Fossil Snakes
Fossil Snakes. About Thirty-five Species Of Tertiary Fossil Snakes Are Known, And None Of Them Presents Any Wide Differences From Its Nearest Living Allies. They Occur Mostly In The Fresh-water Tertiary Deposits Of Germany, France, England, And North America. No Un Doubted Snake Remains Are Known Older Than The Tertiary. ...
France
France. The Socialist Party In France Did Not Gain Any Considerable Following Until After 1890. Its Late Appearance Is Doubtless Due To The Frequent Revolutions In That Country And Its Dis Ordered And Unsettled Condition, Which Rendered It More Favorable For Anarchistic And Revolu Tionary Movements. With The Firm Establish ...
Francis Richard 1834 1902 Stockton
Stockton, Francis Richard (1834-1902). A Popular American Writer Of Humorous Tales, Born In Philadelphia. In Early Life Be Was A Wood-engraver And Designer, In Which Capacity He Contributed Pictures To Periodicals. Mean While Lie Busied Himself Also With Literary And Journalist Le Work. Ile Was First Employed On The Philadelphia ...
General Staff Corps
General Staff Corps. Since The Passing Of The General Staff Bill, Which Was Approved On February 14, 1903, And Which Entered Into Legal Effect August 15 Of The Same Year, A General Staff Organization Has Been Instituted As Follows: The General Staff Corps Establishment Consists Of Officers Detailed From The ...
Geology
Geology. The Greater Part Of The Surface Is Covered With Recent Formatitill, Cretheemia Iu The East, But In The Main Tertiary. There Are, However, Numerous Outcrops And Soul).- Extensive Areas Of Ancient Rocks. Thus The Mountain Region From Spencer Gulf Northward Consists Mainly Of Silnrian Strata. Granite Erops Out In ...
Geology And Mineral Resources
Geology And Mineral Resources. Atc11t1111 Rocks Are Predominant, A Ml In Some Districts, Es Pecially Around The Great Lakes, They Are Over Laid By Cambrian And Silurian Formations. In Large Areas Also The Ancient Rocks Are Covered By Extensive Glacial Deposits Of Clay, Sand, Gravel, And Erratic Boulders. Triassie. Jurassic, ...
Geology And S1ineral Resources
Geology And S1ineral Resources. The Table Land Is A Very Ancient And Much Altered Block Of The Earth's Crust, Chiefly Composed Of Arch:dean And Paleozoic Rocks, For The Most Part Of Cam Brian, Silurian. And Devonian Formation. (hi The North And South Margins Of The Tableland Two Younger Land Masses ...
Geology_2
Geology. Although The Geological Structure Of The State Is Nearly Homogeneous Over The Greater Part Of Its Area, There Is Nevertheless Found Represented Every Age From The Archfean To The Pleistocene Except The Devonian. There Are Two Arch:can Nuclei, One In The East And One In The West. The Former ...
Geometrical Isomerism
Geometrical Isomerism. It May Be Seen From The Preceding Paragraphs That The Funda Mental Hypothesis Of Stereo-chemistry, Viz. That The Valencies Of A Carbon Atom Act Symmetrically Around It In Space. While Indispensable For Cor Relating Optical Isomers, Also Throws Additional Light On The Phenomena Of Chemical Isomerism Proper. Take, ...
George Smith
Smith, George An English Assyriologist, Born At Chelsea. He Was An En Graver By Trade. Becoming Interested In Assyri Ology, He Gave Much Of His Leisure Time And Spare Money To The Study, And Attracted The Favorable Notice Of Rawlinson. In 1866 He Discovered A Text Relating To The Tribute ...
George Stoneman
Stone'man, George ( ) . An Ameri Can Soldier Anti Governor Of California. He Was Born At Bush, Chautauqua County. N. Y., And Graduated At West Point In 1846. Just Before The Outbreak Of The Civil War He Was In Command Of Fort Brown In Texas, And Was Ordered By ...
Gerrit 1797 1874 Smith
Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874). An American Philanthropist. Son Of Peter Smith. Of Utica, N. Y.. Who, Associated In The Fur Trade W Ith John Jacob Astor, Accumulated A Great Fortune Which The Son Greatly Increased. Gerrit Graduated Fruin Hamilton College In Isis, And. Without Regularly Studying Law, Lie Entered Upon That ...
Gilbert 1755 182s Stuart
Stuart, Gilbert (1755-182s). An Ameri Can Portrait Painter. Ile Was Born At Narra Gansett. R. L, December 3, 1755. He Painted His First Portraits When Thirteen, Having Had No In Struction. In 1770 Lie Was Taught By A Scotsman, Cosmo Alexander, Who Took Him To England, But Upon Alexander's Death ...
Government
Government. The Present Constitution Of Spain Was Proclaimed June 30, 1576. It Declares The Government To Be A Constitutional Monarchy With The Executive Power Vested In The King. The King Is Fm-bidden To Alienate Or Exchange Span Ish Territory, Or To Admit Foreign Troops Into The Realm, Or To Make ...
Government
Government. Tile Constitution Of 1548, With The Important Revision Of 1s74 And Subsequent Amendments Of Lesser Importance, Constitutes The Present Fundamental Law Of Switzerland. (for The Methods Of Amending The Constitution, See Referendum.) The Swiss State Is Composed Of Twenty-two Cantons, With Bern As The Capital. The Constitution Vests The ...
Government_2
Government. Since 1s14 Sweden Has Been United With Norway Under A Common King. But Each Is In Effect A Separate Kingdom With Its Own Government. The Fundamental Laws Of Sweden Have Never Been Embodied In Any Single Written Constitution, But Consist Of Various Enactments Of The Diet From 1809 To ...
H Shamrock I
Shamrock I., H., And Iii. Three Racing Yachts Owned By Sir Thomas Lipton, Designed And Built To Compete For The America's Cup In The International Yacht Races Off Sandy Hook, N. Y. The First Xnamrock Competed In The 1809 Cup Races And Was Defeated By The American Yacht Columbia In ...
Harold Skimpole
Skim'pole, Harold. An Amateur Artist In Dickens's Bleak House, Plausible But Selfish, Who Lived On His Friends. He Was Supposed To Be A Portrait Of Leigh Ihint, But Dickens Emphatic Ally Denied Any Such Intention. Skin (icel. Skina: Connected With Ohg. Scin Tan, Seindan,((er. Schinden, To Flay ). Considered In ...
Harriet Eliza Beth Beech
Stowe, Harriet Eliza Beth ( Beech Er) ( 1s11-96). A Famous American Novelist, Born In Litchfield, Conn. She Was The Daughter Of The Rev. Lyman Beecher, And Sister Of Henry Ward Beecher. She Attended School At Litchfield Acad Emy And Later At Hartford. In 1832 Her Father Was Called To ...
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Stein
Stein, Heinrich -friedrich Karl, Baron Roar (1757-1831). A Prussian Statesman. He Belonged To An Old Franconian Family, And Was Born At Nassau. He Studied At Entered The Prussian Civil Service, And In 1784 Was At The Head Of The Department Of Mines For 'westphalia. In 1786 He Visited England And ...
Henry Howard Surrey
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl Of (c.1517 47). An English Soldier And Poet., Son Of Lord Thomas Howard, Affirmed Third Duke Of Norfolk. His Youth Was Spent In France, And At The Court Of Henry Viii., And Be Received A Care Ful Classical Education. He Was Made A Knight Of The ...
Henry John Stephen 1826 S31
Smith, Henry John Stephen (1826-s31. An Eminent English Mathematician, Born In Dublin. Lie Was Educated At Oxford. In 1848 He Gained The Ireland University Scholarship, And In 1849 Was Elected Fellow Of Balliol. In 1850 He Was Appointed Lecturer In Mathematics At Balliol College. And In 1851 Senior Scholar In ...
Herbert 1820 1903 Spencer
Spencer, Herbert ( 1820-1903 ). A Distin Guished English Philosopher. Tle Was Horn At Derby. April 27, 1820. His Father Was A Teacher By Profession, With Views In Advance Of His Time. Be Believed In Training The Student's Mind In Ob Servation And In Reflection On Objective Facts In Stead ...
History
History. The Fabulous History Of Siam Goes Back To The Fifth Century B.c. An Attempt Is Made To Show The Descent Of The King From .buddha, And Of The People From His Immediate Disciples. The Traditions Abound In Tales Of Buddhist Miracles And Of Supernatural Interventions. Authentic History Begins In ...
History
History, The History Of Siberia. An Episode In That Of The Russian Empire, Is A History Of National Expansion—of Adventnre, Exploration, Settlement, And Development—a Process Still Go Ing On In All Its Phases. In The Reign Of Ivan Iv. An Enterprising Family, The Strogonoff, Car Ried On An Active Trade ...
History The Egyptian Sudan
History. The Egyptian Sudan. The Sudan Has Been Apportioned By The Events Of The Last Few Years Into British And French Spheres Of Influence. The Egyptian Sudan, Now Under British Control, Is Practically Coincident With The Ancient Nubia (q.v.). It Embraces The Mod Ern Egyptian Mudirias, Or Provinces. Of Khar ...
History_2
History. Silesia Was Inhabited In Ancient Times Hp The Germanic Quadi And Lygii, Who Were Succeeded By Slavic Tribes. In The Tenth Century It Came Under Polish Rule And Was Soon Christianized. From 1163 The Greater Part Of Silesia Was Ruled By Dukes Of The Polish Line Of Nast. (see ...
History_3
History. Upon The Death Of Smithson's Nephew• Henry James Hungerford. In 1835. The United States Legation In London Was Notified Of The Bequest. The Disposition Of The Property Was For Ten Years Debated In Congress, But Ulti Mately The Trust Was Accepted And Congress Cre Ated An Establishment Consisting, Of ...
History_4
History. Old Smyrna Was An ..eolian Colony, But Early In The Seventh Century B.c. Was Seized By Exiles From Colophon. And Thus Brought Into The Ionian League. Its Situation, Which Com Manded The Route From Sardis To The Coast, En Abled It To Develop A Rich Commerce, But Excited The ...
History_5
History. In 1562 Jean Ribaut (q.v.), Acting For Admiral Coligny, Attempted To Form A Eolony Of French Huguenots At Port Royal. The Colony, However, Was Abandoned The Next Year, And Other Attempts Were Made Farther South. Charles 1. Granted In 1630 To Sir Robert Death All The Territory Between And ...
History_6
History. Under P.oman Control The Territory Of Styria Formed A Portion Of Both Pannonia And Noricum, And Was Even Then Famous For Its Iron And Steel. During The Period Of The Great Mi Gration Of Nations The Various Invaders Of The Italian Peninsula Swept Through Or Settled In This District ...
History_7
History. The Plan Of A Water Connection Between The Mediterranean And The Red Sea Goes Back To Early Egyptian History. Such A Canal Seems To Have Been Constructed In The Reigns Of Seti I. And Rameses Ii. (about B.c. 1350-1300), Extend Ing From The Nile To Lake Timsah And Thence ...
History_8
History. Ocher Was The First To Describe Sul Phuric Acid As A Spirit Which Can Be Produced From Alum And Which Possesses Solvent Proper Ties. From The Year 1613 Sulphuric Acid Was Pre Pared By The Apothecaries By Burning Sulphur With Access Of Air In Moist Vessels. In 1666 The ...
History_9
History. About B.c. 1500 The Kings Of Egypt Brought The Greater Part Of Syria Under Their Dominion. Their Advance Was Opposed By The Hittites (q.v.). Who Were Long Dominant In Northern Syria, And Who Spread Also Into The Southern Part Of The Country. The Non-semitic People Were Gradually Amalgamated With ...
Horatio 1810 86 Seymour
Seymour, Horatio (1810-86). An Ameri Can Political Leader, The Son Of Henry Seymour, A Colleague And Supporter Of De Witt Clinton. He Was Born At Pompey Hill, Onondaga County. N. Y., Was Educated At Geneva Academy (later Hobart College) And At Middletown (conn.) Military Academy, Studied Law At Utica, And ...
Houses Not Connected With
Houses Not Connected With Sewers. Al Though, As Now Understood, Sewage Is Limited To Those Houvehold And Industrial Wastes Which Are Removed By Sewers, It Will Be Convenient To Con Sider, In Addition, The Disposal Of Exerementitious Matters And Fouled Water From Such Houses And Other Buildings As Are Not ...
Htdeogeaphy
Htdeogeaphy. Owing To The Alps, The Coun Try Is Especially Well Supplied With Water. Near Ly Every Valley Is Traversed By A Larger Or Smaller Stream, Often Interropted By Picturesque Water Falls. The Country Possesses The Headwaters Of Some Of The Important Rivers Of Europe—the Rhine, The Rhone, And The ...
Hydrograpii Y
Hydrograpii Y. The Arctic Rivers Flowing Through The Siberian Low Lands And The Amur Of The Pacific Have Great Length And Very Extensive Basins. The Four Great Rivers, The Ob, Yenisei, Lena, And Amur (qq.v.), With Their Numerous Tributaries, Afford About 30,000 Miles Of Interior Navigation. The Ob And Its ...
Ii Asa N And
Ii Asa N And Tiosein. ) The Conservatives Ac. Knowledged Ali's Caliphate And Revered Him As A Saint And Martyr, Hut They Possessed No Such Legitimist Principles As His Adherents. A Bitter Struggle Followed His Selection As Caliph. (see Ommtans; Moawlyatt.) The Resulting History Is A Remarkably 14 Implicated One, ...
Ii Erni Ann 1857
Stjdermann, Ii Erni Ann ( 1857 —) . A German Dramatist And Novelist, Born At Matzieken. East Prussia, September 30, 1857. He Studied History. Philology. And Ture At Kiinigsberg And Berlin, And After Some Obscure Years As Tutor And Journalist Be Won European Fame And Assured Literary Position By A ...
Ii Iii James I
Iii.; James I., Ii., Iii., Iv., V.; Mary Stuart; James I. (of England) ; Charles I. And Ii.; James 11.; Mary 11.; And Anne.) In The Person Of James 11. The Line Of Stuart Was Driven From The English And Scottish Thrones. The Claims Of The House Were Upheld By ...
Ii Medleval European Law
Ii. Medleval European Law. The Early German Law Of Inheritance, With The Roman, Was Based On The Family, But It Gave No Such Preference To Kinship In The Male Line, Except As Regarded Succession To Real Property. As Re Garded Such Property, However, A Preference Not Only Of The Male ...
Ii S S Texas
Ii. S. S. Texas, About Two Years Later The Larger Battleships In Diana, Massachusetts, And Oregon Of Tons Were Commenced. A Prejudice Still Existed Against 'high-sided' Armorclads, And These Were Designated As 'coast-line Battleships' And Given Very Moderate Freeboard. They Were Very Re Markable Ships For Their (lay. Their Speed ...
Iii Modern Civil Codes
Iii. Modern Civil Codes, In Modern Eu Ropean Legislation The Roman Principle Of Uni Versal Succession Has Generally Reasserted Itself : The Same Rules Generally Govern Inheritance Of Realty And Of Personalty. In All The Codes The Inheritance Vests Primarily In Descendants. Fail Ing These Different Rules Prevail. At French ...
Iiiodern Iiiilitary Rifles
Iiiodern Iiiilitary Rifles. Although The Prin Ciple Of Rifling Small Arms Dates From The Begin Ning Of The Sixteenth Century, It Was Not Till Toward The Close Of The Seventeenth That The Principle Was Employed For Military Weapons. Owing To The Fact That The Rifle Could Not Be Ignited The ...
Il Sodoma
So'doma, Il, Properly Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1549). An Italian Painter Of The High Renaissance. He Was Born At Vercelli (piedmont) And Studied For Six Years With Mar Tino The Spanzattis, A Painter On Glass. He Then Came Under The Influence Of Leonardo Da Vinci, Probably At Milan, And Though He ...
Incandescent Body Generalized Fig
Fig. 4. Intensity Curve, Incandescent Body Generalized. According To The Measurements Of Fi-aunhofer, Koenig, Brodhun, And Others, The Distribution Of Intensity In The Spectrum Of The Sun And Other Incandescent Bodies Corresponds Roughly To The Curve In The Accompanying Diagram, Fig. 4. A Comparison Of The Intensity-distribution In The Spectra ...
Internal Sovereignty
Internal Sovereignty. Under The Head Of In Ternal Sovereignty Another Distinction Is Made Between What Is Termed 'legal' Sovereignty And `political' Sovereignty. Political Sovereignty Is The Ultimate Controlling Power Resident In Any Political Society. Legal Sovereignty Is The Or Ganized Power Which At Any Given Time Must Be Regarded As ...
James 1596 1666 Shirley
Shirley, James (1596-1666). An English Dramatist, Born In London. He Attended The :merchant Taylors' School. London (1608-12), Whence He Passed To Saint John's College, Oxford. He Afterwards Entered Catharine Hall, Cam Bridge, Where He Received The Degree Of B. A. (c.1618). Subsequently Lie Took Orders, And Be Came A Minister ...
James 1765 1829 Smithson
Smith'son, James ( 1765-1829). Founder Of The Smithsonian Institution At Washington, Known In Early Life As James Lewis O• Louis Marie. He Was Born In France, The Natural S011 Of Hugh Smithson, First. Duke Of Northumber Land, And Of Mrs. Elizabeth Keate Stacie, A Mem Ber Of The Hmngerfo•d Family ...
James 1813 83 Sims
Sims, James (1813-83). An Ameri Can Born In Smith Carolina. He Was Graduated In Medicine By Jefferson Medi Cal College, Philadelphia, In 1835, And Entered Upon The Practice Of His Profession At Mont Gomery, Ala., In 1836. About 1s45 He Became Interested In The Hitherto Incurable , Disease Yesico-vaginal Fistula, ...
James Ewell Brown 1833 64
Stuart, James Ewell Brown ( 1833-64 ) . An American Soldier, Prominent As A Cavalry Leader In The Confederate Service During The Civil War. Ile Was Born In Virginia, Attended Emory And Henry College, And.graduated At The United States Military Academy In 1854. He Then Served As Lieutenant On The ...
James Joseph 1814 97sylvester
Sylvester, James Joseph ( 1814-97 ) . One Of The Foremost English Mathematicians Of The Nineteenth Century. He Was Born In Lon Don, Of Jewish Parents. And Received His Early Education In A Jewish School. He Then Attended The Royal Institution School In Liverpool, And Thence Proceeded To Saint John's. ...
Jared 1789 1866 Sparks
Sparks, Jared (1789-1866). An American Historian, Editor, And Educator, Born At Willing Ton, Conn. He Graduated At Harvard College In 1815. Here, After Teaching School, He Was (1817 19) Tutor In Mathematics And Natural Phi Losophy. During This Time He Studied Theology And (1817-18) Edited The North American Re View. ...
Johann Strauss
Strauss, Johann, The Younger (1825-99). A Distinguished Austrian Composer, Born In Vienna, Son Of The Preceding. His Father Was Averse To His Adopting The Profession Of Music, Hut, Aided By His Mother, He Was Enabled To Secure Instruction On The Violin And In Composi Tion, And At Nineteen Years Of ...
John 1460 Skelton
Skel'ton, John ( 1460 ?-1529). An English Satirical Poet. Born Probably In Norfolk. He Claimed To Have Studied At Both Cambridge And Oxford, From Each Of Which Lie Received The Aca Demieal Hormrof Laureate. Some Time Before 1500, Henry Vii. Appointed Him Tutor To Prince Henry, Afterwards King Henry Viii.; ...
John 1580 1631 Smith
Smith, John ( 1580-1631). A Famous Adven Turer, Colonist, And Explorer, Born At Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England. He Was Left An Orphan At An Early Age. At The Age Of Fifteen He Ac Companied The Sons Of An English Nobleman On A Tour Of The Continent, As A Page; But Soon ...
John 1749 183s Stevens
Stevens, John (1749-183s). Au American Inventor, Engineer, And Steamboat Builder. He Was Born In New York City, And In 1768 Gradu Ated At King's (now Columbia) College. He Then Studied Law, And In 1771 Was Admitted To The Bar. In 1790 He Petitioned Congress For Legis Lation For The Protection ...
John 1823 1900 Sherman
Sherman, John (1823-1900). An Ameri Can Statesman, Born At Lancaster, Ohio. He Was Admitted To The Bar In 1844, And Settled At Mansfield, Ohio. He Was A Member Of Congress From 1855 Until 1877, First In The House, And After 1861 In The Senate. His Ability As A Speaker Awl ...
John Canfield 178s 1 Spencer
Spencer, John C'anfield (178s-1,955). An American Jurist And Politician, Born At Hudson, N. Y. He Graduated At Union College In 1806, Studied Law, And Was Admitted To The Bar At Canandaigua In 1809. In 1813 He Was Brigade Judge-advocate-general In The Army On The North Ern Frontier. From 1817 To ...
Joiin 1745 1315 Sevier
Sevier, Joiin (1745-1315). An American Pioneer And Political Leader, Born In Rockingham County, Va. Leaving School When Sixteen Years Of Age, He Married In The Following Year, And In 1764 Founded The Village Of New :market In The Shenandoah Valley. Here Lie Became Cele Brated As An Indian Fighter, And ...
Jonathan 1667 1745 Swift
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). The Great Est Of English Satirists, Born In Dublin, Novem Ber 30. 1607. He Was Of Yorkshire Origin. His Father Had Been Attracted To Ireland By The Prospect Of Political Preferment, But Died Before Jonathan's Birth. When He Was Six Years Old, His Uncle Godwin Sent Him ...
Joseph Smith
Smith, Joseph, Jr. (1805-44). The Founder Of Mormonism. He Was Born In Sharon, Vt., December 23. 1s05. Of Illiterate And Neuropathie Ancestry And Dissatisfied With The 'clash Of Creeds' In Palmyra, N. Y., Whither His Par Ents Had Removed In 1815, Smith At Fourteen Claimed To Receive A Series Of ...
Lake Superior
Superior, Lake. The Largest And Most Northerly Of The Great Lakes Of North America, And The Largest Body Of Fresh Water In The World (map: America, North, K 5). It Is Situated A Little To The Northeast Of The Centre Of The Conti Nent, And Is Bounded On The North ...
Land Surveying
Land Surveying. As At Present Practiced All Surveys Of Land, Properly So Called, Are Made: (1) To Establish Certain Monuments, Corners, Lines, And Boundaries, So As To Lay Out And Divide Land; Or (2) To Identify And Locate Such Monu Ments, Lines, And Boundaries After They Have Been Established, As ...
Laurence 1713 68 Sterne
Sterne, Laurence (1713-68). An English Author. He Was Horn At Clomnel, In Ireland. Carried About In The Regiment In Which His Father Was An Officer, He Saw Many Phases Of Life In Irelaml And England. From Ten To Eighteen He Was At School At Halifax, In Yorkshire. Later He Went ...
Legal Aspect
Legal Aspect. Any Combination Of Laborers To Raise Wages Was Illegal In England Until 1824, And In France Until 1864. In The United States Strikes As Such Have Never Been Illegal, But Until After 1830 It Was Not Definitely Settled That Strikers Could Not Be Arraigned For Civil And Criminal ...
Lindsay 1856 1 Swift
Swift, Lindsay (1856-1. An American Librarian, Bibliographer. And Literary Historian, Born In Boston. A Graduate Of Harvard (1877), He Became Associated In Various Bibliographical Capacities With The Boston Public Library, And Made Valuable Contributions, Editorial And Origi Nal, To The Study Of Early American Literature And History. The Most Noteworthy ...
Liquid Solutions
Liquid Solutions. These May Be Formed By Liquids With Gases, By Liquids With Other Liquids, And By Liquids With Solids. The Mass Of Any Gas Absorbed By Any Liquid Is Proportional To The Pressure Of The Gas (henry's Law) And Diminishes With Increasing Temperature. Of Course, Even Under The Same ...
Literature
Literature. The Principal Writers On So Cialism Have Been Mentioned In The Text, And Their Writings Are Mentioned In The Articles Dealing With Them. The Communist Manifesto (london, 1848) Is Perbaps The Most Im Portant Single Document In The History Of Socialism, And Marx, Das Ka-pital (3 Vols., Hamburg, 1862, ...
Live Stoc Agriculture
Agriculture, Live Stoc', And Fisheries. Three-fourths Of The Population Support Them Selves By Agriculture, Though Only About S Per Cent. Of The Land Area Is Under Cultivation. Hay Meadows And Pastures Cover 4 Per Cent. Of The Surface, Forests 44.2 Per Cent., And 43.6 Per Cent. Is Unproductive. In 1900, ...
Live Stock Agriculture
Agriculture, Live Stock, And Fisheries. Spain's Largest Interests Are Agricultural, Over Half The People Living By Farming, Which Supplies About Two-thirds Of The Exports. In General The Husbandry Of Spain Is Of An Antiquated Charac Ter. Farm Methods And Implements Are Primitive, And The Special Disadvantages Are That Much Of ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Sul'la, Lucius Cornelius (surnamed Fe Lix) • (n.c. 138-78). A Celebrated Roman General And Statesman, Horn At Rome Of A Family Belong Ing To The Clan Cornelia. In B.c. 107 He Was Elected Mmstor, And Sent To Africa With Cavalry That The Consul Marius (q.v.) Required For Prose Cuting The ...
Lucius Septimius Ad 146 211
Severus, Lucius Septimius (a.d. 146-211). A Roman Emperor From 193 To 211, Born Near Leptis Magna. On The North Coast Of Africa. He Was Commander Of A Legion In Gaul, And Gov Ernor Successively Of Gallia Lugdunensis, Pan Nonia, And Sicily. After The Murder Of Pertinax He Was Proclaimed Emperor, ...
Man Ufactu Res
Man Ufactu Res. Switzerland Is A Great Manu Facturing Country, Though It Lacks Coal, Iron, And Seaports. Its Advantages Are Abundant Water Power, Markets In The Adjoining Countries In Which To Buy Raw Materials And Sell Manufactured Products, Good Connections With Seaports, And The Diligence, Perseverance, And Skill Of The ...