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ANU, a Babylonian deity, who, by virtue of being the first figure in a triad consisting of Anu, Bel and Ea, came to be regarded as the father and king of the gods. Anu is so prominently associated with the city of Erech in southern Babylonia that there are goo ...

ANUBIS (in Egyptian Anup, written Infrw in hieroglyphs), the name of one of the most important of the Egyptian gods. There were two types of canine divinities in Egypt, their leading representatives being respectively Anubis and Ophois (W p-w'<-u'l, " opener o ...

ANURADHAPURA, a ruined city of Ceylon, famous for its ancient monuments. It is situated in the North-central province. Anuradhapura became the capital of Ceylon in the 5th century B.C., and attained its highest magnificence about the commencement of the Christ ...

ANGUS, EARLS OP. Angus was one of the seven original earldoms of the Pictish kingdom of Scotland, said to have been occupied by seven brothers of whom Angus was the eldest. The Critic line ended with Matilda (fl. 1240), countess of Angus in her own right, who

... ourish. There are sugar factories, where rum is also distilled and a few other manufactures, but the prosperity of the province depends on the " jungle " products obtained through the natives and from the plantations owned by Portuguese and worked by indenture ...

... 50. By his first wife he had three children: Henri, who became insane; Louis Emmanuel, who succeeded his father as duke of Angoule'me and was colonel-general of light cavalry and governor of Provence; and Francois, who died in 1622. The duke was the author of ...

... urses in the neighbourhood of the town. The subsidiary industries, such as the manufacture of machinery and wire fabric, are of considerable importance. Iron and copper founding, brewing, tanning, and the manufacture of gunpowder, confectionery, heavy iron goo ...

... odiacal light. His son, KNUT JOHAN ANGSTROM, was born at Upsala on the i2th of January 1857, and studied at the university of that town from 1877 to 1884. After spending a short time in Strassburg he was appointed lecturer in physics at Stockholm University in ...

... eans, corn, &c., and rear sheep and goats. Cattle, phosphate of lime and salt, manufactured from a lake in the interior, are the principal ANGULATE— ANGUS exports, the market for these bring the neighbouring island of St Thomas.

... lampreys. The country is rich in lignite, and salt works are abundant. Of the manufactures of Anholt, the chief ore its sugar factories, distilleries, breweries and chemical works. Commerce is brisk, especially in raw products — corn, cattle, timber or wool. ...

... urring as contorted concretionary masses is known as tripe-stone, and a scaly granular variety, from Vulpino, near Bergamo, in Lombardy, as vulpinite; the latter is cut and polished for ornamental -purposes. (L. J. S.)

... ls on this subject. In addition to dyestuffs, it is a starting-product for the manufacture of many drugs, such as antipyrine, antifebrin, &c. Aniline is manufactured by reducing nitrobenzene with iron and hydrochloric acid and steam-distilling the product. The ...

... the " Hottentots' god " by early settlers. Monkey. — In India the monkey-god, Hanuman, is a prominent figure; in orthodox villages monkeys are safe from harm. Monkeys are said to be worshipped in Togo. At Porto Novo, in French West Africa, twins have tutelary ...

... mate; but the savage does not stop short here; mountains and lakes, stones and manufactured articles, are for him alike endowed with souls like his own; he deposits in the tomb weapons and food, clothes and implements, broken, it may be, in order to set free t ...

... to have been maestro di capella at S. Giovanni in Laterano from the middle of January 155° until 1552, and to have died in 1363.

... s succeeded by Palestrina, who had been his friend and probably his pupil. The manuscript of many of Animuccia's compositions is still preserved in the Vatican Library. His chief published works were Madrigali e Uotetti a quatlro e cinque toci (Ven. 1548) and ...

... out like a star. The anise of the Bible (Matt, rxiii. 23) is A nethum or Peucedanum frovcotens, i.e. dill (?.».).

... e Peene is navigable up to the town, which has a considerable trade in its own manufactures, as well as in the produce of the surrounding country, while some shipbuilding is carried on in wharves on the river. Anklam, formerly Tanglim, was originally a Slav fo ...

ANTAE (a Lat. plural word, possibly from anU, before), an architectural term given to slightly projecting pilaster strips which terminate the winged walls of the naos of a Greek temple. They owe their origin to the vertical posts of timber employed in the prim ...

... to the romantic legend adapted by Robert Southey (1774-1843) in his Lailo and Manuel. Woollen fabrics are manufactured, and the sugar industry established in 1800 employs several thousand hands; but the majority of the inhabitants are occupied by the trade in ...

ANTEROS, pope for some weeks at the end of the year 235. Me died on the 3rd of January 236. His original epitaph was discovered in the Catacombs.

... ental history. The larvae of corals are free swimming ciliated forms known as planulae, and they do not acquire a corallum until they fix themselves. A ring-shaped plate of calcite, secreted by the ectoderm, is then formed, lying between the embryo and the sur ...

... pestilence attacking animals, and through them mankind; the oldest AngloSaxon manuscripts contain many fantastic recipes, leechdoms, charms and incantations (or the prevention or cure of the " Ma. an blezenc " (black blain) and the relief of the " clfshot " c ...

... ings was first indicated by Jewish politicians and economists. On the i-jth of January 1873, Edward Lasker called the attention of the Prussian diet to the dangers of the situation, while his colleague, Ludwig Bamberger, in an able article in the Preussischen ...

... consul whose family had originally belonged to Nemausus (Nimes), was born near Lanuvium on the igth of September 86. After the death of his father, he was brought up under the care of Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, a man of integrity and culture, ...

ANTRAIGUES. EMMANUEL HENRI LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, COMTE D' (c. 1755-1812), French publicist and political adventurer, was a nephew of Francois Emmanuel de Saint-Priest (1735-1821), one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. He was a cavalry captain, but, havi ...

... flourish on the great estates, and orchards have proved successful. The linen manufacture is the most important industry. Cotton-spinning by jennies was first introduced by Robert Joy and Thomas M'Cabe of Belfast in 1777; and an estimate made twenty-three yea ...

... appointed Greek hospodars, and was exiled to Rumelia. But on his crossing the Danube in 1716 he was thrown into the water and drowned, as it is alleged, at the instigation of the prince of Walachia. He was a man of great talents and spoke and wrote many Orien ...

... e of the duchess of Buckingham secured the consent of the king. On the 26th of January 1644 Antrim was created a marquess. He returned to Kilkenny in February, took the oath of association, and was made a member of the council and lieutenant-general of the for ...

... convince regis, and the wergeld of 300 solidi was three times that of a homo romanus. The antrustions, belonging as they did to one body, had strictly defined duties towards one another; thus one antrustion was forbidden to bear witness against another under p ...

... re arc long streets and terraces of fine houses belonging to the merchants and manufacturers of the city which amply testify to its prosperity, and recall the i6th century distiih thai Antwerp was noted for its moneyed men (" Antwcrpia nummis "). Despite the r ...

... cility both of mind and body, which continued for two years, till his death in January 1782. D'Anville's published memoirs and dissertations amounted to 78, and his maps to 211. A complete edition of his works was announced in 1806 by de Manne in 6 vols. quart ...

... tries of the place are extensive, and include iron and copper founding and the manufacture of steam-engines, machinery, chain-cables and a great variety of heavy iron goods. There are also glass-works and breweries.

... e was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed the stone bridge over the Danube (A.D. 104-105). He also planned a gymnasium, a college, public baths, the Odeum and the Forum Trajanum, within the city of Rome; and the triumphal arches at Beneventum and An ...

... own as the Apollonian Problem, was proposed by Vieta in the i6th century to Adrianus Romanus, who gave a solution by means of a hyperbola. Vieta thereupon proposed a simpler construction, and restored the whole treatise of Apollonius in a small work, which he ...

... was imitated by Virgil (Aeneid, iv.), Varro Atacinus, and Valerius Flaccus. Marianus (about A.D. 500) paraphrased it in iambic trimeters. Apollonius also wrote epigrams; grammatical and critical works; and Krurtts (the foundations of cities). Editio Princeps ( ...

... er are obviously interpolated. They are taken from the Enigmata of Caelius Firmianus Symposius. The many inconsistencies of the story seem to be best explained by the supposition (E. Rohde, Der griechische Roman, 2nd ed., 1900, pp. 435 et seq.) that the Antioc ...

... e spirit and phrase-coiner like T. Carlyle, if bitterer still), Lactantius Firmianus, &c., &C.1 As Christianity wins the day, a new objection is raised to it. The age is full of troubles; Christianity is ruining the empire! Besides notices elsewhere, we find t ...

... mained unknown in the West until they were published in 1563 by the Jesuit Turrianus. At first received with enthusiasm, their authenticity soon came to be impugned; and their true significance was largely lost sight of as it began to be realized that they wer ...

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