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URBAN III. (Uberto Crivelli), pope from the 25th of November 1185 to the 2oth of October 1187, was a Milanese, and had been made cardinal-priest of St Lorenzo in Damaso and archbishop of Milan by Lucius III., whom he succeeded. His family had suffered greatly ...

URBAN IV. (Jacques Pantaleon), pope from the 29th of August 1261 to the 2nd of October 1264, was the son of a shoemaker of Troyes. Having received a monastic education, he became archdeacon of Liege and papal legate of Innocent IV. to Poland and Prussia; he wa ...

III. Races of Mankind. — The classification of mankind into a number of permanent varieties or races, rests on grounds which are within limits not only obvious but definite. Whether from a popular or a scientific point of view, it would be admitted that a Negr ...

THEODOSIUS III., emperor of the East (716-717), was afinancial officer whom a Byzantine army rebelling against Anastasius III. unexpectedly proclaimed monarch in his stead. He captured Constantinople after a six months' siege and deposed Anastasius, but in the ...

TIRIDATES III., grandson of Phraates IV., lived as a hostage in Rome and was educated there. When the Parthians rebelled against Artabanus II. in A.D. 35 they applied for a king to Tiberius, who sent Tiridates. With the assistance of L. Vitellius Tiridates ent ...

URBAN (Urbanus), the name of eight popes. St URBAN, first pope of that name, was bishop of Rome from 222 to 230. He had been preceded by Calixtus, and was followed by Pontianus.

... rax as if it were the only cattle disease worthy of mention (see Virgil, Georg. iii.). It figures largely in the history of the early and middle ages as a devastating pestilence attacking animals, and through them mankind; the oldest AngloSaxon manuscripts con ...

... ction of his nationality, was steadily trained, through centuries, to become an urban European, with all the parasitic activities of urban economics, and all the democratic tendencies of occidental industrialism. Excluded from the army, the land, the trade cor ...

... uare mile. '55 ANTWERP (Fr. Anvrri). capital of the above province, an ini|Mirt.iii( city on the right bank of the Scheldt, Belgium's « liii-i centre of commerce and a strong fortified position. Modern Antwerp is a finely laid out city with a succession of bro ...

... s. According to Sir H^ C. Rawlinson (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc., March 1867) the disturbances which produced the present lake took place in the course of the middle ages; while Sir Roderick Murchison contended (Journ. of Roy. Geog. Soc., 1867, p. cxliv. &c.) that t ...

... he extensive transfers of property on the seizure of the church lands by Henry VIII., much timber was sold by the new owners, and the quantity thus thrown into the market so lowered its price, as Hollingshed informs us, that the builders of cottages, who had f ...

... ars since, in 1143, the Romans had rejected the temporal power of the pope. The urban nobles had set up a republic, which, under forms ostensibly modelled on antiquity (e.g. patriciate, senatus populusque romanus, &c.), concealed but clumsily a purely oligarch ...

... \ i"iir with -.ilvrr nitrate solution, anenate* giving a reddi»h-bri)» n pmipit.iii-. whilst phosphates give a yellow precipitate. There are three known compounds of arsenic and sulphur, namely, realgar As»S. orpiment A»,Si, and arsenic pcntasulphidc As,Si, Re ...

... Faith, to borrow their own language, was banished to Virgo, and rarely shed her iiitlm-mr mi men. Cardan (1501-1576), for instance, hated Luther, and so changed his birthday in order to give him an unfavourable horoscope. In Cardan's times, as in those of \uRu ...

... onception of pert urt>ut ion* of *uch generality and elegance that it forms the iiiiiiinun lm«r of all thowr method* of determining these deviation* which have high tririitiric intm-i. Thit conception it embodied in the method of " variation of clement*." orig ...

... a market-town of Co. Westmeath, Ireland, on both banks of the Shannon. Pop. of urban district (1901) 661 7. The urban district, under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1900, is wholly in county Westmeath, but the same area is divided by the Shannon between t ...

... a pure form of civility to churchmen of modest rank. On the loth of June 1630, Urban VIII. confined the use of the titles Emintntuif and Eminentisfimi to the cardinals, to imperial electors, and to the master of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (order of ...

... s outbreak of patriotic enthusiasm, the school was soon after closed by Louis XVIII., and the young student was compelled to seek some other career instead of that of the soldier. He first engaged himself to a country wine merchant, for whom he travelled in Ge ...

... tem; crescit scribendo scribendi studium). Shortly after Froben's death the disturbances at Basel} occasioned by the zealots for the religious revolution which was in progress throughout Switzerland, began to make Erasmus desirous of changing his residence. He ...

... s, opposite Windsor, within which parliamentary borough it is situated. Pop. of urban district (1901) 3301. It is famous for its college, the largest of the ancient Engtish public schools. The " King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor " was founded b ...

... he fourth gospel, which sets the Last Supper before the feast of the Passover (xiii. i), and pointedly omits Christ's institution of the Eucharist, substituting for it the washing of his disciples' feet. The blessing of the Bread and Cup, as an incident in a f ...

... 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 ...

... on among the educated than the illiterate classes. It is also more prevalent in urban than in rural districts. A curious feature in large towns is the sudden outbreak of self-destruction which sometimes occurs, and which has led to its being described as epide ...

... eview (February 1892) that such an application might be 1 Nuovo cimento, series iii. vol. xvii. 2 Comptes rendus, vols. cxi., cxii.; see also The Electrician, xl. 87, 91, 1 66, 235, 333 and 397; xli. 487; xlii. 46 and 527; and xliii. 277. » Report Brit. Assoc. ...

... 1 See his Scientific Papers, p. 47. 3 See Silliman's Jour., xxxii. 396, and xxxiii. 1 1 8. 4 Marrian, Phil. Mag., 3rd ser., vol. xxy. p. 382; Beatson, Arch, de I'Elect., v. 197; De la Rive, Treatise on Electricity, i. 306, also Phil. Mag., 3rd ser., vol. xxxv ...

... the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, respectively, both on the Sachs system (see PI. III.). A small general plan and section of the Covent Garden stage are also shown (see fig. 6), and another illustration (see PL IV.) presents the " gridiron " at Covent Garden on ...

... Christianity. (2) I Corinthians shows us a Christian community filled with disturbances, and apparently without recognized officials. The democratic, or rather theocratic, rights of the spiritual man were for a time relied on to extemporize so much Church gov ...

TOTTENHAM, an urban district in the Tottenham parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, forming a north suburb of London, 65 m. north of London Bridge, adjoining Edmonton on the south. Top. (1901), 102,541. Its full name, not now in use, was Tottenham High ...

... ed to the existing topography with which we are here concerned. Each of the disturbances altered the attitude of the mass with respect to the general base-level of the ocean surface; each movement therefore introduced a new cycle of erosion, which was interrup ...

... and 1908 are from Mineral Resources of the United States for 1908. discussion, urban establishments (i.e. those in the two municipalities—Salt Lake City and Ogden— having a population in 1900 of at least 8000), increased in number from 205 to 256 or 24-9%, an ...

FIG. 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.

... 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 ...

... arden of the east marches, but the next year he joined the league against James III. and his favourite Robert Cochranc at Lauder, where he earned his nickname by offering to bell the cat, i.e. to deal with the latter, beginning the attack upon him by pulling h ...

... -Dessau. Ernest I. of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1516) left three sons, John II., George III., and Joachim, who ruled their lands together for many yean, and who, like Prince Wolfgang, favoured the reformed doctrines, which thus became dominant in Anhalt. About 1546 th ...

... ," "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 ...

... ectures, Lancet, London, 1897; Pembrey and Nicol, Journal of Physiology, vol. xxiii., 1898-1899; H. M. Vernon, "Heat Rigor," Journal of Physiology, xxiy., 1899; H. M. Vernon, "Death Temperatures,' Journal of Physiology, xxv., 1899; F. C. Eve, " Temperature on ...

... 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, (v.) syncretism, due either to u ...

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 (?.».).