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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Iim
Britannica 11thHis first acts on coming to the throne caused patriotic Englishmen to despair. His father, on his deathbed, had made him swear to conduct the Scottish expedition to its end. But he marched no further than Dumfries, and then turned back, on the vain pretext tha
Animism
Britannica 11thANIMISM (from animus, ur anima, mind or toul), acn.r.ln^ to thetleiuiiiiimni 1'r K.H.Tylor, the <1<H I rine of spiritual beings, including human souls; in practice, however, the term is often extended to include panlhclism or animalism, the doctrine that a gre ...
Archon
Britannica 11th... n invented sortition for the office is put as the basis of a comparison (600', aiimiov) and, therefore, may fairly be regarded as a hypothesis; (3) there is no indication that the change made in 487 B.C. was a return to an obsolete method, and on the same argu ...
Aristotle
Britannica 11th... lexander and I 'hrndrcies. Those on politics (Fragm. 646-648} were designed tn iiiMruit Alexander on monarchy ami on nilonii.it inn; ami in them Aristotle agreed with Plato in assigning a moral object to the Mate, but departed from him by saying that a king ne ...
Arteries
Britannica 11th... d the posterior convolution!* of the |uriet.il loU-s. (h) Thyroid axis, which iTiimo.li.it; : . into the inferior thyroid, the supra-scapular, and the transverse cervical branches; the inferior thyroid supplies the thyroid body, and gives off an ascending cerv ...
Astronomy
Britannica 11th... of the significance of the subject. The fundamental hypothesis of the science aMiime* a ivttem of die* in motion, of which the *un a examples, and of which each searate bodie* in motion, of which the *un and planet* may be taken a* examples, and of which each ...
Asturias
Britannica 11th... ASYLUM natural y mttlifa it Ailurias (Ovicdo. IQOO). For the bbtory and • niriuiim. (here i» much thai it valuable in *H ituriai momumfnlaJ, tptt'djua y diplomdlica. Ac., bv C. M. Vigil (Madrid. 1887)with map* and illu.iraiioiw. See al»o F. de Aramburu y Xulu ...
Austria
Britannica 11th... m "I MMtfy art tinmanufacture of chrmifaU, in Vienna and in linheim.i ; |»it..!riim . rir»in('.ali< u. un.l ttieexir.u ti..n .-I \.irimi-. |«'ir..lrutii |.I-M|IH i. the manufacture of tuition*: punting, lithographing, engraving, and map-making, especially in V ...
Europe
Britannica 11th... g . Stettin St Petersburg Distance in Nautical Milts from Port Said. 13M 43"" M.IIM'lllc< •CIM.I Vrnii-e Bnmlisi . «33<> An enormous amount of investigation with regard to European ethnology has been carried on in recent years. These labours nrMs-r have chiefl ...
G H
Britannica 11th... ving Doubter. urning will soon bring the intensities to their maximum, which is iimt«lbyanexplo8ionbctwcenthcplates"(^M-''''a'w-> 1788, p. 405). Nicholson described also another apparatus, the " spinning ondenscr," which worked on the same principle. Bennet an ...
Hathoe
Britannica 11th... , who appeared shortly after the birth of an infant, and predicted his future. KIIM-M or KHNOUM, a ram-headed god, whose principal place of worship was the island of Elephantine (there associated with Satis and Anukis). but also revered elsewhere, e.g. togethe ...
Theatre
Britannica 11th... f recent times is given. Albert Miiller's Lehrbuch der griechischen Buhnenaltertiimer (Freiburg, 1886) is indispensable to the student. For the Roman theatre reference may be made to Durm. Baukunst der Romer, ed. 2, pp. 64S ff. G- H. M.; H. S. J.) THE MODERN T ...
Theodulf
Britannica 11th... ol. Lat., vol. 105 (Paris, 1851). The best edition of his poetry is that of E. Diimmler in the Man. Germ. Hist. Poetae latini aevi carolini, vol. i. (Berlin, 1881). See C. Cuissard, Theodulphe eveque cf Orleans, sa vie et ses osuvres, (Orleans, 1892) ; and a c ...
United States
Britannica 11th... agration which in 1906 Japanese destroyed the business parts and much of the resiimmigra- dence section of San Francisco, but also by municipal tloa' regulations there against the presence of Japanese in the public schools. The incident seemed to threaten grav ...