Search the scanned history of knowledge.

VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD, in the grand duchy of Finland, capital of the province of Vasa, on the east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, 327 m. by rail north-west of Helsingfors. Pop. (1904) 18,028. It has two classical lyceums for boys and three for girls, a school of ...

ASA, in the Bible, son (or, perhaps, rather brother) of Abijah. the son of Rehoboam and king of Judah (i Kings xv. 9-24). Of his long reign, during which he was a contemporary of Baasha, Zimri and Omri of Israel, little is recorded with the exception of some r

VASSAL (Fr. vassal, vassaut, vassault, &c.), the tenant and follower of a feudal lord (see FEUDALISM). The etymology of the word has been a matter of considerable dispute. The late Henri de Tourville, in his Histoire de la formation particulariste, maintained

... he muscles, effusion of citron or rust-coloured fluid in various cavities, extravasations of blood and local congestions throughout the body, the blood in the vessel* generally being very dark and tar-like. The most notable feature, however, in the majority of ...

... lpae; and several flourishing towns, such as Preveza, Arta (anc. Ambracia), Karavasara or Karbasaras, and Vonitza. The river ARTA (anc. Arachthus or Aratthus, in Livy xxxviii. 3, Aretha) is the chief river of Epirus, and is said to have been navigable in ancie ...

... Rufus, which stood behind the impluvium. These side tables were known as mensae vasariae and were used for the display of vases, lamps, &c. Sometimes they were supported on four legs, the example at Pompeii (of which the museums at Naples and Rome contain many ...