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Tolstoy, Leo
TOLSTOY, LEO (1828-1910), Russian novelist and social reformer, was born on the 9th of September (August 28) 1828, in the home of his fathers — Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula — a large country house (not the present one) built in a severely formal style, with Dor ...
Vol. 26, pp. 1053-1060 · ocr-imported-page-alignedAristotle
... ed writing it in 346, in 336, and so on till he died. Similarly, he began the Mrleorologica as early as 356 and was still writing it in 341. Both books were commenced some years before Plato's death: both were works of many years: both were destined to form pa ...
Vol. 2, pp. 501-521 · ocr-imported-page-alignedAstrology
... houlders and arms to the Gemini (or twins), the breast to Cancer, the flanks to Leo, the bladder to Virgo, the buttocks to the Balance, the pubis to the Scorpion, the thighs to Sagittarius, the knees to Capricorn, and the limbs to Aquarius. Not content with th ...
Vol. 2, pp. 795-799 · ocr-imported-page-alignedAstronomy
... of the planetary orbit precisely as the pole of the earth does aruu m I thr |*>leof the ecliptic, the inclination ol the two orbits remaining unchanged. If a planet rotates on its axis so rapidly as to have a considerable elliptiaty, and if it has satellites ...
Vol. 2, pp. 800-818 · ocr-imported-page-alignedElectricity
... o apply this knowledge to transmission of power, and S. D. Field, T. A. Edison, Leo Daft, E. M. Bentley and W. H. Knight, F. J. Sprague, C. J. Van Depoele and others between 1880 and 1884 were the pioneers of electric traction. One of the earliest electric tra ...
Vol. 9, pp. 179-192 · ocr-imported-page-alignedEnergy
... his residence at Ettenheim in Baden, near the Rhine. Early in the year 1804 Napoleon, then First Consul of France, heard news which seemed to connect the young duke with the CadoudalPichegru conspiracy then being tracked by the French police. The news ran that ...
Vol. 9, pp. 398-405 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheatre
... the biartyia. (" second story "), and at the top a narrow platform called the fleoXofetoc, upon which gods supposed to be stationary in heaven could appear. Ghosts ascending from the underworld mounted the \a.p<JivuH. /<Xijua«s, whose position is uncertain. T ...
Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheology
... oses par excellence, and of Greek philosophers. I is possible that the epithet fleoXo-yos for St John may go bac as far as Papias. This is the first appearance of the term upo: Christian ground. The primitive application of BeoMyoi V the poets and myth-fancier ...
Vol. 26, pp. 772-785 · ocr-imported-page-alignedUnited States
... s with their metropolises was practically cut off by the British during the Napoleonic wars, the dependence of these colonies upon the American carrying trade became absolute. It was the profits of this neutral trade, notwithstanding the losses to which it was ...
Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 · ocr-imported-page-alignedVaccination
... or Hugo, with whom he was connected by the marriage of his brother Charles with Leopoldine Hugo. His earlier romantic productions include a volume of poems, L'Enfer de I' esprit (1840); a translation of the Antigone (1844) in collaboration with Paul Meurice; a ...
Vol. 27, pp. 831-833 · ocr-imported-page-alignedVenice
... Dandolo after the fall of Constantinople in 1204; they were carried off by Napoleon to Paris in 1797, and restored by Francis of Austria in 1815. Mosaic is the essential decoration of the church, and the architectural details are subordinated to the colour sc ...
Vol. 27, pp. 995-1006 · ocr-imported-page-aligned