Search the scanned history of knowledge.

ERODE, a town of British India, in the Coimbatore district of Madras, situated on the right bank of the river Cauvery, which is here crossed by an iron railway girder bridge of 22 spans. Pop. (1001) 15,529. Here the South Indian railway joins the South-Western ...

EPODE, in verse, the third part in an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement; it was called iwt?56s irtplodos by the Greeks. At a certain moment the choirs, which had chanted to right of the altar or stage and then to l

EUROPE, the smallest of those principal divisions of the land-surface of the globe which are usually distinguished by the conventional name of continents. i. GEOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS It has justly become a commonplace of geography to describe Europe as a mere

VERDEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 m. above its confluence with the Weser, 22m. S.E. of Bremen by the railway to Hanover. Pop. (1900) 9842. The most noticeable edifices are the beautiful Gothic cathedral,

... unded by Prussian territory, viz. Alsleben, Miihlingen,Dornburg,G6dnitz and Tilkerode-Abberode. The eastern and larger portion of the duchy is enclosed by the Prussian government district of Potsdam (in the Prussian jrovince of Brandenburg), and Magdeburg and ...

... the greatest poetical licence. Equally fantastic is her correspondence Die Gunderode (1840), with her unhappy friend, the poet, Karoline von Gtinderode (1780-1806), who committed suicide, and that with her brother Klemens Brentano, under the title Klemens Bre ...

... stitute of vegetation. At several points the crest of the range has been deeply eroded by old glaciers and running waters, and thus have been formed a number of devious passes. The central section, culminating in Tizi n 'Tagharat or Tinzar, a peak estimated at ...

... led Odea (Gr. qdelov, a place for singing). The best preserved is the Odeum of Herodes Atticus, at the south-west angle of the Athenian Acropolis, which has a semicircular orchestra. It was built in the reign of Hadrian by Herodes Atticus,1 a very wealthy Gree ...

... ligence. It has also been used in dwarfism, excessive obesity, psoriasis and scleroderma. When used in obesity an excess of nitrogenous food_ should be taken to balance the destruction of proteid. In certain forms of insanity, melancholia and climacteric insan ...

... , initiated by an uplift of moderate amount and in progress long enough only to erode narrow and relatively immature valleys. Glacial action complicated the work of the latest cycle in the northern part of the system. In view of all this it is possible to refe ...