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ARCIS-SUR-AUBE, a town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Aube, on the left bank of the Aube, 23 m. N. of Troyes on the Eastern railway to Chalonssur-Marne. Pop. (1906) 2803. Fires in 1719, 1727 and 1814 destroyed the ancient ...

... alaeographk archivist. He was placed in control of the departmental archives of Aube, and remained in that position until 1880, when he retired on a pension. He published several volumes of inventorial abstracts, a Rtpertoire archtologique du department in 186 ...

... rises the modern development of electric theory and of absolute quantitative measurements, and above all, of the applications of this knowledge in electrical engineering. We shall sketch briefly the historical progress during these various stages, and also the ...

... .\i. pp. 48-54, pi. 3) a good description and fair figure of it, calling it the Surinamische Sonnenreyger," Ardea helias, the first author to notice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the name of " Sonnenvogel," was published at Amsterdam in 1759 ...

... n HerzoeHauck (1896). 3 So Ritschl, following Schleiermacher, Der Christliche Glaube §30. 4 A. W. Benn (History of English Rationalism in the igtn Cent.) goes beyond ordinary usage in defining rationalism as a militant theory opposed to all belief in God. ledg ...

... lifications for entering into the priestly order are good conduct and a fair measure of learning — such conduct at least as is good according to Buddhist tenets, and such learning as is esteemed among their votaries. The Arakanese are of Burmese origin, but se ...

... ticed. The mountain chain^ which form the edge of the plateau, or diversify its surface, run generally parallel to the coast, as Tala Mugongo (4400 ft.), Chella and Vissecua (5250 ft. to 6500 ft.). In the district of Benguella are the highest points of the pro ...

... isc de Narbonne, daughter of Charles, baron of Mareuil. She bad no children and survived her husband until 1713. Angoule'me himself died on the 24th of September 1650. By his first wife he had three children: Henri, who became insane; Louis Emmanuel, who succe ...

... atuary and sculpture, the whole representing the Lost Judgment. The crossing is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine square tower over 160 ft. high. The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but pres ...

... hence a railway, begun in 1006, runs east in the direction of Bechuanaland. The surrounding country for many miles is absolute desert, except after rare but terrible thunderstorms, when the dry bed of the Little Fish river is suddenly filled with a turbulent s ...

... which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements were inexact to the extent of one part in 7000 or 8000 owing to the metre which he used as his standard having been slightly too short. He was the first, in 1867, to exam ...

... arated by the interposition of a part of Prussian Saxony — and of five enclaves surrounded by Prussian territory, viz. Alsleben, Miihlingen,Dornburg,G6dnitz and Tilkerode-Abberode. The eastern and larger portion of the duchy is enclosed by the Prussian governm ...

... uer" (Alter Dessauer), general field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II. , prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born on the 3rd of July 1676 at Dessau. From his earliest youth he was devoted to the profession of arms, for wh ...

... sh. On the best developed of the three cleavages the lustre is pearly, on other surfaces it is of the ordinary vitreous type. Anhydrite is most frequently found in salt deposits with gypsum; it was, for instance, first discovered, in 1704, in a salt mine near ...

... y the Mongols, and its ruin was completed by an earthquake in 1319. It is still surrounded by a double wall partly in •uins, and amongst the remains are a " patriarchal " church inished in 1010, two other churches, both of the nth century, a fourth built in 12 ...

... f an oily consistence, colourless, melting at —8° and boiling at 184° C. On exposure to air it absorbs oxygen and resinifies, becoming deep brown in colour; it ignites readily, burning with a large smoky flame. It possesses a f somewhat pleasant vinous odour a ...

... y of plants, make possible and necessary a form of growth in which the greatest surface is exposed to the exterior, and thus the plant body is composed of flattened laminae and elongated branching growths. The distinctions between animals and plants are in fac ...

... mammals, have a high temperature almost constant and independent of that of the surrounding air, whereas among the lower animals there is much variation of body temperature, dependent entirely on their surroundings. There are, however, certain mammals which ar ...

... ical influence are elevated into divinities. Bear. — The bear enjoys a large measure of respect from all savage races that come in contact with it, which shows itself in apologies and in festivals in its honour. The most important developments of the cult are ...

... of receiving Ihe brealh of a dying man was no mere pious duly bul a means of ensuring lhal his soul was iransferred lo a new body. Olher familiar conceptions idenlify ihe soul wilh Ihe liver (see OMEN) or Ihe heart, wilh Ihe reflecled figure seen in ihe pupil ...

... 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 fortress; it obtained civic rights in 1 244 and ...

... down at the bottom, buried in the soil with only the jaws projecting above the surface. Since the sides of the pit consist of loose sand they afford an insecure foothold to any small insect that inadvertently ventures over the edge. Slipping to the bottom the ...

... the group is the great anteater or ant-bear (Myrmecopkagajubata) , an animal measuring 4 ft. in length without the tail, and 2 ft in height at the shoulder. Its prevailing colour is grey, with a broad black band, bordered with white, commencing on the chest, a ...

... e the sun), the luminous ring or halo sometimes seen in Alpine or polar regions surrounding the shadow of the head of an observer cast upon a bank of cloud or mist. The halo diminishes in brightness from the centre outwards, and is probably due to the diffract ...

... i (Scriptora rerum mirabilium Graecf), 1839. In the course of constructions for surfaces to 'reflect to one and the same point (i) all rays in whatever direction passing through another point, (2) a set of parallel rays, Anthemius assumes a property of an elli ...

... ject, and bearing at the opposite extremity a crown of tentacles. The tentacles surround an area known as the peristome, in the middle of which there is an elongated mouth-opening surrounded by tumid lips. The mouth does not open directly into the general cavi ...

... C,4H« C,H, (NO,),-OH, which crystallizes in needles, melting at 138° C. On exposure to sunlight a solution of anthracene in benzene or xylrne deposits para-anthracene (CuHio)i, which melts at 244° C. and passes back into the ordinary form. Chlorine and bromin ...

... and similar strata in the Rhenish hill countries which are known as the Culm Measures. In America, culm is used as an equivalent for waste or slack in anthracite mining. Physically, anthracite differs from ordinary bituminous coal by its greater hardness, high ...

... and man, anthrax has been widely diffused in one or more of its forms, over the surface of the globe. It at times decimates the reindeer herds in Lapland and the Polar regions, and is only too well known in the tropics and in temperate latitudes. It has been o ...

... equently acquired a physical and moral physiognomy differentiating them in a measure from their former oppressors. This peculiar physiognomy was, on its moral side, not essentially Jewish or even Semitic. It was an advanced development of the main attributes o ...

... prevent or inhibit their growth. The antiseptic method of treating wounds (see SURGERY) was introduced by Lord Lister, and was an outcome of Pasteur's germ theory of putrefaction. For the growth of bacteria there must be a certain food supply, moisture, in mo ...

... , there is a ruinous walled village, and the shell of an old Venetian fortress, surrounded by mosques and bazaars; for Antivari is rather Turkish than Montenegrin. The fine bay of Antivari, with Prstan, its port, is distant about one hour's drive through barre ...

... the papal secretary of state, but four years later was appointed pontifical treasurer-general. Created cardinal (nth June 1847), he was chosen by Pius IX. to preside over the council of state entrusted with the drafting of the constitution. On the loth of Marc ...

... empire, seemingly based on official documents, which were probably those of the survey organized by Julius Caesar, and carried out under Augustus. Nothing is known with certainty as to the date or author. It is considered probable that the date of the original ...

... s. Instead of plundering to support his prodigality, he emptied his private treasury to assist distressed provinces and cities, and everywhere exercised rigid economy (hence the nickname KfjuPOTpitrnp, " cummin-splitter "). Instead of exaggerating into treason ...

... as born about 83 B.C. Under the influence of his stepfather, Cornelius Lentulus Sura, he spent a profligate youth. For a time he co-operated with P. Clodius Pulcher, probably out of hostility to Cicero, who had caused Lentulus Sura to be put to death as a Cati ...

... y J. J. Rousseau, with whom he became somewhat intimate. He published a Mimoire sur Us ttats-gtntraux, supported the Revolution enthusiastically when it broke out, was elected deputy, and took the oath to the constitution; but he suddenly changed his mind comp ...

... ancient stream deposit of chalk pebbles occurs at Ballycastle. The volcanic fissures that allowed of the upwelling of basalt are represented by numerous dykes, many cutting the earlier lava-flows as well as all the beds below them. The accumulations of lava g ...

... in Grober, Grundriss d. rom. Philologie, vol. ii. (1899); and E. Picot, Notice sur Anthim d'lvir (Paris, 1886). (M. G.)

... Its tower of over 400 ft. is a conspicuous object to be seen from afar over the surrounding flat country. A second tower which formed part of the original plan has never been erected. The proportions of the interior arc noble, and in the church arc hung three ...