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Americana 1920

The Encyclopedia Americana · 1920 edition

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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Pi

Britannica 11th

PI. 10. tt. ttumy. vtyn. I, late IP. tt. tt. A kwl. The pseudo-participle seems, by its inflexion, to have been the perfect of the original Semitic conjugation. The simplest form being that of the 3rd person, it is best arranged like the corresponding tense in ...

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Pig. 5

Britannica 11th

PIG. 5. horizontal solenia unite to B. Diagrammatic longitudinal section of a corallite. showing two platforms. £,nd Simn,e anclcup-fhaped^bulae, ,. (After S. J. H,ckson.) their consists of loose spicules. In the Tubiporidae the spicules of the proximal part o ...

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A B

Britannica 11th

... hnida, are present. The Pantopoda stand in the same relation to Limului and Scorpio that Cyamus holds to the thoracostracous Crustacea. The reduction at the organism to seven leg -bearing somite*, of which the first pair, an in so many Eu-araehnida. are chelat ...

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Abakan

Britannica 11th

... ccession of 227 native princes down to modern times. According to them, their empire had at one period far wider limits, and extended over Ava, part of China, and a portion of Bengal. This extension of their empire is not, however, corroborated by known facts ...

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Al R

Britannica 11th

... are identical in the structure and relation of so many important parts with Scorpio, whilst differing in those respects from other Arthropoda, that it is impossible to suppose that the identity is due to homoplasy or convergence, and the conclusion must be acc ...

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Alexandre Chatrian

Britannica 11th

... connexion with Alsatian peasant life. They are marked by a genuine democratic spirit, and by real patriotism, which developed after 1870 into hatred of the Germans. The authors attacked militarism by depicting the horrors of war in the plainest terms. See als ...

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Angola

Britannica 11th

... auna. — Both flora and fauna are those characteristic of the greater part of tropical Africa. As far south as Benguella the coast region is rich in oil-palms and mangroves. In the northern part of the province are dense forests. In the south towards the Kunenc ...

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Angoulbmb

Britannica 11th

... rs to have been very displeasing to Auvergne, and in 1601 he engaged in the conspiracy formed by the dukes of Savoy, Biron and Bouillon, one of the objects of which was to force Henry to repudiate his wife and marry the marchioness. The conspiracy was discover ...

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Angouleme

Britannica 11th

ANGOULEME. a city of south-western France, capital of the department of Charente, 83 m. N.N.E. of Bordeaux on the railway between Bordeaux and Poitiers. Pop. (1006) 30,040. The town proper occupies an elevated promontory, washed on the north by the Charente an ...

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Angoumois

Britannica 11th

... nce of France, nearly corresponding to-day to the department of Charente. Its capital was Angouleme. See Essai d'une bibliothtque historique de fAngoumois, by E. Castaigne (1845).

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Angra

Britannica 11th

... o commemorate its successful defence against the Miguelist party), the former capital of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, and chief town of an administrative district, comprising the islands of Terceira, St George and Graciosa. Pop. (1000) 10,788. Ang ...

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Anguier

Britannica 11th

... rble group of the Nativity in the church of Val de Grace was reckoned his masterpiece. From 1662 to 1667 he directed the progress of the sculpture and decoration in this church, and it was he who superintended the decoration of the apartments of Anne of Austri ...

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Angus, Earls of

Britannica 11th

ANGUS, EARLS OP. Angus was one of the seven original earldoms of the Pictish kingdom of Scotland, said to have been occupied by seven brothers of whom Angus was the eldest. The Critic line ended with Matilda (fl. 1240), countess of Angus in her own right, who ...

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Anhalt

Britannica 11th

ANHALT, a duchy of Germany, and a constituent state of the German empire, formed, in 1863, by the amalgamation of the two duchies Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen and Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603. The ...

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... ge. In 1698 he married Anna Luise Fose, an apothecary's daughter of Dessau, in spite of his mother's long and earnest opposition, and subsequently he procured for her the rank of a princess from the emperor (1701). Their married life was long and happy, and th ...

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Anhydrite

Britannica 11th

... d, in 1704, in a salt mine near Hall in Tirol. Other localities which produce typical specimens of the mineral, and where the mode of occurrence is the same, are Stassfurt in Germany, Aussee in Styria and Bex in Switzerland. At all these places it is only met ...

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Ani

Britannica 11th

... ft., between the Arpa-chai (Horfxuiu) and a deep ravine. In 961 it became the capital of the Bagratid kings of Armenia, and when yielded to the Byzantine emperor (1046) it was a populous city, known traditionally as the " city with the loot churches." It was t ...

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Aniline

Britannica 11th

... ate forms beautiful white plates. Although aniline is but feebly basic, it precipitates zinc, aluminium and ferric salts, and on wanning expels ammonia from its salts. Aniline combines directly with alkyl iodides to form secondary and tertiary amines; boiled w ...

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Animal Heat

Britannica 11th

... at the nervous median- 97 e ism of heat regulation has become paralysed. The respiration and heart-rate being »7-2 also retarded during this period, the resemblance to the condition of hibernation is considerable. Again, Sutherland Simpson has shown that durin ...

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Animal Worship

Britannica 11th

... and individual cults of tutelary animals; (vii.) cults of tree and vegetation spirits; (viii.) cults of ominous animals; (ix.) cults, probably derivative, of animals associated with certain deities; (x.) cults of animals used in magic. (i.) The pastoral type ...

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Animism

Britannica 11th

... 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 great part, if not the whole, of th ...

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Animuccia. Giovanni

Britannica 11th

... 571. He was succeeded by Palestrina, who had been his friend and probably his pupil. The manuscript of many of Animuccia's compositions is still preserved in the Vatican Library. His chief published works were Madrigali e Uotetti a quatlro e cinque toci (Ven. ...

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Animé

Britannica 11th

... the locust tree, Hymenaea coumaril, and other species of Hymenaea growing in tropical South America. It is of a pale brown colour, transparent, brittle, and in consequence of its agreeable odour is used for fumigation and in perfumery. Its specific gravity var ...

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Anise

Britannica 11th

ANISE (Pimpinella Anisum), an umbelliferous plant found in Egypt and the Levant, and cultivated on the continent of Europe for medicinal purposes. The officinal part of the plant is the fruit, which consists of two united carpels, called a cremocarp. It is kno ...

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Anjar

Britannica 11th

ANJAR. a fortified town of India, and the capital of a district of the same name in the native state of Cutch, in the presidency of Bombay. The country is dry and sandy, and entirely depends on well irrigation for its water supply. The town is situated nearly ...

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Anklam

Britannica 11th

... though it contains several, private as well as public, that are of a quaint and picturesque style of architecture. The church of St Mary (i2th century) has a modern tower, 335 ft. high. The industries consist of iron-foundries and factories for sugar and soap; ...

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Ankober

Britannica 11th

ANKOBER, a town in, and at one time capital of, the kingdom of Shoa, Abyssinia, 90 m. N.E. of Adis Ababa, in 9° 34' N., 39° 54' E., on a mountain about 8500 ft. above the sea. Ankober was made (c. 1800) by Menelek II. the place of detention of political prison ...

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Ant-Lion

Britannica 11th

... o neuroptcrous insects of the family \fyrmcltonidac, with relatively short and apically clubbed antennae and four large densely reticulated wings in which the apical veins enclose regular oblong spaces. The perfect insects are for the most part nocturnal and a ...

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Antae

Britannica 11th

... possibly from anU, before), an architectural term given to slightly projecting pilaster strips which terminate the winged walls of the naos of a Greek temple. They owe their origin to the vertical posts of timber employed in the primitive palaces or temples o ...

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Antananarivo

Britannica 11th

ANTANANARIVO, i.e. "town of a thousand" (Fr. spelling Tananarive), the capital of Madagascar, situated centrally as regards the length of the island, but only about 90 m. distant from the eastern coast, in 18° 55' S., 47° 30' E. It is 135 m. W.S.W. of Tamatave ...

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Antarctic

Britannica 11th

... opposite, and &pxrot, the Bear, the northern constellation of Una Major), the epithet applied to the region (including both the ocean and the lands) round the South Pole. The Antarctic circle is drawn at 66° 30' S., but polar conditions of climate, &c., exten ...

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Anteater

Britannica 11th

... to several mammals, but (zoologically at any rate) specially indicating the tropical American anteaters of the family Uyrmecopkagidae (see EDENTATA). The typical and largest representative of the group is the great anteater or ant-bear (Myrmecopkagajubata) , ...

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Antemnae

Britannica 11th

... bo's time was a mere village. The site is one of great strength, and is now occupied by a fort, in the construction of which traces of the outer walls and of huts, and several wells and a cistern, all belonging to the primitive village, were discovered, and al ...

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Antenor

Britannica 11th

... f Patavium. Homer, Iliad, iii. 148. vii. 347: Horace. Epp. i. a. 9; Livy i. I ; Pindar, Pytkio, v. 83; Virgil. At*, i. 343.

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Antequera

Britannica 11th

... . by the Sierra de los Torcales, and on the N. by the river Guadalhorce. It occupies a commanding position, while the remains of its walls, and of a fine Moorish castle on a rock that overhangs the town, show how admirably its natural defences were supplemente ...

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Anteros

Britannica 11th

... ks at the end of the year 235. Me died on the 3rd of January 236. His original epitaph was discovered in the Catacombs.

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Anthelion

Britannica 11th

... Gr. dvftjXios, opposite the sun), the luminous ring or halo sometimes seen in Alpine or polar regions surrounding the shadow of the head of an observer cast upon a bank of cloud or mist. The halo diminishes in brightness from the centre outwards, and is probab ...

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Anthem I Us

Britannica 11th

... lexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence; and Metrodorus was one of the distinguished grammarians of the great Eastern capital. It is related of Anthemius that, having a quarr ...

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New Gresham

The New Gresham Encyclopedia · Complete edition

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Astronomy

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