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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Philip Howard
Britannica 11thPHILIP HOWARD, ist earl1 of Arundel (1557-1 593)1 eldest son of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, executed for high treason in 1572, and of Lady Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, I2th earl of Arundel, was born on the 28th of June 1557. He was mar ...
Armada
Britannica 11th... incible Armada was the great fleet (in Spanish, armada) sent against England by Philip II. in 1 588. The marquis of Santa Cruz, to whom the command had first been given, died on the 0th of February 1588 (according to the Gregorian calendar then used by Spain; ...
United States
Britannica 11th... ,972,266, the total, including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, but excluding the Philippine Islands, Guam, Samoa and the Canal Zone, was 93,402,151. Continental United States, exclusive of Alaska. Population enumerated. Areas (excluding water), in, square miles ...
Antequera
Britannica 11th... ing churches and palaces, it contains a fine arch, erected in 1595 in honour of Philip II., and partly constructed of inscribed Roman masonry. In the eastern suburbs there is one of the largest grave-mounds in Spain, said to be of prehistoric date, and with su ...
Antonius
Britannica 11th... tunity of indulging in the most extravagant excesses, depicted by Cicero in the Philippics. In 46 he seems to have taken offence because Caesar insisted on payment for the property of Pompey which Antony professedly had purchased, but had in fact simply approp ...
Apamea
Britannica 11th... d a neighbouring mountain with Ararat. The famous " Noah " coins of the emperor Philip commemorate this belief. The site is now partly occupied by Dineir (q.r., sometimes locally known also as Gciklar, " the gazelles," perhaps from a tradition of the Persian h ...
Aparri
Britannica 11thAPARRI, a town of the province of Cagayan, Luzon, Philip pine Islands, on the Grande de Cagayan river near its mouth, about 55 m. N. of Tuguegarao, the capital. Pop. (1903) 18,252. The valley is one of the largest tobacco-producing sections in the Philippines; ...
Apostle
Britannica 11th... ry in the Gospels and in Acts.1 Thus Eusebius describes as " evangelists " (cf. Philip the Evangelist in Acts xxi. 8, also Eph. iv. 1 1, 2 Tim. iv. 5) those who " occupied the first rank in the succession to the Apostles " in missionary work (Hist. Ecd. iii. 3 ...
Apostolic Fathers
Britannica 11th... 3). The like holds of Polycarp, who, in explaining that he writes to exhort the Philippians only at their own request, adds, " for neither am I, nor is any other like me, able to follow the wisdom of the blessed and glorious Paul " (iii. 2). Clement's epistle, ...
Apostolici
Britannica 11th... hments on Mount Kubcllo, and the pope at once announced the happy event to King Philip the Fair. At Vcrcclli Dolcino suffered a horrible punishim-m. He was torn in pieces with red-hot pincers — the torture lasting an entire day — while Marghcrita was burned at ...
Apotheosis
Britannica 11th... , such as Lycurgus, or worship of the living as true deities, e.g. Lysander and Philip II. of Macedon, occurred sporadically even before Alexander's conquests brought Greek life into contact with oriental traditions. It was inevitable, too, that ancient monarc ...
Aquaviva
Britannica 11th... successfully quelled a revolt among the Spanish Jesuits, which was supported by Philip II., and he made use in this matter of Parsons. A more difficult task was the management of Sixtus V., who was hostile to the Society. By consummate tact and boldness Aquavi ...
Arago
Britannica 11th... ontributions to all departments of physical science, — but on the fall of Louis Philippe he left his laboratory to join in forming the provisional government. He was entrusted with the discharge of two important functions, that had never before been united in ...
Aranjuez
Britannica 11th... rk English elms, first introduced into the country and planted here by order of Philip II. (1527-1598), gives to the Aranjuez district a character wholly distinct from that of other Spanish landscapes; and at an early period, despite the unhealthy climate, and ...
Arbuthnot
Britannica 11th... Lord Chesterfield and William Pulteney were his patients and friends; also Mrs Howard (Lady Suffolk) and William Congreve. His friendship with Swift was constant and intimate; he was friend and adviser to Gay; and Pope wrote (2nd of August 1 734) that in a fr ...
Archibald Campbell
Britannica 11th... by his young son Archibald (1576-1638), who became a Roman Catholic, fought for Philip III. of Spain in Flanders, whither he had gone to avoid his creditors, and, having entrusted the care of his estates to his son, died in London.
Argos
Britannica 11th... -pressed in turn by their old foes the Argives were among the first to call in Philip of Macedon, who reinstated them in Cynuria after becoming master of Greece. In the Lamian War Argos was induced to side with the patriots against Macedonia; after its captur ...
Argyll. Earls And Dukes Of
Britannica 11th... by his young son Archibald (1576-1638), who became a Roman Catholic, fought for Philip III. of Spain in Flanders, whither he had gone to avoid his creditors, and, having entrusted the care of his estates to his son, died in London. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ist marq ...
Aristotle
Britannica 11th... ing the archonship of Eubulus (345-344) he moved to Mitylene, whence he went to Philip of Macedon in the archonship of Pythodotu* (343-342), and spent eight years with him as tutor of Alexander. After the death of Philip (336), in the archonship of Euaenetus ( ...
Armour
Britannica 11thARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901), American merchant and philanthropist, was born in Stockbridge, New York, on the i6th of May 1832. He was educated at Cazenovia Academy, Cazenovia, N.Y., worked for several years on his father's farm, and in 1852 with a smal ...
Arnauld
Britannica 11th... (1560-1619), a leader of the Paris bar; in this capacity he delivered a famous philippic against the Jesuits in 1594, accusing them of gross disloyalty to the newly converted Henry IV. This speech was afterwards known as the original sin of the Arnaulds. Of h ...
Arndt
Britannica 11th... s been held in very high repute by the German Pietists. The founder of Pietism, Philipp Jacob Spener, repeatedly called attention to him and his writings, and even went so far as to compare him with Plato (cf. Karl Scheele, Plato und Johann Arndt, Ein Vortrag, ...
Arnhem
Britannica 11th... by Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1505 it received the right of coining from Philip, son of the emperor Maximilian. I. In 1514 Charles of Egmont, duke of Gelderland. took it from the Spaniards; but in 1543 it fell to the emperor Charles V., who made it the ...
Arses
Britannica 11th... c dynasty by the mother of Ptolemy I. This Arsinoe was originally a mistress of Philip II. of Macedon, who presented her to a Macedonian soldier Loqus shortly before Ptolemy was born. It was, therefore, assumed by the Macedonians that the Ptolemaic house was r ...
Artaxerxes
Britannica 11th... ed by his brothersin-law, Mentor and Memnon of Rhodes, was defeated and fled to Philip of Macedon. Athens, whose general Chares had supported Artabazus, was by the threatening messages of the king forced to conclude peace, and to acknowledge the independence o ...
Artevelde. Jacob Van
Britannica 11th... o maintain an armed neutrality in the dynastic struggle between Edward III. and Philip VI. of France. His efforts were successful. Bruges, Yprcs and other towns formed a league with Ghent, in which town Artevelde, with the title of captaingeneral, henceforth u ...
Arundell Of Wardour
Britannica 11th... he had Thomas, who succeeded him as 2nd baron; and (2) Anne, daughter of Miles Philipson, by whom he had several daughters. HENRY ARUNDELL, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 16071694), son of Thomas, 2nd baron, and of Blanche, daughter of Edward, earl of Worc ...
Astronomy
Britannica 11th... application to them in i8og of Lagrange's theory of the variation of constants; Philippe de PonUcoulant successfully used in 1829, for the prediction of the l»np«"ytipg return of 1 (alley's comet, a system of " mechanical quadrature* " published by Lagrange in ...
Atlanta
Britannica 11th... ickly realized this, and the Army of the Tennessee, now commanded by Gen. O. O. Howard, was counter-marched from left to right, until it formed up on the right of the Union Unc about Ezra Church (about 4 m. west of Atlanta). The railway from Chattanooga to Atl ...
Audley
Britannica 11th... t Church in London and the abbey of Walden in Essex, where his grandson, Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, built Audley End, doubtless named after him. In 1542 he re-endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of St Mary Magdalen ...
Australasia
Britannica 11th... ore than half-way across the Pacific. Its chief divisions are Malaysia with the Philippines; Australia with Tasmania and New Zealand; Melanesia, that is, New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Admiralty, the Solomons, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz. Fiji, Loyalties a ...
Baron
Britannica 11th... he had Thomas, who succeeded him as 2nd baron; and (2) Anne, daughter of Miles Philipson, by whom he had several daughters.
Dc. 17
Britannica 11th... thern France for twenty years to an English master. The young duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, and his supporters in Paris and the north, were so incensed with the dauphin's cruel treachery that they resolved that he should never inherit his mctaowfathcr's c ...
Einbeck
Britannica 11th... " whence the familiar " Bock "). In 1540 the Reformation was introduced by Duke Philip of BrunswickSaltzderhelden (d. 1551), with the death of whose son Philip II. (1596) the Grubenhagen line became extinct. In 1626, during the Thirty Years' War, Einbeck was t ...
Electricity
Britannica 11th... ibutions from innumerable workers, such as F. T. Trouton, O. J. Lodge and J. L. Howard, and many others. Eltttric Waves. — In the decade 1880-1800, the most important advance in electrical physics was, however, that which originated with the astonishing resear ...
Emmanuel Philibert
Britannica 11th... d Savigliano should be evacuated, which was carried out at the end of the year. Philip of Spain was likewise induced to evacuate Asti and Santhia in 1575. Thus, after being more or less under foreign occupation for 39 years, the duchy was at last free. The duk ...
Energy
Britannica 11th... of Condc, and of Louise Marie Thfiresc Mathilde, sister of the duke of Orleans (Philippe Egalit£), and was born at Chantilly on the 2nd of August 1772. 'He was educated privately by the abb£ Millot, and received a military training fromthecommodore de Virieux. ...
Eocene
Britannica 11th... h Persia, Baluchistan, India, into China, Tibet, Japan, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines. The nummulitic limestones are frequently hard and crystalline, especially where they have been subjected to elevation and compression as in the Alpine region, 10,000 f ...
Epitaph
Britannica 11th... n wrote some very beautiful English epitaphs, as, for example, the following on Philips, a musician: — " Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power or hapless love; Rest here, distressed by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou ...
Erasmus, Desiderius
Britannica 11th... mong his friends being the future Pope Adrian VI. In January 1 504 the archduke Philip gave him fifty livres for the Panegyric which " ung religieuxdel'ordredeSt Augustin " had composed on his Spanish journey; and in October, ten more, for the maintenance of h ...