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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" - Volume 5, Slice 6CELTES, KONRAD (1459-1508), German humanist and Latin poet, the son of a vintner named Pickel (of which Celtes is the Greek translation), was born at Wipfeld near Schweinfurt. He early ran away...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cat" to "Celt"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cat" to "Celt" - Volume 5, Slice 5CAT,1 properly the name of the well-known domesticated feline animal usually termed by naturalists Felis domestica, but in a wider sense employed to denote all the more typical members of the family Felidae....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" - Volume 5, Slice 4CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837-), American captain of industry and benefactor, was born in humble circumstances in Dunfermline, Scotland, on the 25th of November 1837. In 1848 his father, who had been a...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Capefigue" to "Carneades"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Capefigue" to "Carneades" - Volume 5, Slice 3CAPEFIGUE, JEAN-BAPTISTE HONOR RAYMOND (1801-1872), French historian and biographer, was born at Marseilles in 1801. At the age of twenty he went to Paris to study law; but he soon deserted law for...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Camorra" to "Cape Colony"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" - Volume 5, Slice 2CAMORRA, a secret society of Naples associated with robbery, blackmail and murder. The origin of the name is doubtful. Probably both the word and the association were introduced into Naples by Spaniards....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Calhoun" to "Camoens"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Calhoun" to "Camoens" - Volume 5, Slice 1CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL (1782-1850), American statesman and parliamentarian, was born, of Scottish-Irish descent, in Abbeville District, South Carolina, on the 18th of March 1782. His father, Patrick Calhoun, is said to have been...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "England" to "English Finance"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "England" to "English Finance" - Volume 9, Slice 4ENGLAND. Geographical usage confines to the southern part of the island of Great Britain the name commonly given to the great insular power of western Europe.1 In this restricted sense the present...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin" to "Ehrenbreitstein"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin" to "Ehrenbreitstein" - Volume 9, Slice 1EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN (1819-1868), English soldier-statesman in India, was born at Frodesley in Shropshire on the 12th of November 1819. His father was Benjamin Edwardes, rector of Frodesley, and...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Drama" to "Dublin"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Drama" to "Dublin" - Volume 8, Slice 7While the scattered and persecuted strollers thus kept alive something of the popularity, if not of the loftier traditions, of their art, neither, on the other hand, was there an utter absence of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dodwell, Edward" to "Drama"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dodwell, Edward" to "Drama" - Volume 8, Slice 6DODWELL, EDWARD (1767-1832), English traveller and writer on archaeology. He belonged to the same family as Henry Dodwell the theologian, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled from 1801 to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dinard" to "Dodsworth, Roger"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dinard" to "Dodsworth, Roger" - Volume 8, Slice 5DINARD, a seaside town of north-western France, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine. The town, which is the chief watering-place of Brittany, is situated on a rocky promontory at the mouth of the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" - Volume 8, Slice 4DIAMETER (from the Gr. , through, , measure), in geometry, a line passing through the centre of a circle or conic section and terminated by the curve; the principal diameters of the ellipse...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" - Volume 7, Slice 6COUCY-LE-CHTEAU, a village of northern France, in the department of Aisne, 18 m. W.S.W. of Laon on a branch of the Northern railway. Pop. (1906) 663. It has extensive remains of fortifications of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cosway, Richard" to "Coucy, Le Châtelain de"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cosway, Richard" to "Coucy, Le Châtelain de" - Volume 7, Slice 5COSWAY, RICHARD (c. 1742-1821), English miniature painter, was baptized in 1742; his father was master of Blundells school, Tiverton, where Cosway was educated, and his uncle mayor of that...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coquelin, Benoît Constant" to "Costume"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Coquelin, Benoît Constant" to "Costume" - Volume 7, Slice 4COQUELIN, BENOT CONSTANT (1841-1909), French actor, known as Coquelin an, was born at Boulogne on the 23rd of January 1841. He was originally intended to follow his fathers trade of baker...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Convention" to "Copyright"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Convention" to "Copyright" - Volume 7, Slice 3CONVENTION (Lat. _conventio_, an assembly or agreement, from _convenire_, to come together), a meeting or assembly; an agreement between parties; a general agreement on which is based some custom, institution, rule of behaviour...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Conduction, Electric"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Conduction, Electric" - Volume 6, Slice 8 CONDUCTION, ELECTRIC. The electric conductivity of a substance is that property in virtue of which all its parts come spontaneously to the same electric potential if the substance is kept free from the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Columbus" to "Condottiere"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Columbus" to "Condottiere" - Volume 6, Slice 7COLUMBUS, a city and the county-seat of Muscogee county, Georgia, U.S.A., on the E. bank and at the head of navigation of the Chattahoochee river, about 100 m. S.S.W. of Atlanta. Pop. (1890)...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" - Volume 6, Slice 6COCKAIGNE (Cockayne), LAND OF (O. Fr. Coquaigne, mod. Fr. cocagne, abundance, from Ital. Cocagna; as we say Lubberland, the epicures or gluttons home, the land of all delights, so taken in mockerie:...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Clervaux" to "Cockade"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Clervaux" to "Cockade" - Volume 6, Slice 5CLERVAUX (clara vallis), a town in the northern province of Oesling, grand-duchy of Luxemburg, on the Clerf, a tributary of the Sre. Pop. (1905) 866. In old days it was the fief of...
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