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SUN-BITTERN, the Eurypyga helias of ornithology, a bird that has long exercised systematists; and one whose proper place can scarcely yet be said to have been determined to everybody's satisfaction. According to Pallas, who in 1781 gave (N. nordl. Beytrage,\o\ ...

SUN-BIRD, a name more or less in use for many years,1 and now generally accepted as that of a group of over 100 species of small birds, but when or by whom it was first applied is uncertain. Those known to the older naturalists were for a long while referred t ...

SUN COPYING, or PHOTO COPYING, the name given to that branch of photographic contact printing which is carried out without the aid of a camera-made negative. It is now used very extensively for copying documents, especially the plans of architects and engineer ...

... German yeoman stock. In 1 787 the family removed into the neighbourhood of Stralsund, where Arndt was enabled to attend the academy. After an interval of private study he went in 1791 to the university of Greifswald as a student of theology and history, and in ...

... ple. On Assyrian monuments the contrast between asu, " (the land of) the rising sun," and ereb or irib, " (the land of) darkness " or " the setting sun," is frequent, and these names were probably passed on by the Phoenicians to the Greeks, and gave rise to th ...

... is length Eusebius himself was unwilling to go, and so, convinced that he had misunderstood Arius, and that the teaching of the latter was imperilling the historic belief in the divinity of Christ, he gave his support to the opposition, and voted for the Nicen ...

... sha, the military commandant, intimating that the bombardment would commence at sunrise on the following morning unless " the batteries on the isthmus of Ras-el-Tin and the southern shore of the harbour of Alexandria " were previously surrendered " for the pur ...

... ments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves. Chief Towns. — The chief towns are Sao Paulo de Loanda, the capital, Kabinda, Benguella and Mossamedes (q.v.). Lobito, a little north of Beng ...

... spectrum. He announced the existence of hydrogen, among other elements, in the sun's atmosphere in 1862, and in 1868 published his great map of the normal solar spectrum which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements ...

... d Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603. The country now known as Anhalt consists of two larger portions — Eastern and Western Anhalt, separated by the interposition of a part of Prussian Saxony — ...

... battle on the island of Riigen (November 16) . His conduct of the siege of Stralsund which followed was equally skilful,and the great results of the war to Prussia were largely to be attributed to his leadership in the campaign. In the years of peace,and espec ...

... one of the dances. The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun; and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a serpent-god. The tribes of Peru are said to have adored great snakes in the pre-Inca days; and in Chile the Araucanians made a serpent f ...

... has no meaning for the savage. The river speeding on its course to the sea, the sun and moon, if not the stars also, on their never-ceasing daily round, the lightning, fire, the wind, the sea, all are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not st ...

... est of St Filippo Neri he composed a number of Laudi, or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, which have given him an accidental prominence in musical history, since their performance in St Filippo's Oratory eventually gave rite (on the disruption of ...

... ts mouth in the Kleines HafT, and 53 m. N.W. of Stettin, by the railway to Stralsund. Pop. (1900) 14,602. The fortifications of Anklam were dismantled in 1762 and have not since been restored, although the old walls are still standing; formerly, however, it wa ...

ANTHELION (late 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 outward ...

... mily 6. POCILLOPORIDAE. — Colonial branching aporose corals, with small calices sunk in the coenenchyme. Tabulae present, and two larger septa, an axial and abaxial, are always present, with traces of ten smaller septa. Typical genera — Pocillopora, Lamarck. S ...

... ,H, (NO,),-OH, which crystallizes in needles, melting at 138° C. On exposure to sunlight a solution of anthracene in benzene or xylrne deposits para-anthracene (CuHio)i, which melts at 244° C. and passes back into the ordinary form. Chlorine and bromine form b ...

ANTISTROPHE, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west. It is of the nature of a reply, and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in Gray's od ...

... an alliance with the pirates, but was totally defeated, most of his ships being sunk. Diodorus Siculus (xl. i) states that he only saved himself by a disgraceful treaty. He died soon afterwards (72-71) in Crete. All authorities are agreed as to his avarice and ...

... 1855). '53 the highest points arc Knocklayd (1605 ft.), Slieveanorra (1676), TrosUn (1817), Slcmish (1457), and Divis (1367). The inland slope is gradual, but on the northern shore the range terminates in abrupt and almost perpendicular declivities, and here, ...

... as his different system. The principal authorities are: — Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichle, 3rd ed. vol. ii. pp. 335 et seq.; Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichle, vol. ii. p. 97 et seq. ; Fustel de Coulanges, La Monarchic franque, p. 80 et seq. ; Maxime De ...

... rp had reached the lowest point of its fortunes in 1800, and its population had sunk under 40,000, when Napoleon, realizing its strategical importance, assigned two millions for the construction of two docks and a mole. One other incident in the chequered hist ...

... nsidered to be son of Osiris by Nephthys; earlier perhaps he was son of Re, the sun-god. In the and century A. D. his aid was " compelled " by the magicians and necromancers to fetch the gods and entertain them with food (especially in the ceremony of gazing i ...

... us short stories and tales of village life collected under the title Wolken und Sunn'schein (1888). Anzengruber's collected works, with a biography, were published in 10 vols. in 1890 (3rd ed. 1897) ; his correspondence has been edited by A. Bettelheim (1902). ...

... preface to a small work of J. W. Camerer, entitled Apollonii Pergaei quae super sunt, ac maxime Lemmata Pap pi in has Libras, cum Observationibus, ffc. (Gothae, 1795, 8vo). 5th. De Inclinationibus had for its object to insert a straight line of a given length, ...

... soning, of status epilepticus, of uraemia or of head injury. The sudden coma of sunstroke and heat-stroke might be included, although owing to the suddenness with which a person may be struck down, the term heal apoplexy is frequently used, and, from an etymol ...

... d (Ap. Fathers, n. i. 266 n.) on the ground that Pseudo-Ignatius occasionally misunderstands the Constitutions, that the two writings give the Roman succession differently, and that Pseudo-Clement shows no knowledge of the Christological controversies of Nicae ...

... nting part of a stream of water, probably in allusion to the fact that when the sun is in this part of the heavens (January, February) the weather is rainy. It is also a constellation mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.); Ptole ...

... y settled in towns and villages and by religion Shi'ites, the latter nomads and Sunnites. The staples of food are dates and fish in the south, elsewhere the produce of the herds and flocks and rice, wheat and barley. Other products are maize, cotton, silk and ...

... pine and beech forests in the highlands, and many beautiful oases in the deeply sunk valleys, and along the rivers, especially beside the Ebro, which is, therefore, often called the " Nile of Aragon." In such oases the flora is exceedingly rich. Wheat, maize, ...

... r, which he represented till 1766, when he was created an English peer as Baron Sundridge, the title by which till 1892 the dukes of Argyll sat in the House of Lords. The 5th duke was an active landlord, and was the first president of the Highland and Agricult ...

... eing the most westerly headland of Scotland; Morven or Morvern, bounded by Loch Sunart, the Sound of Mull and Loch Linnhe; Appin, on Loch Linnhe, with piers at Ballachulish and Port Appin; Benderloch, lying between Loch Creran and Loch Etive; Lome, surrounding ...

... . In other words, a song in a modern opera tends to be something which would be sung even if the drama had to be performed as a play without music; whereas a classical aria would in non-musical drama be a soliloquy . This can be shown by works at such opposite ...

... nt, this earth, this water, this air, this fire; in the heavens that moon, that sun, those stars; above all, God. On the other hand, a universal species or genus of substances is a predicate which, as well as everything else in all the other categories, always ...

... uinoctial, the second a solstitial armilla. Shadows were used as indices of the sun's position, in combination with angular divisions. When several rings or circles were combined representing the great circles of the heavens, the instrument became an armillary ...

... three volumes (complete) at Buffalo, 1853. A life was written by Caspar Brandt, sun of Gerard Brandt, the historian of the Dutch reformation, and published in 1724: republishcd and annotated by I. L. Mosheim in 1725; and translated into English by the Rev. Joh ...

... n leant to Arnauld's side. When Malebranche complained that his adversary had misunderstood him, Boileau silenced him with the question: " My dear sir, whom do you expect to understand you, if M. Arnauld does not?" And popular regard for Arnauld's penetration ...

... rejection of the swallowed fluid. There is profound collapse, the features are sunken, the skin moist and cyanosed. The pulse is feeble and irregular, and respiration is difficult. The pain in the stomach is persistent, and cramps in the calves of the legs ad ...

... finition, the conception of Art, and the use of the word for it, have undergone sundry variations. These variations correspond to certain vicissitudes or developments in the order of historical facts and in society. The requirements of society, stimulating the ...