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Americana 1920
The Encyclopedia Americana · 1920 edition
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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
References
Britannica 11thREFERENCES. — Fritz t'irkcl. Asbestos, its recurrence. Exploitation andlhts (Ottawa, 1905) ; I. H. Pratt and J. S. Dillrr in Annual Reports on Mineral Resources. U.S. (.ml. Survey: <".. P. Merrill. The Nonmetallic Minerals (New York, 1904); R. H. Jones. Asbest ...
Anguier
Britannica 11th... x. See Henri Stein, LesfrZres Anguier (1889), with catalogue of works, and many references to original sources; Armand Sanson, Deux sculpteurs Normands: les freres Anguier (1889).
Animal Worship
Britannica 11th... worshipped a wolf-headed image. AUTHORITIES. — For a fuller discussion and full references to these and other cults, that of the serpent excepted, see N. W. Thomas in Hastings' Dictionary of Religions; Frazer, Golden Bough; Campbell's Spirit Basis of Belief an ...
Anti-Semitism
Britannica 11th... at. Rev., February 1901. On Hungary and the Tisza Eszlar Case, see (besides the references in Jacobs) Nathan. Drr Protest von Tisza Eszlar (Berlin, 1892). On this case and the Blood Accusation generally, see Wright, " The Jews and the Malicious Charge of Human ...
Apostolical Constitutions
Britannica 11th... , however, which needs to be sifted with the greatest care, since the personal preferences of the writer and the customs of the local church to which he belongs are continually mixed up with things which have a wider prevalence. It is only by careful investiga ...
Aral
Britannica 11th... 887; Prof. Mushketov, Turkestan, vol. i. (1886), which contains bibliographical references; Rosier, Die Aralseefrate (1873); Wood, The Shores of the Aral Lake (1876): and Berg in latstia, Turkestan Branch of Russian Ceog. Soc. (vol. iii., Tashkent, looa). (P. ...
Archchancellor
Britannica 11th... o Agilmar, archbishop of Vienne, as archchancellor, and there are several other references to archchancellors in various chronicles. This office existed in the German kingdom of Otto the Great, and about this time it appears to have become an appanage of the a ...
Aristotle
Britannica 11th... urselves the philosopher, constantly referring to his autograph rolls; entering references and cross-references; correcting, rewriting, collecting and arranging them according to their subjects; showing as well as reading them to his pupils; with little though ...
Artaxerxes
Britannica 11th... ns of Artaxerxes I. — III. with the Jews sec JEWS, {{19-21. For bibliographical references sec PERSIA: A ncient History. The name Artaxcrxes was adopted by Bcssus when he proclaimed himself king after the assassination of Darius HI. It was borne by several dyn ...
Asoka
Britannica 11th... together about five thousand words, are entirely of religious import, and their references to worldly affairs are incidental. They begin in the thirteenth year of his reign, and tell us that in the ninth year he had invaded Kalinga, and had been so deeply impr ...
Aubrey, John
Britannica 11th... drew Clark (Oxford, 1891-1900, vol. iv. pp. 191-193), which contain* many other references to Aubrey.
Eisenach
Britannica 11th... bung (Minden, 1900); and H. A. Daniel, Deutschland (Leipzig, 1895), and further references in U. Chevalier, " Repertoire des sources," &c., Topo-bibliogr. (Montbeliard, 1894-1899), s.v.
Electrophorus
Britannica 11th... ence Machine from 1788 to 1888," Journ. Inst. Tel. Ene., 1888, 17, p. 569. Many references to original papers connected with the electrophorus will be found in A. Winkelmann's Ilandbuch der Physik (Breslau, 1005), vol. iv. p. 48. (J. A. F.)
Ennius
Britannica 11th... orating with it much of the phraseology and sentiment of Ennius. The occasional references to Roman history in Lucretius are evidently reminiscences of the Annalts. He as well as Cicero speaks of him with pride and affection as " Ennius noster." Of the great R ...
Eocene
Britannica 11th... ed., 1906), which contains a good general account of the period, with numerous references to original papers. Also R. B. Newton, Systematic List of the Frederick E. Edwards Collection of British Oligocene and Eocene Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural His ...
Ephebi
Britannica 11th... and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites which contains further bibliographical references; G. Gilbert, The Constitutional Antiquities of Athens (Eng. tr., 1895); G. Busolt, Die griechischen Stoats- und Rechtsaltertumer (1892); T. Thalheim and J. Ohler in Paul ...
Equilibrium
Britannica 11th... isms by which complicated muscular movements are effected. Full bibliographical references are given in the article on " The Ear " by J. G. McKendrick, in Schafer's Textbook of Physiology, vol. ii. p. 1194. 0- G- M-)
Equites
Britannica 11th... i.; R. Cagnat in Daremberg and Saglio's Diclionnaire des antiquites, where full references to ancient authorities are given in the footnotes ; A. S. Wilkins in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed., 1891) ; E. Belot, Histoire des chevalier ...
Etruria
Britannica 11th... ische F orschungen, 1885-1804, csp. vol. iii., Die Venetcr, p. 218, where other references will be found, see also VENETI). $. The determination of the alphabet was followed by a large number of different attempts to explain the Etruscan forms from words in so ...
Europe
Britannica 11th... tions (notably as regards the Slav, Hungarian and Scandinavian countries) gives references to published documents for all names of people, however obscure, occurring in medieval history. In 1894 M. Chevalier began the publication of a second series of his Repe ...
P- 337-
Britannica 11th... IKIJHT on influence machines (to which this article is much indebted) and other references given, sec J. Clerk Maxwell, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2nd ed., Oxford, 1881), vol. i. p. 294; J. D. Everett, Electricity (expansion of part iii. of Dcschan ...
Sulla
Britannica 11th... s Life by Plutarch (who made use of the Memoirs) ; Appian, Bell. civ. ; for the references in Cicero see Orelli's Onomasticon Tullianum. Modern treatises by C. S. Zacharia, L. Cornelius S. als Ordner des romischen Freystaates (1834); T. Lau, Lucius Cornelius S ...
Talmud
Britannica 11th... i. and iii.), MIDRASH, TARGUM, and for more detailed and critical treatment the references given to the Jewish Encyclopedia. 'Mishnah stands in contrast to Miqra ("reading, scripture"); its Aram, equivalent is Mathnltha, from tena, " to repeat,' whence the app ...
Theology
Britannica 11th... gards th Stoics as having initiated a philosophical theology, and give numerous references for the " three theologies " which the] distinguished. Philo the Jew is also quoted as using 6*0X670 of poets, of Moses par excellence, and of Greek philosophers. I is p ...
Thor
Britannica 11th... ' Nordboernes Gudedyrkelse og Gudetro i Hedenold (Copenhagen, 1876). For other references see TEUTONIC PEOPLES: Religion (ad fin). (H. M. C.)
Tyre
Britannica 11th... awila (Metawila or Mutawileh) occupied the district in 1766. The most important references to Tyre in the Bible are I Kings v., vii., ix. ; Is. xxiii. ; Am. i. 9 seq.; Ezek. xxvi.-xxviii. ; 2 Mace. iv. 18 sqq.; Mark iii. 8, vii. 24 sqq. ; Matt. xi. 21 seq. (an ...
United States
Britannica 11th... rary of Congress publishes, under the editorship of A. P. C. Griffin, lists and references to books and articles on special subjects. General Accounts. — Much the most satisfactory treatment is in the volumes of the " American Nation Series " mentioned above, ...