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TORRE DEL GRECO, a seaport of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples, 7! m. S.E. of that city by rail. Pop. (1901), 35,328. It lies at the south-west foot of Vesuvius, on the shore of the Bay of Naples. It is built chiefly of lava, and stands on the lava s ...

... r theory gives us Sarmatian Heneti, from the Baltic provinces; while the most widely accepted view was that they reached Italy from Paphlagonia. Modern scholarship has rejected these theories. Pauli and Kretschmer, proceeding on the basis of language, have rea ...

... roups of Zoantharia in which the mesenterial arrangement of the adult differs widely from that just described. But it is possible to refer all these cases with more or lew certainty to the Edwardsian type. The order ZOANTHIDEA comprises a number of soft-bodied ...

... wn contains also a Byzantine castle, built on the lofty site of the ancient citadel; a palace belonging to the Greek metropolitan; a number of mosques, synagogues and churches, the most remarkable being the church of the Virgin of Consolation, founded in 819. ...

... recalls Calderon's Medico de su honra) , was published at Bordeaux in 1642; La Torre de Babilonia, containing the two parts of Fernan Mendez Pinto, appeared at Rouen in 1647; and in the preface to his poem, El Samson Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enriquez Gomez giv ...

... 237. In 1238 he was married, in defiance of the wishes of Pope Gregory IX., to Adelasia, widow of Ubaldo Visconti and heiress of Torres and Gallura in Sardinia. Enzio took at once the title of king of Torres and Gallura, and in 1243 that of king of Sardinia, b ...

... has been generally accepted as a distinct period, but " Paleocene " is not so widely used. In north-western Europe the close of the Cretaceous period was marked by an extensive emergence of the land, accompanied, in many places, by considerable erosion of the ...

... r three years, prevailed on them to enter monasteries. Peter went to Sion, near Delft; Erasmus after prolonged reluctance became an Augustinian canon in St Gregory's at Steyn, a house of the same Chapter near Gouda. There he found little religion and less refi ...

... walior state. This outlying tract embraces a series of rocky glens and mountain torrents, crowned by the ruins of native strongholds, and interspersed with narrow ledges of cultivable alluvium. The climate, once hot and sultry, has now become comparatively moi ...

... The height cannot have been very different in ancient times, for the so-called Torre del Filosofo, which is only 1188 ft. below the present summit, is a building of Roman date. The shape is that of a truncated cone, interrupted on the west by the Valle del Bo ...

... , of Don Silva, and of Cavallo, the pith ball telegraph of Francis Ronalds (a model of which is in the collection of telegraph apparatus in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and several others. Next came the discovery of Galvani and of Volta, and as a consequen ...

TORRES VEDRAS, a town of Portugal, in the district of Lisbon, 43 m. N. by W. of Lisbon, on the Lisbon-Figueira da Foz railway. Pop. (1900), 6900. Torres Vedras is built on the left bank of the river Sizandro; it has a Moorish citadel and hot sulphur baths. Rom ...

... the old Turkish army; already the re-creation of the service on the accepted model* of western Europe had been commenced. This was still incomplete when the new force was called upon to meet the Russians in 1828, and though the army displayed its accustomed b ...

... r chief employments is the education of children. Instruction is consequently widely diffused, and few persons, it is said, can be found in the province who are unable to read. The qualifications for entering into the priestly order are good conduct and a fair ...

... rpodinus ckylorrkita. This species and other varieties of carpodinus are very widely distributed. Landolphias are also found. The coffee, cotton and Guinea pepper plants are indigenous, and the tobacco plant flourishes in several districts. Among the trees are ...

... ur le due d' Angoulttne (1620); (3) a translation of a Spanish work by Diego de Torre*. To him has also been ascribed the work, La tentroJe etfidete RUation de lout ce gut s'eil passi en I'isle de Ri, envoyfe par U roi a la royne sa mire (Paris, 1627).

... promontory of Mt. Brazil; but it is inferior to the neighbouring ports of Ponta Delgada and Horta. The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit. Angra served as a refuge for Queen Maria II. of Portugal f ...

... (1814-1874), Swedish physicist, was born on the i3th of August 1814 at Logdo, Medelpad, Sweden. He was educated at Upsala University, where in 1839 he became privat docent in physics. In 1842 he went to Stockholm Observatory in order to gain experience in prac ...

... au; while a synod of 39 members, elected for six years, assembles at periods to deliberate on internal matters touching the organization of the church. The Roman Catholics are under the bishop of Paderbom. There are within the duchy four grammar schools (gymna ...

... consciousness may be lost, and the patient falls into a comatose condition, or delirium and convulsions may set in. All these changes can be watched in any patient suffering from an acute fever. The lower limit of temperature that man can endure depends on ma ...

... to undergo unnecessary suffering. (Sec Serpent, below.) (v.) One of the most widely found modes of showing respect to animals is known as totemism (see TOTEM AND TOTEMISM), but except in decadent forms there is but little positive worship; in Central Australi ...

... tomatist are sometimes discovered by means of cryslal-gazing (q.v.), which is widely found among savages, as among civilized peoples. Sickness is oflen explained as due lo ihe absence of Ihe soul; and means are sometimes taken lo lure back ihe wandering soul; ...

... the west end of the chapel, constituting a western transept or narthex. This model, based on Merton College chapel (i3th century), of which only chancel and transept were built though a nave was projected, was followed at Wadham, New and Magdalen Colleges, Ox ...

... — As affecting wild as well as domesticated animals and man, anthrax has been widely diffused in one or more of its forms, over the surface of the globe. It at times decimates the reindeer herds in Lapland and the Polar regions, and is only too well known in t ...

... re of his spine; in the perfection of the muscular movements of the arm; in the delicacy of hand; in the smallness of the canine teeth and other dental peculiarities; in the development of a chin; and in the small size of his jaws compared to the relatively gr ...

... nographical histories of the Jews and the nations of Europe have proceeded on widely diverging lines, but these lines have more than once crossed each other and become interlaced. Thus Aryan elements are at the beginning of both; European morals have been iner ...

... ose an administrative career. Created secular prelate, he was sent as apostolic delegate to Viterbo, where he early manifested his reactionary tendencies in an attempt to stamp out Liberalism. Recalled to Rome in 1841, he entered the office of the papal secret ...

... here, consequently, some of the finest coast scenery in the island is found, widely differing, with its unbroken lines of cliffs, from the indented coast-line of the west. The most remarkable cliffs are those formed of perpendicular basaltic columns, extendin ...

... first Georgian Gospels (Tiflis, 1709). A man of great oratorical power, Anthim delivered a series of sermons (Didahii), and some of his pastoral letters are models of style and of language as well as of exact and beautiful printing. He also completed a whole ...

... 7 was suggested as a fit subject for examination by the Star Chamber, but his fidelity to tie government was strictly maintained to the last. In 1631 he was busy repairing Protestant churches, and in 1634 he attended the Irish parliament. He made an important ...

... been variously explained, is derived from the O.H.Germ. trost, comfort, aid, fidelity, trust, through the latinized form trustis. Our information about the antrustions is derived from one of the formulae of Marculfus (i. 18, ed. Zeumer, p. 55) and from variou ...

... Nothing, however, remains of the former enceinte or even of the famous old citadel defended by General Chassi in 1832, except the Steen, which has been restored and contains a museum of arms and antiquities. After the establishment of Belgian independence Ant ...

... gruber also published a novel of considerable merit, Der Schandfieck (1876; remodelled 1884); and various short stories and tales of village life collected under the title Wolken und Sunn'schein (1888). Anzengruber's collected works, with a biography, were pub ...

APATITE, a widely distributed mineral, which, when found in large masses, is of considerable economic value as a phosphate. As a mineral species it was first recognized by A. G. Werner in 1786 and named by him from the Greek &raray, to deceive, because it had ...

... s of the German folk-tale by H. Steinhowel (Augsburg, 1471), the Dutch version (Delft, 1493), the French in Le Violier des histoires romaines (Paris, 1521), the English, by Laurence Twine (London, 1576, new ed. 1607), also of the Scandinavian, Czech, and' Hung ...

... emons/ratio Evangelica) — is not uninfluenced by Pascal (Traitt de la faiblesse del' esprit hutnaine). As we might expect, Protestant lands are more busily occupied with apologetics. Intolerant reliance upon force presents greater difficulties to them; soon it ...

... all cases of apoplexy from organic brain disease. It is the sudden shock to the delicate mechanism that produces the unconsciousness; but seeing that the coma is usually deeper and more prolonged in cerebral haemorrhage than when occasioned by vascular occlusi ...

... . ii. 7 ff.), in virtue of his distinctive Gospel. This point of view was not widely shared even in circles appreciative of his actual work. To most he seemed but a fruitful worker within lines determined by " the twelve apostles of the Lamb " as a body (Rev. ...

... n " open letter " of an essentially literary type. Further, its opening seems modelled on the lines of the preface to Luke's Gospel, to which, along with Acts, it may owe something of its very conception as a reasoned appeal to the lover of truth. But while li ...

... es of single apostles, some parts of them being our Saviour's own original laws delivered to the apostles, and the other parts the public acts of the apostles " (Historical preface to Primitive Christianity Revived, pp. 85-86). Others, however, realized their ...