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The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Ebert to EstremaduraThe New Gresham Encyclopedia. Ebert to Estremadura - Volume 4, Part 2The method of marking pronunciations here employed is either (1) by marking the syllable on which the accent falls, or (2) by a simple system of transliteration, to which the following is the...
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The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to EberswaldeThe New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde - Volume 4, Part 1The method of marking pronunciations here employed is either (1) by marking the syllable on which the accent falls, or (2) by a simple system of transliteration, to which the following is the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" - Volume 10, Slice 5FLEURY, CLAUDE (1640-1723), French ecclesiastical historian, was born at Paris on the 6th of December 1640. Destined for the bar, he was educated at the aristocratic college of Clermont (now that of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" - Volume 10, Slice 4FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa), a grand-duchy governed subject to its own constitution by the emperor of Russia as grand-duke of Finland. It is situated between the gulfs of Bothnia and Finland,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" - Volume 10, Slice 3FENTON, EDWARD (d. 1603), English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (q.v.), was a native of Nottinghamshire. In 1577 he sailed, in command of the Gabriel, with...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" - Volume 9, Slice 8ETHIOPIA, or Aethiopia (Gr. ), the ancient classical name of a district of north-eastern Africa, bounded on the N. by Egypt and on the E. by the Red Sea.1 The application of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Equation" to "Ethics"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Equation" to "Ethics" - Volume 9, Slice 7EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize), an expression or statement of the equality of two quantities. Mathematical equivalence is denoted by the sign =, a symbol invented by Robert Recorde (1510-1558), who...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English Language" to "Epsom Salts"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" - Volume 9, Slice 6ENGLISH LANGUAGE. In its historical sense, the name English is now conveniently used to comprehend the language of the English people from their settlement in Britain to the present day, the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English History"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English History" - Volume 9, Slice 5With the coming of Augustine to Kent the darkness which for nearly two centuries had enwrapped the history of Britain begins to clear away. From the days of Honorius to those of Gregory the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Electrostatics" to "Engis"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Electrostatics" to "Engis" - Volume 9, Slice 3ELECTROSTATICS, the name given to that department of electrical science in which the phenomena of electricity at rest are considered. Besides their ordinary condition all bodies are capable of being thrown into a...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Ehud" to "Electroscope"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Ehud" to "Electroscope" - Volume 9, Slice 2EHUD, in the Bible, a judge who delivered Israel from the Moabites (Judg. iii. 12-30). He was sent from Ephraim to bear tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who had crossed over the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Echinoderma" to "Edward, prince of Wales"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Echinoderma" to "Edward, prince of Wales" - Volume 8, Slice 10ECHINODERMA.1 The , or urchin-skinned animals, have long been a favourite subject of study with the collectors of sea-animals or of fossils, since the lime deposited in their skins forms...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dyer, Sir Edward" to "Echidna"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dyer, Sir Edward" to "Echidna" - Volume 8, Slice 9DYER, SIR EDWARD (d. 1607), English courtier and poet, son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., was born at Sharpham Park, Somersetshire. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dübner, Johann Friedrich" to "Dyeing"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dübner, Johann Friedrich" to "Dyeing" - Volume 8, Slice 8DBNER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (1802-1867), German classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman), was born in Hr selgau, near Gotha, on the 20th of December 1802. After studying at the university of Gttingen he...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bible" to "Bisectrix"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bible" to "Bisectrix" - Volume 3, Slice 7BIBLE. The word Bible, which in English, as in medieval Latin, is treated as a singular noun, is in its original Greek form a plural, , the (sacred) bookscorrectly expressing the fact that...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" - Volume 3, Slice 6BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852-1897), English traveller, was the son of James Bent of Baildon House, near Leeds, Yorkshire, where he was born on the 30th of March 1852. He was educated at...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bedlam" to "Benson, George"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bedlam" to "Benson, George" - Volume 3, Slice 5BEDLAM, or Bethlehem Hospital, the first English lunatic asylum, originally founded by Simon FitzMary, sheriff of London, in 1247, as a priory for the sisters and brethren of the order of the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Basso-relievo" to "Bedfordshire"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Basso-relievo" to "Bedfordshire" - Volume 3, Slice 4BASSO-RELIEVO (Ital. for low relief), the term applied to sculpture in which the design projects but slightly from the plane of the background. The relief may not project at all from the original...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Atherstone" to "Austria"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Atherstone" to "Austria" - Volume 2, Slice 8ATHERSTONE, WILLIAM GUYBON (1813-1898), British geologist, one of the pioneers in South African geology, was born in 1813, in the district of Uitenhage, Cape Colony. Having qualified as M.D. he settled in early...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" - Volume 2, Slice 7ARUNDEL, THOMAS (1353-1414), archbishop of Canterbury, was the third son of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and Warenne, by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, earl of Lancaster. His family...
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