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ETON, a town of Buckinghamshire, England, on the north left) bank of the river Thames, opposite Windsor, within which parliamentary borough it is situated. Pop. of urban district (1901) 3301. It is famous for its college, the largest of the ancient Engtish pub ...

... causes (e.g. Lucretius vi. 639 seq.; Lucilius, Aetna, 511 seq.). Ascents ETNA— ETON oi the mountain were nol infrequent in those days — one was nude by Hadrian. Sc« Sartoriu-i von \\.iltcrshauscn, Atlas del Alna (Leipzig, 1880); viaix, C>trta \'oka*olo[i«i t ...

TRENTON, a city and the county-seat of Grundy county, Missouri, U.S.A., on the E. fork of the Grand River, in the north central part of the state, about 100 m. N.E. of Leavenworth. Pop. (1890), 5039; (1900), 5396, including 192 foreign-born and 200 negroes; (1

... len Colleges, Oxford, in the new chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, and in Eton College. In Jesus College, Cambridge, the transept and a short nave constitute the ante-chapel; in Clare College an octagonal vestibule serves the same purpose; and in Christ' ...

... d calcareous substance to which the name coral is applied is the supporting skeleton of certain members of the A nthozoa, one of the classes of the phylum Coelentera. The most familiar Anthozoan is the common sea-anemone, Actinia equina, L.. and it will serve, ...

... C.H,<^|{|>C,H,. Anthracene has also been obtained by heating ortho-tolylphenyl ketone with zinc dust /CH, I< x:oc, (Ml, -H.O+C.H, :OC,H, Anthracene crystallizes in colourless monoclinic tables which show a fine blue fluorescence. It melts at 213° C. and boils ...

... o. When fused with caustic potash, it gives benzoic acid. It behaves more as a ketone than as a quinone, since with hydroxylamine it yields an oxime, and on reduction with zinc dust and caustic soda it yields a secondary alcohol, whilst it cannot be reduced by ...

... or the betrayal of the king's army by Lord Inchiquin.1 Subsequently he joined Ireton, and was present at the siege of Carlow. He returned to England in December 1650, and in lieu of his confiscated estate received a pension of £500 and later of £800, together ...

... ssociated with this pretended worship. The people, says APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS Suetonius (Jul. Cats. c. 88), fully believed in the divinity of Julius Caesar, hinting at the same time that this was by no means the case with the majority of the apotheoses subsequ ...

... ed to live in history as the pioneer of a new philology. In February 1758 a skeleton was dug up at Knaresborough, and some suspicion arose that it might be Clark's. Aram's wife had more than once hinted that her husband and a man named Houseman knew the secret ...

... ly the objects associated with the burial have been preserved, but also the skeleton itself. This has been examined, measurements taken and recorded for comparison, and inferences made, sometimes of a surprising character. For example, if a cemetery be found w ...

... d the fore limb of an animal. (See ANATOMY : Superficial and A rtistic, and SKELETON : A ppendiculor.) The word is also used of any projecting limb, as of a crane, or balance, of a branch of a tree, and so, in a transferred sense, of the branch of a river or a ...

... armillary sphere survives as useful for teaching, and may be described as a skeleton celestial globe, the series of rings representing the great circles of the heavens, and revolving on an axis within a horizon. With the earth as centre such a sphere is known ...

... Isles, fleeing (it is said) from the Saxons; and the Celtic dialect which the Bretons still speak is thought to owe its origin to these immigrants. (See further BRITTANY.)

... in 1787-1788. The son studied for a time at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and served as a major in the War of Independence. In March 1783, while the Continental army was stationed at Newburgh (q.v.), New York, he wrote and issued, anony ...

... her being an upholsterer. Intended for the legal profession, he was educated at Eton, and afterwards apprenticed to an attorney for three years. His natural inclination for music, however, proved irresistible, and his father, finding from his performance at an ...

... n 45 B.C. It appears to have been unhealthy even in Roman times; according to Suetonius, both Augustus and Tiberius contracted here the illnesses which proved fatal to them. See T. Ashby, in Melanges de l'£cole Franchise de Rome (1905), p. 207. (T. As.)

... athletic sports, but the example was not followed until about 1840, when Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich came to the front, the " Crick Run " at Rugby having been started in 1837. At the two great English universities ...

... .v.), of Lyonnesse (q.v.), the sunken land off the Cornish coast, of the lost Breton city of Is, and of Mayda or Asmaide — the French Isle Verte and Portuguese Ilka Verde or " Green Island " — which appears in many folk-tales from Gibraltar to the Hebrides, an ...

... Durham, and of Mary, daughter of William Davison, was born in 1745, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. and called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1768. In 1771 he published Principles of Penal Law, and was early recognized as an authority on commer ...

... as added by Walafrid Strabo. Written in imitation of the Df vilis Caesantm of Suetonius, this is the best contemporary account of the life of Charlemagne, and could only have been written by one who was very intimate with the emperor and his court. It is, more ...

... wall, 65 ft. in circumference, made of uncemented stone flags. Nearly fifty skeletons were discovered, mostly lying upon charred logs, surrounded with cinerary urns filled with partially burned bones. A great variety of bronze decorations and glazed clay pearl ...

... was born at Hoxton on the i.|i li of June 1814. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in high mathematical honours. He was connected with many learned societies as member or president, and was governor of Uni ...

... was founded in 1557. The New River flows through the parish, and Sir Hugh Myddleton, its projector, was for some time resident here. Middleton House, named after him, is oneof severalfine mansions in the vicinity. Of these, Forty Hall, in splendidly timbered ...

... , rhinoceros and hyena were discovered in association with parts of a man's skeleton and a human skull. This, known as " the Engis Skull," gave rise to much discussion among anthropologists, since it has characteristics of both high and low development, the fo ...

... Alabama (and Vicksburg?). ri -i~ • i Claiborne series. Middle Claibonuan } Buhretonc ^^ I Chickasawan Sands and lignites. ) Midwayan or Clayton formation, limestones. The above succession is not fully represented in the Atlantic coast On "the Pacific coast ma ...

... ions, mostly annotated, of Xenophon's Memorabilia (1737), Cicero (1737-1739), Suetonius (1748), Tacitus (1752), the Clouds of Aristophanes (1754), Homer (1759-1764), Callimachus (1761), Polybius (1764), as well as of the Ouaestura of Conadus, the Greek lexicon ...

... rythrose or tetrose, which is probably a mixture of a trioxyaldehyde and trioxyketone. Energetic oxidation gives erythritic acid and mesotartaric acid. i-Erythrite and the racemic mixture of the dextro and laevo varieties were synthesized by Griner in 1893 fro ...

... ts flat retreating curve with an index of 73-76; and the two nearly perfect skeletons found at Spy (Belgium), the skulls of which exhibit enormous brow ridges with cranial indices of 70 and 75. All these skulls, taken in conjunction with other well-authenticat ...

... Hetaria." maternum (b) = cognomen of mother. e.g. vetnal, " of Vetui," or " of Vetonia," hesual, " of Hesui." maternum (c) = agnomen of mother. e.g. cumerunias, " of Cumerunia," i.e. " of a daughter of the cumeru-family." (7) maritale — (i.) nomen, or (ii.) co ...

... y to have a bower in that suit. The dealer, if he adopts, should discard a singleton, unless it is an ace. If the dealer's score is three, only a very strong hand justifies one in " ordering up." It is generally wise in play to discard a singleton and not to u ...

... ed by . . U i Irish. it ) EneorGaelk. (c i Mmx. ' UYM,. **H ) Cornish. fy Low Breton 6. TEUTONIC branch, represented by . ••(i ) Gothic. f"P ) Norse or Old None. (c i Icelandic and Faerone. Scandinavian (d ) Norwegian. (1 i Swedish. Danish. '**U ) Saxon, Anglo ...

... recension, the former in a Syriac in (published with English translation by Cureton, 1861), the Utter in the original Greek attached to the Church History in most MSS. (printed with the History in the various editions). The Life of Constantine, in four books, ...

... hed, from the surface of which the free portions of the zooids project. The skeleton of the Alcyonacea consists of separate calcareous spicules, which are often, especially in the Nephthyidae, so abundant and so closely interlocked as to form a tolerably firm ...

... , e.g. sugar of lead, but it is now restricted to certain oxyaldehydes and oxy-ketones, which occur in the vegetable and animal kingdoms either free or in combination as glucosides (q.v.) and to artificial preparations of similar chemical structure. Cane sugar ...

... J. S. Reid, 1882); Ad Fam. ix. 10, xv. 17; Dip Cassius xxxvi. 44, xxxvii. 25; Suetonius, Caesar, 9; Caesar, Bell, civ., iii. 51, 89; Appian, Bell. civ. ii. 76.

... 7) that in Caesar's absence his legislation of this kind was not attended to. Suetonius tells us that Caesar had officers stationed in the market-places to seize such provisions as were forbidden by law, and sent lictors and soldiers to feasts to remove all il ...

... illation of wood a series of products, including gas, tar, pyroligneous acid, acetone, wood spirit (see METHYL ALCOHOL) and charcoal may be obtained, and any of these may be the primary object of the operation. The carbonization of wood can be effected in two ...

... onding power stations erected at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and at Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. In 1902 Marconi was able to transmit a large number of messages across the Atlantic, receiving them by means of his magnetic detector. In the same year numerou ...

... al. Rafael Gonzales, provisional. Victor Blanco. Jose Maria Viesca. Jose Maria Letona. Francisco Vidauri y Villasenor, provisional. Augustin yiesca. Henry Smith, provisional Period of the Republic (1836-46)* David G. Burnet, provisional Sam Houston Mirabeau B. ...