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THANKSGIVING DAY, in the United States, the fourth Thursday in November, annually set apart for thanksgiving by proclamation of the president and of the governors of the various states. The day is observed with religious services in the churches, and, especial ...

ARBOR DAY, the name applied in the United States of America to a day appointed for the public planting of trees (see ARBOUR). Originating, or at least being first successfully put into operation, in Nebraska in 1872 through the instrumentality of J. Sterling M ...

... nd Leto, twin-sister and counterpart of Apollo. She is said to have been born a day before him (on the 6th of the month) and tradition assigns them different birthplaces— Dele* to Apollo, Ortygia to Artemis. But Ortygia (" home of quails ") applies still to De ...

EUCHARIST (Gr. evxapurria, thanksgiving), in the Christian Church, one of the ancient names of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion. The term evxapurria was at first applied to the act of thanksgiving associated with the sacrament ; later, so e ...

... henian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion (about the 24th and 25th of May). The name, which was derived by the ancients from Okptiv T^V yfjv (" to reap the land "), is more pro ...

... mall huts of the simplest constuction, used chiefly as sleeping apartments; 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, Kab ...

ANGOUMOIS, an old province 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).

... this last field his words were, " O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days. Or if Thou wilt not help me, do not help these scoundrels, but leave us to try it ourselves." With this great victory Leopold's career ended. He retired from active service, ...

... nt can maintain their temperature fairly constant. In strong, healthy infants a day or two old the temperature rises slightly, but in that of weakly, ill-developed children it either remains stationary or falls. The cause of the variable temperature in infants ...

... rewarded, and the bull underwent four months' education at Nilopolis. Its birthday was celebrated once a year; oxen, which had to be pure white, were sacrificed to it; women were forbidden to approach it when once its education was finished. Oracles were obta ...

... was no invenlion of Ihe poet's bul a piece of traditionary lore; at the present day among the Bosutos it is held thai a man walking by Ihe brink of a river may lose his life if his shadow falls on Ihe waler, for a crocodile may seize it and draw him in; in Tas ...

... e of the four Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus, held annually for three days ( 1 1 th-i 3th) in the month of Anthesterion (February-March). The object of the festival was to celebrate the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, and the beg ...

... forming " coral " (?.».). Although corals have been familiar objects since the days of antiquity, and the variety known as the precious red coral has been for a long time an article of commerce in the Mediterranean, it wasonly in the iSth century that their t ...

... etween 270° and 400° C. This high boiling fraction is allowed to stand for some days, when it partially solidifies. It is then separated in a centrifugal machine, the low melting-point impurities are removed by means of hot water, and the residue is finally ho ...

... arbuncles before general infection takes place, death may not occur for several days. The carbuncles may appear in any part of the body, being preceded or accompanied by fever. They are developed in the subcutaneous connective tissue where this is loose and pl ...

... -69). Thus the " Semitic domination," as it was afterwards called, became every day more strongly accentuated. If it was a long time in exciting resentment and jealousy, the reason was that it was in no sense alien to the new conditions of the national life. T ...

... t might not develop. But for various reasons this was an inexact method, and to-day an antiseptic is judged by its effects on pure cultures of definite pathogenic microbes, and on their vegetative and spore forms. Their standardization has been effected in man ...

... triple form in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were composed, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As Milton says, " strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music then used with the chorus that sang."

... us was obliged to lead an army into Etruria, but handed over the command on the day of battle to Marcus Petreius, on the ground of ill-health. He then went to Macedonia, where he made himself so detested by his oppression and extortions that he left the provin ...

... bably illegitimate. The earldom has continued in the family down to the present day, the nth earl (b. 1851) succeeding in 1869. See also An Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim, by G. Hill (1873). ANTRIM, RANDAL MACDONNELL, IST MARQUESS OF (16091683 ...

... describes the activity of the port, into which 500 ships sometimes passed in a day, and as evidence of the extent of its land trade he mentioned that 2000 carts entered the city each week. Venice had fallen from its first place in European commerce, but still ...

... ce of Eridu remained a fixed tradition in the minds of the people to the latest days, and analogy therefore justifies the conclusion that Anu was likewise worshipped in a centre which had acquired great prominence. The summingup of divine powers manifested in ...

... asure, respectively to the fiercer and milder aspects of the dog-tribe. In late days the Greeks report that ttim (dogs) were the sacred animals of Anubis while those of Ophois were Xuox (wolves). The above figure 3=^ is coloured black as befits a funerary and ...

... t took place in the month of Pyanepsion (October to November), and lasted three days, on which occasion the various phratries (i.e. dans) of Attica met to discuss their affairs. The name is a slightly modified form of dTaTOpto = a/iajraropta, 6/uotraTOpta, the ...

... o. What these were it is impossible to say: perspective cannot have been in his day at an advanced stage. Among his works were an Odysseus, a priest in prayer, and an Ajax struck by lightning. APOLLODORUS, an Athenian grammarian, pupil of Aristarchus and Panae ...

... e, if bitterer still), Lactantius Firmianus, &c., &C.1 As Christianity wins the day, a new objection is raised to it. The age is full of troubles; Christianity is ruining the empire! Besides notices elsewhere, we find the charge specially dealt with by St Augu ...

... uro^ty no.) , a short and pointed utterance. The usual spelling up to Johnson's day was apothegm, which Webster and Worcester still prefer; it indicates the pronunciation— i.e. " apothem " — better than the other, which, however, is more usual in England and f ...

... al envoy of Jesus Christ. How far it had any similar use in Judaism in Christ's day is uncertain; but in the 4th century A.D., at any rate, it denoted responsible envoys from the central Jewish authority, especially for the collection of religious funds. In it ...

... f thirteen was sold at Christie's in 1004 for £4000. See William Hone. The Everyday Book and Table Book (1831); and W. J. Cripps, Old English Plate (9th ed., 1906).

... re their incorporation with the Epistles of Clement in the New Testament of his day. The Codes Alexandrinus does indeed append the Clementine Epistles to its text of the New Testament. The Canons may be a little later in date than the preceding Constitutions, ...

... iven from at least the beginning of the 4th century to church writers of former days, as being the parents of Christian belief and thought for later times, the expression " Apostolic Fathers" dates only from the latter part of the I7th century. The idea of rec ...

... tendency to fortify that which has been written with great names, especially in days when there is no very clear notion of literary property. This is done, not always with any deliberate consciousness of fraud (although it must be clearly recognized that truth ...

... reased, and Pope Nicholas IV. published anew the bull of Honorius IV. From that day the Apostles, regarded as rebels, were persecuted pitilessly. Four were burned in 1294, and Segarelli, as a relapsed heretic, went to the stake at Parma in 1300. They had had c ...

... edical curriculum, and this provision has been so expanded that, at the present day, all medical students in the United Kingdom are compelled to pass a preliminary examination in arts, unless they hold a university degree. An act of parliament, passed in 1838, ...

... that of Augustus on a magnificent cameo in the Louvre. In China at the present day many Taoist gods are (or are given out as) men deified for service to the state. This again may be statecraft. In India, the (still unexplained) rise of the doctrine of transmi ...

... pium probably in 90 B.C. The customs boundary of Italy was close by in Cicero's day. It was plundered by the lapydes under Augustus, but, in the period of peace which followed, was able to develop its resources. Augustus visited it during the Pannonian wars in ...

... mour, the champion of the university, and one of the most celebrated men of the day. In 1257, along with his friend Bonaventura, he was created doctor of theology, and began to give courses of lectures upon this subject in Paris, and also in Rome and other tow ...

... or it by land under conduct of a Mahommedan priest, and reached it on Christmas day. After six months' stay in Algiers he once again, on the 2ist of June 1809, set sail for Marseilles, where he had to undergo a monotonous and inhospitable quarantine in the laz ...

... eev that Paul entrusted the reorganization of the army, which during the latter days of Catherine had fallen into a state of disorder and demoralization. Arakcheev remorselessly applied the iron Gatchina discipline to the whole of the imperial forces, beginnin ...

... was found guilty, and condemned to be executed on the 6th of August 1759, three days after his trial. While in his cell he confessed his guilt, and threw some light on the motives for his crime, by asserting that he had discovered a criminal intimacy between C ...