment, Stationed At Potsdam, Where He Was A Pupil Of Wegener. He Then Resigned From The Service, And Studied Under Krause In Berlin And ...
Stephen Langton
Lang'ton, Stephen ( ?-1228). Archbishop Of Canterbury From 1207 To 1228. Langton Was Undoubtedly An Englishman, But. He Received The Chief Part Of His Education In Paris. After Inno Cent 111. Became Pope, He Summoned, Langton To Rome And Made Him A Cardinal. In 1205 There Was A Disputed Election ...
Stock Breeding
Stock-breeding. This Industry Is In A Back Ward State. The Only Branch That May He Said To Be Carried On In A Rational Way Is The Of Horses And Horned Cattle In The Northern Part Of The Country. The Exports Of Horses, Cattle. Sheep, And Swine, Though Small, Exceed The ...
Stock Raising
Stock-raising. The Raising Of Such Enormous Crops Of Corn And Other Stock Feed Has Resulted In The Development Of A Large Stock-raising In Dustry. In General The Greatest Development Was That Between 1880 And 1s90, Although The Follow Ing Decade Witnessed A Very Remarkable Gain In The Number Of Neat ...
Sylvester 1813 53 Judd
Judd, Sylvester ( 1813-53 ) . An American Clergyman And Author, Born At Westhampton, Mass.. July 23, 1813; Died At Augusta. Me., Jan Uary 26. 1853: A Son Of Sylvester Judd (1780 1860). The Antiquary. Judd, Who Was Brought Up In The Orthodox Faith Of New England. Was Sent To ...
The Game
The Game. The Erosse Is A Light Stick 5 Or Feet Long, Crooked At The End So As To Allow A Loose Network Of Eat-gut Or Deerskin To Be Stretched Aeross—not So Tightly As In A Tennis Racquet, Nor So Loosely As To Form A Bag. The Ball, Inches In ...
The Second And Third
The Second And Third Epistles. Unlike I. John, The Second And Third Epistles Have The Formal Address And Signature Of Ordinary Let Ters. The Second Is Addressed To The 'elect Lady And Her Children.' It Is A Question Whether This Designation Indicates A Person Or A Church. If The Statement ...
Thomas 1743 1s21jefferson
Jefferson, Thomas ( 1743- 1s2(1) . Author Of The Declaration Of Independence. And Third President Of The United States. Born In Albemarle County. Va.. April 2. O. S. (april 13, N. S.). 1743. Ilis Father Was Peter .lefferson. A Man Of Some Prominence In His Community; His Mother Was Jane ...
Thomas Ap Catesby 1787 1858
Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby 1787-1858). An American Naval Officer, Born In Virginia. He -entered The Navy In 1805, And Three Years Later Was Sent To The Gulf Of Mexico, Where He Wa-s Engaged Until The Outbreak Of The War Of 1312 In Suppressing Piracy, Smuggling, And The Slave Trade. He ...
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan. Generally Known As Stmaarall Jacksoul (1824-63). A Fa Mous American Soldier, Horn 'january 21, 1824, Of Scoteh-lrish-english Stock, At Clarksburg In Western Virginia (now West Virginia). At An Early Age He Was Left To The Care Of An Uncle, A Farmer And Miller, Under Whom He Was ...
Tienja In 71s S3kennicott
Ken'nicott, Tienja In ( 71s-s3 ) . An Eminent. Biblical Scholar. Ile Was Born At Totnes, Devonshire, April 4, 1715, And Educated At Ox Ford, Where He Highly Distinguished Himself. He Took His Degree Of M.a. In 1750. Having Been Pre Viously Elected A Fellow Of Exeter College; In 1767 ...
Tiie Ancient And City
Tiie Ancient And City. Of The History Of Jernsalem Up To The Time Of David Very Little Is Known. The Notices In The Tell El Amarna Letters And The Statement In Gen. Xiv. 18 Only Show That It Was A Place Of Some Impor Tance Long Before The Hebrew Occupation. ...
Tile Written Forms
Tile Written Forms. The Lan Guage Differs In Grammatical Forms And In Vocab Ulary In Its Spoken And Written Forms, Making A Twofold Series Of Grammars And Dictionaries Neces Sary. In The Written Language There Are Also Marked Distinctions. The Archaic. Classical, Sinieo Japanese.epistolary. Etc. The Oldest Specimens We Have ...
Topography
Topography. The Coast, Over 4000 Miles In Length (inclusive Of The Islands), Is Easily Ac Cessible From Every Part Of The Country. No Settlement Is Remote From Salt Water, Four-fifths Of The Kingdom Being Within 6 Miles Of The Sea. In The North Of The Adriatic The Coast Is Low ...
Topography_2
Topography. Japan Is A Land Of High Moun Tains And Deep Valleys, With Few Plains Of Any Extent. Its Scenery Is. In The Main, Pleasing Rather Than Grand Or Sublime, Rounded Heights Clad With Forests, Or With The Verdure Of A Re Markably Luxuriant Vegetation Predominating, Though A Large Number ...
Topography_3
Topography. Java Is Very Mountainous, And Is Remarkable For The Number Of Its Volcanic Peaks, 45 In All—ranging In Height From 2000 To 12,040 Feet Above The Level Of The Sea, Clad With Verdure To Their Summits, And Having Slopes Fertile In Nearly All Their Climatic Zones. The General Fiend ...
Topography_4
Topography. The Surface Is Mostly Comprised Within The Alleghany Plateau, And Has A Gentle Slope Westward And Northwestward To The Mis Sissippi And Ohio Rivers. Its Average Alti Tude Is About Soo Feet. In The Southeastern Part The Cumberland And Pine Mountain Ridges Of The Alleghanies Inelude The Highest Elevations ...
Topography_5
Topography. The Northern Half Of The Coun Try Is Very Mountainous And Well Wooded, With Peaks From 4000 To More Than S000 Feet In Height. The Main Axis Of Elevation, Which Forms The Great Backbone Of The Peninsula, Lies Along The Whole Eastern Seaboard. The Southern Half Is'some What Monotonous. ...
Transportation
Transportation. At The Close Of The Nine Teenth Century Italy Had A Railway System With A Total Length Of Nearly 10.000 Miles. The Mileage Is The Smallest Of Any Leading Country In Europe, And Is Less Per Square Mile Of Area Than Is Eom Mon In Western European Countries. As ...
Ttnivers Kansas
Kansas, T_tnivers= Or. A Coeducational State Institution At Lawrence, Kan., Established By Act Of The Legislature In 1864, And Opened In )866. During The First Few Years Of Its Existence Its Work Was Confined Almost Entirely To A Prepar Atory Department, The First College Class Graduat Ing In 1873. The ...
Tue City
Tue City. The Dome Of The Church Of Holy Sepulchre Is Located In Latitude 31° 40' 45" N., Longitude 35° 13' 25" E. The City Is Distant 33 Miles From The Mediter Ranean And 15 Miles From The Northern End Of The Dead Sea. It Is Situated On A Spur ...
Umbrian
Umbrian. The Remains Of Umbrian Are Of Far Greater Extent Than Those Of Any Other Non Latin Italic Dialect. Practically All The Texts In This Dialect Are Contained In The Iguvine Tablets, Discovered In 1444 At Gubbio, On The Site Of The Ancient Town Of Or, As It Was Called ...
Van Kessel
Kes'sel, Van. A Flemish Fatuity Of Paint Ers, All Born In Antwerp, The Earliest Of Whom Was Jenoom (157s-e.1(136), Portrait, Animal, And Still-life Painter, Pujiil Of Cornelis Nods. He Worked From About 1606 In Various Cities Of Ger Many (frankfort. Augsburg, Strassburg. And Co Logne), Chiefly Painting Portraits, And Before ...
Variation Of Latitude
Latitude, Variation Of. For Many Years It Has Been Suspected That Terrestrial Latitudes Might Be Subject To Small Changes, And That These Might Possibly Affect The Results, Of Ordinary Astronomical Observations. But In Spite Of All Efforts To Detect With Certainty The Existence Of Such Changes. It Was Not Until ...
Walter Savage 1775 1364landor
Lan'dor, Walter Savage ( 1775-1364) . An English Poet And Prose Writer. Son Of Walter Landor And Of Elizabeth Savage. Born At 1psley Court, Warwickshire, Jannary 30. 1775. As A Sturdy Boy Of Twelve He Was Sent To Rugby, Where Lie Distinguished Himself In Latin Verse. Owing To An Ungovernable ...
William Kidd
Kidd, William (e.1650-1701). A British Navigator. The Notorious Captain Kidd Of Piratical Fame. The Son Of A Scottish Nonconformist Min Ister. He Was Horn Probably At Greenock. Scot Land. About 1650. He Went To Sea At An Early Age, Became A Trader Out Of New York, And In The War ...
William Langland
Lang'land, William (c.1332-1400?). An English Poet, Born Probably About 1332 At Cleo Bury Mortimer, South Shropshire. Ile Seems To Have Studied With The Benedictine Monks At Great Malvern. He Became A Tonsured Clerk• And Early Drifted To London, Where Be Lived In Per Petual Poverty. Exercising Minor Funelions In The ...
William Rufus 1786 1853king
King, William Rufus ( 1786-1853 ) . An American Statesman. He Was Born In Sampson County, N. C., Graduated At The University Of North Carolina In 1803, And Studied Law At Fayetteville, Where Lie Was Admitted To The Bar In Bog. In The Same Year He Was Elected To The ...
William Stanley 1835 82 Jevons
Jev'ons, William Stanley (1835-82). An English Economist, Born In Liverpool. He Was A Grandson Of William Roscoe, The Eminent His Torian. Educated At University College, London, And Made A Fellow Of His College In 1862. He Held A Position In The Sydney (australia) Mint. 1854 59. In 1866 He. Received ...
Year Of Jubilee
Jubilee, Year Of. An Institution Ordained Tor The Hebrews In The So-called Code Of Holiness (lev. Xxv. 8-55), By Which Every Fiftieth Year (i.e. On The Completion Of Seven Sabbatical Years) The Land That In The Interval Had Passed Out Of The Po—ession Of Those To Whom It Originally Belonged ...