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SULEIMAN II. (1641-1691), sultan of Turkey, was a son of Sultan Ibrahim, and succeeded his brother Mahommed IV. in 1687. Forty-six years of enforced retirement had qualified him for the cloister rather than for the throne, and his first feeling when notified o ...

SULEIMAN I.1 the "Magnificent" (1494-1566), sultan of Turkey, succeeded his father Selim I. in 1520. His birth coincided with the opening year of the loth century of Mussulman chronology (A.H. 900), the most glorious period in the history of Islam. Eventful as ...

SULEIMANIEH, or SULEIMANIA, the chief town of a sanjak of the same name in Asiatic Turkey, in the vilayet of Mosul, situated on a treeless plain in the Kurdistan Mountains, in the region known as Shehrizor, some 40 or 50 m. from the Persian frontier, at an ele ...

... s, and that as they were returning through the air, on a throne supported by genii, the bride implored the bridegroom to let her look back for a few moments on her beloved land. Solomon directed the genii to scoop out a hollow for the throne on the summit of t ...

EUGENIUS II., pope, was a native of Rome, and was chosen to succeed Pascal I. in 824. His election did not take place without difficulty. Eugenius was the candidate of the nobles, and the clerical faction brought forward a competitor. But the monk Wala, the re ...

... . 59. — Schizomus crassicaudatus, one of the Pedipalpi. Lateral view of a male. II to VI, the prosomatic appendages, the first being concealed (see fig. 58) ; 5, the fifth, and 1 1 , the eleventh tergites of the opisthosoma; pa, the conical post-anal lobe. (Or ...

... ith a very poor insight into their design were it not for the discovery of Pompeii (q.v.) and Herculaneum (q.v.). The descriptions given by Pliny of the lavish extravagance in the Roman nouses, and the employment of various Greek marbles in the shape of monoli ...

TABLE II. — Diurnal Variation Potential Gradient. Station. Karasjok. Sodankyla. Kew (19, 12). Greenwich. Florence. Perpignan. Lisbon. Tokyo. Batavia. Cape Horn(20). Period. 1903-41882-83. 18621864. 18981904. 1893-96. 1883-85. 1886-88. 1884-86. 1897-98. 1900-1. ...

THEODORE II. (1580-1605), tsar of Russia, was the son of Tsar Boris Godunov and one of the daughters of MalyutaSkuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, a ...

THEODOSIUS II. (401-450) succeeded his father Arcadius as emperor of the East in 408. During his minority the empire was ably ruled by the praetorian prefect Anthemius and Pulcheria, who became her brother's guardian in 414. Under his sister's care the young e ...

TIGLATH-PILESER II. or III., son of Hadad-nirari II., appears to have reigned from about 950 to 930 B.C., but nothing is known about him.

... hin different limits, are given in Behm and Wagner's Bevdlkerung der Erde, No. viii. (Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1801), p. 53: — Europe, within the narrowest physical limits (to the crest of the Urals and the Manych depression, and including the Sea of Azov, but e ...

the summit of the San Francisco Mountain* one may pan rapidly through all these down into the Painted Desert. The BorealCanadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran embrace the highlands. Coyotes are very common; wild cats and mountain lions are fairly plentiful. De

... a, Pocock (nov.) (fig. 43). — In primitive forms belonging to the family Nymphotiidae the full complement of appendages is retained — the 1st (mandibular), the 2nd (palpiform), and the jrd (ovigerous) pairs being well developed in both sexes. In certain deriva ...

... . Embroidery (in part). Elizabeth, Queen; Eiuser; Englefleld; English History (VII. and

... year, commended him to the care and favour of his brother and successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge. His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterwards beca ...

... ed on. Commerce is carried on in wine, brandy and building-stone. Angoule'me (Iciilisma) was taken by Clovis from the Visigoths in 507, and plundered by the Normans in the 9th century. In 1360 it was surrendered by the peace of Bretigny to the English; they we ...

... rtation of pineapples and other fruit. Angra served as a refuge for Queen Maria II. of Portugal from 1830 to 1833.

... frica, in 26° 38' S., 15° E., discovered by Bartholomew Diaz in 1487. F. A. E. Liideritz, of Bremen, established a trading station here in 1883, and his agent concluded treaties with the neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of country to the newcomers. ...

... Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II., last due de Montmorency, at Moulins. To Michel are due the sculptures of the triumphal arch at the Porte St Denis, begun in 1674, to serve as a memorial for the conquests of L ...

... f her estates for her son, to whom in 1389 the title was granted by King Robert II. He was taken prisoner at Homildon Hill and died in England. The 5th earl was his great-grandson. ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, 5th earl of Angus (c. MSO-C. 1514), the famous " Bell the Ca ...

... Saxony — and of five enclaves surrounded by Prussian territory, viz. Alsleben, Miihlingen,Dornburg,G6dnitz and Tilkerode-Abberode. The eastern and larger portion of the duchy is enclosed by the Prussian government district of Potsdam (in the Prussian jrovince ...

... l field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II. , prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born on the 3rd of July 1676 at Dessau. From his earliest youth he was devoted to the profession of arms, for which he educated himself physi ...

... the ligh-priest at Jerusalem," "the perfection of the art." His medals of Henry II. of France and Pope Paul III. are greatly valued.

ANILINE, PHENYLAMNE, or AIIINOBENZENE, (C«H»NHi), an organic base first obtained from the destructive distillation of ndigo in 1826 by O. Unverdorben (Pogg. Ann., 1826, 8, p. 397), who named it crystalline. In 1834, F. Runge (Pogg. Ann., 1834, 31, p. 65; 32, p ...

... 1 7 3 \ l-t C. 37' 37 -W 37 n 37H J878 ie-33 162? the maximum ranging from 10 A.II. to 6 P.M., the minimum from 1 1 P.M. to 3 A.M. Sutherland Simpson and J. J. Galbraith have recently done much work on this subject. In their first experiments they showed that ...

... ses a development from it due to (i.) the influence of other individual cults, (ii.) anthropomorphic tendencies, (iii.) the influence of chieftainship, hereditary and otherwise, (iv.) annual sacrifice of the sacred animal and mystical ideas connected therewith ...

ANIMISM (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 ...

... , and from its fruit spreading out like a star. The anise of the Bible (Matt, rxiii. 23) is A nethum or Peucedanum frovcotens, i.e. dill (?.».).

... a mountain about 8500 ft. above the sea. Ankober was made (c. 1800) by Menelek II. the place of detention of political prisoners. Pop. about 2000.

... s strength, and lifting him up from the earth crushed him to death (Apollodorus ii. 5; Hyginus, Fab. 31). The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favourite subject in ancient sculpture.

... iribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but Artaxerxes II. (Mnemon) disapproved and recalled his satrap. In 388 Antalcidas, then commander of the Spartan fleet, accompanied Tiribazus to the Persian court, and secured the active assista ...

... he spiny anteater (Echidna) is one of the monotremes (see MARSUPIAUA and MONOTREIIATA).

... the end of the Republic. See T. Ashby in Papers of the British School at Rome, iii. 14.

... of Troy, or settled at Cyrene, or became the founder of Patavium. Homer, Iliad, iii. 148. vii. 347: Horace. Epp. i. a. 9; Livy i. I ; Pindar, Pytkio, v. 83; Virgil. At*, i. 343.

... rches 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 subterran ...

... a treatise on burning-glasses. A fragment of this was published under the title II*pi TapaOo^uv urixajftifiarwy by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the fortysecond volume of the Hist, de FAcad. des Inicr. ; A. Westermann gave a revised edition of ...

ANTHEMION (from the Gr. iavOiiuov. a flower), the conventional design of flower or leaf forms which was largely employed by the Greeks to decorate (i) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, (3) the necking of the I ...

... legomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903); M. P. Nilsson, Stitdia de Dionysiis Atticis (1900) and Griechische Feste (1906); G. F. Schomann, Griechische Alterthumer, ii. (ed. I. H. Lipsius, 1902), p. 516; A. Momrasen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E. Rohde ...

... Minorum of Luke VV adding (Antwerp, 1623), and are also reproduced by Horoy, Medii aem bibliotheca patristica (1880, vi. pp. 555 et sqq.) ; see art. " Antonius von Padua " in Herzog-Hauck, Reafencyklopadie.