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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Enos
Britannica 11thENOS (anc. Aenos), a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the southern shore of the river Maritza, where its estuary broadens to meet the Aegean Sea in the Gulf of Enos. Pop. (1905) about 8000. Enos occupies a ridge of rock surrounded by b ...
Temenos
Britannica 11thTEMENOS (Gr. re/wvos, -rkiivtiv, to cut), the Greek term in archaeology given to a piece of land which forms the enclosure of a temple, or sanctuary.
Enns
Britannica 11thENNS, a town of Austria, in upper Austria, n m. by rail S.E. of Linz. Pop. (1900) 4371. It is situated on the Enns near its confluence with the Danube and possesses a i sth-century castle, an old Gothic church, and a town hall erected in 1563. Three miles to t
Eros
Britannica 11thEROS, a minor planet discovered by Witt at Berlin on the i |t h of August 1898, and, so far as yet known, unique in that its perihelion lies far within the orbit of Mars. EROS, in Greek mythology, the god of love. He is not mentioned in Homer; in Hesiod (Theog
Anthozoa
Britannica 11th... network of canals, the confluent edgezones of mother zooid and bud forming a coenosarc. As the process continues a number of calicles are formed, imbedded in a spongy tissue in which the canals ramify, and it is impossible to say where the theca of one coralh ...
Argos
Britannica 11th... n her right, instead of an elaborate figure of Victory (such as the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus held), simply a pomegranate. The crown was adorned with figures of Graces and the Seasons. A Roman imperial coin of Antoninus Pius shows us on a reduced ...
Asunci6N
Britannica 11th... ank of the Paraguay river in 25° 16' 04' S., 57° 42' 40' W., and 970 m. above Buenos Aires. Pop. (est. in 1900) 52,000. The port is connected with Buenos Aires and Montevideo by regular lines of river steamers, which are its only means of trade communication w ...
Auchmuty, Sir Samuel
Britannica 11th... -general. Auchmuty was one of the few officers who came out of the disastrous Buenos Aires expedition of 1806-7 with enhanced reputation. While General Whitelocke, the commander, was cashiered, Auchmuty was at once re-employed and promoted major-general, and w ...
Euboea
Britannica 11th... ly on the E., and is continued south of Euboca in the lofty islands of Andros, Tenos and Myconos. The principal peaks of this range are grouped in three knots which divide the island into three portions. Towards the north, opposite the Locrian territory, the h ...
Germany
Britannica 11th... local societies are affiliated to one large parent body, the Deutsche Kunstlergenosscnschafl, in Berlin under the presidency of Anton von Werner. The Deutsche lllustratorcnverband watches over the interests of illustrators and designers. In Munich there are t ...
I59
Britannica 11th... ,596 The principal towns, with estimated population for 1905, are as follows: Buenos Aires (1,025,653), Rosario (129,121), La Plata (85,000), Tucuman (55,000), C6rdoba (43,000), Sante F6 (33,200), Mendoza (32,000), Parana (27,000), Salta (18,000), Corrientes ( ...
I895-
Britannica 11thPop. est. for 1904. Provinces — Federal Capital Buenos Aires . "7,778 663,854 921,168 979,235 1,312,953 Santa Fe . 50-916 397,188 640,755 Entre Rios 28,784 292,019 367,006 Corrientes. 32,580 239,618 299,479 C6rdoba ... 62,160 351,223 465,464 San Luis ... 28,53 ...
Sutton
Britannica 11th... ICHARD (d. c. 1524), the founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a good north-country family, the Suttons of that ilk, near Macclesfield, Cheshire. Little i ...
Thargelia
Britannica 11th... a tripod. Further, on this day adopted persons were solemnly received into the genos and phratria of their adoptive parents (see APATURIA). See Preller- Robert, Griechische Mythologie, i. (1894); G. F. Schomann, Griechische Alterthumer (4th ed. by J. H. Lipsiu ...
Theatre
Britannica 11th... hard Wegener, Die Buhneneinrichtung des Shakespeareschen Theaters nach dem zeitgenossischen drama (Halle, 1907); George F. Reynolds, Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging (Chicago University, 1905); E. K. Chambers, " The Stage of the Globe," in vol. x. of the ...
Theology
Britannica 11th... t emphasis on the manhood. A. Rjtschl3 even speaks of the Reformed as teaching Kenosis in the modern sense; but it is to be feared they rather taught alternately the manhood and the Godhead than made a serious effort to show the compatibility of divine and hum ...
Traherne
Britannica 11th... , according to Anthony a Wood, a " shoemaker's son of Hereford." He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1652, and after receiving his degree in 1656 took holy orders. In the following year he was appointed rector of Credenhill, near Hereford, and in 1661 rec ...
Unterwalden
Britannica 11th... Geschichtsblatter (Zurich, from 1901); W. Oechsli, Die Anfdnge d. schweiz. Eidgenossenschaft (Zurich, 1891); H. Ryffel, Die schweiz. Landsgemeinden (Zurich, 1903); J. Sowerby, The Forest Cantons of Switzerland (London, 1892). (W. A. B. C.)
Vii
Britannica 11th... Chilean rivers Manso, Puelo, Fetaleufu, Palena, Pico and Aisen, and the lakes Buenos Aires, Pueyrredon and San Martin, to avoid the inclusion of Argentine settlements within Chilean territory, to the Cerro Fitzroy and continental waterparting north-west of Lak ...