Thomas Brown
Brown, Thomas Ed•ard (1830-97 ) An English Poet, Born In The Isle Of .1iart• The Son Of A 'manx Clergyman. After Attending King Wil Liam's College (1845-49), He Was Admitted To A .ervitorship At Christ Church. Oxford (1849). Though He Was Much Humbled By His Quasi Menial Position, His University ...
Tians Rulow
Rulow, Tians Vox (1s30-94). A German Pianist And Conductor, Born In Dresden. He Studied The Pianoforte Tinder Friedrich Wieek, And Harmony And Counterpoint Under Eherwein And Llauptinemn. In 1848 He Entered The Cul Ersity Of Leipzig To Study Law, But The Next Year Went To Berlin, And After Hearing A ...
Tile Birds Peace In
Tile Bird's Peace In Nature. Birds Are Classified Between The Reptiles, Regarded As In Terior To Them, And The Mammals, Regarded As Superior In General Organization. Birds Differ From Mammals, Broadly. In Being Clothed With Feathers Instead Of Hairs, And In The Absence Of Milk-gla Nds. And By Sundry Differences ...
Tile Early Christians
Tile Early Christians. Christianity Abol Ished Cremation. The Belief In The Resurrection Of The Body Made Inhumation Preferable. Em Balming Was Not Practiced, Except Occasionally. Though Spices And Unguents Were Used To Retard Decay. Several Of The Roman Burial Customs Survived In Certain Regions Until The _middle Ages, Such As ...
Topography
Topography. Except The Remote, Almost Un Inhabitable Northeastern Corner, British Colum Bia Is, As It Is Popularly Called, A 'sea Of Moun Tains.' Their General Trend Is Northwest-south East, In Conformity With That Of The American Cordillera, Of Which They Are A Part: But Bis Torieally They Have Much Local ...
Transportation Commerce
Commerce, Transportation, Etc. Bolivia Is Greatly Hampered In The Development Of Commer Eial Interests By Its Inland Situation. It Exports Chiefly Metals, Rubber. Wool, Hides And Skins. And Other Raw Products, The Trade Being Carried On Principally Through The Chilean Ports Of Anto Fagasta, And .1rica, The Peruvian Port Of ...
Trestle Viaducts
Trestle Viaducts. Originating With The Earliest Forms Of Timber Trestles, A Type Of Bridge Has Been Developed, Chietly In The United States, Which Is Known As The Trestle Viaduct, A Bridge Of Wood Or Metal In Which The Different Spans Arc Supported Directly Upon Legs Or Towers Composed Of Two ...
Unicipal Activities Administration
Administration, :\ Unicipal. Activities. The Government Is Vested In A Mayor, Elected Every Two Years, A Bicameral City Council Composed Of 13 Aldermen And 75 Councilmen, And Sub Ordinate Administrative Officials, Of Whom The Street Commissioners Are Elmsen By Popular Vote, The City Clerk. The City Messenger And Clerk Of ...
University Of Bologna
Bologna, University Of, One Of The Old Est And Most Famous Universities In The World, Though Paris. If Not Older. Rivals It In Antiquity, And Salerno Had A School Of Medicine At A Very Early Date. The Origin Of All These Foundations Is Obscure. A School Of Law Existed In ...
Urder Of
Urder Of. An Organization Of Israelites Of Ger Man Extraction, Founded In America In 1843. And Since Extended Through Germany And In The East. It Somewhat Resembles The Masonic Organization, Without Its Secrecy And Ceremonial. Its Object Is The Moral Elevation Of Its Members, Who Now Number Some 25,000 In ...
Urinary Bladder
Bladder, Urinary (probably Akin To The Verb To Now). A Bag Which Receives The Urine In Man And Animals After It Is Secreted By The Kidneys. The Bladder-wall Consists Of Three Eoats—a Lining Mucous Membrane, A Middle Mus Cular Coat, And An Outer Coat Which Is Serous, Where The Organ ...
Vana
Vana. The Key Of The Whole Scheme Of Buddhist Sal Vation Lies In What Gautama Called His Four Sublime Verities. The First Asserts That Pain Exists; The Second, That The Cause Of Pain Is Desire Or Attachment—the Meaning Of Which Will Appear Further On; The Third, That Pain Can Be ...
Victor 1772 1838
Victor (1772-1838). A French Physician. Ile Was Born At Saint Malo, France. And Was Edu Cated In The Dinan Public School. Lie Volun Teered At The Outbreak Of The Revolution, But Ill Health Caused His Discharge From The Army. Lie Then Studied Medicine Under His Father, Who Was A Physician. ...
Visceral System
Visceral System. The Digestive Apparatus Of Birds Resembles That Of Mammals; Exhibiting, However, Various Modifications, According To The Different Kinds Of Food—some Birds Feeding On Flesh, Others On Fish, Others Exclusively On In Sects, Others On Seeds, Others More Indiscriminately On A Variety Of Animal And Vegetable Sub Stances. Few ...
Vissarion Gri Goryevitch 1810 4s
Byelinski, Vissarion Gri Goryevitch 1810-4s). A Russian Literary Critic. He Was Born At Sveaborg, The Son Of A Physician. He Attended The Gymnasium At Penza And Stud Ied Philology At The University Of _moscow. Where He Became Intimate With The 'idealist' Circle Of Stankyevitch, Llerzen, Others. In I S32, On ...
Willem 1755 831 Bilderdijk
Bilderdijk, Willem (1755 '831). A Dutch Poet, Philologist, And Philoso Pher. He Was Born In Amsterdam, September 7, 1755, Studied Law In Leyden, And Then Prac Ticed It At The Hague. In 1795 He Was Exiled As An Anti-i:evolutionist. And Went To London And Brunswick, After A Discreditable Love Affair ...
William Alfred 1804 75
Buckingham, William -alfred (1804 75). An American Politician, Best Known As The `war Governor' Of Connecticut. Ile Was Born In Lebanon, Conn.; Received A Common-school Edu Cation; Taught School ; Worked On His Father's Farm: And In 1825 Began Business For Himself In Norwich, Ultimately Acemnulating A Consid Erable Fortune ...
William Cullen 1794 1878 Bryant
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878). A Distinguished American Poet And Journalist. He Was Born In Cummington, Mass., November 3, 1794, The Son Of Dr. Peter Bryant, A Physician And A Member, For Several Terms, Of The Massa Chusetts Legislature. He Showed His Precocity As A Poet By Publishing Verse, At The ...
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan, William Jennings (1860—). An American Politician, Born In Salem, Iii. He Graduated At Illinois College In 1881, And At The Union College Of Law, In Chicago, In 1883, And Practiced Law In Jacksonville, Ill., Until 1887, When He Removed To Lincoln, Neb. From 1891 To 1895 He Was A ...
William Orlando 1791 Isso Butler
Butler, William Orlando (1791-isso). An American Soldier And Politician. He Was Born In Jessamine County. Ky.; Early Removed With His Parents To Bullitt County; And In 1812 Graduated At Transylvania University. On The Outbreak Of The War Of 18i2 He Joined A Company Of Kentucky Volunteers, And Subse Quently Participated ...
Willibild 1823 1900 Beyschlag
Beyschlag, Willibild (1823 1900). A German Protestant Theologian. He Was Born At Frankfort-on-the-main, And Studied Theology At Bonn And Berlin From 1840 To 1844. In Ism He Became Court Preacher At Karls Ruhe, And In 180 Was Called To The Chair Of Practical Theology At Halle. With Wolters He Founded ...
Ysiology
Ysiology. Nothing Was Known Of The Life Of Plants In The Early Part Of The Seventeenth Century Except What Had Been Learned Through Agricultural And Horticultural Operations. It Was In The Latter Half Of The Seventeenth Cen Tury That The Science Of Plant Physiology Was Founded, Long After The Physiological ...