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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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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" - Volume 2, Slice 6ARMOUR PLATES. The earliest recorded proposal to employ armour for ships of war (for body armour, &c., see Arms and Armour) appears to have been made in England by Sir...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" - Volume 2, Slice 5ARCULF, a Gallican bishop and pilgrim-traveller, who visited the Levant about 680, and was the earliest Christian traveller and observer of any importance in the Nearer East after the rise of Islam....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" - Volume 2, Slice 4ARAM, EUGENE (1704-1759), English scholar, but more famous as the murderer celebrated by Hood in his ballad, the Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Bulwer Lytton in his romance of Eugene Aram,...
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The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to BedlisThe New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis - Vol. 1 Part 3The 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. Amiel to AtrauliThe New Gresham Encyclopedia. Amiel to Atrauli - Vol. 1 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. A to AmideThe New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide - Vol. 1 Part 11, The very broad Ulva. 2, Cornucopia. 3, Caulerpa Cactoides. 4, Acetabularia Mediterranea. 5, Bladder-locks. 6, Long-stalked Laminaria. 7, Sugared Laminaria. 8, Bladder Wrack. 9, Serrated Wrack. 10, Gulf-weed. 11, Thalassiophyllum Clathrus. 12,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Apollodorus" to "Aral"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Apollodorus" to "Aral" - Volume 2, Slice 3APOLLODORUS, an Athenian painter, who flourished at the end of the 5th century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro. What these were it is impossible to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Anjar" to "Apollo"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Anjar" to "Apollo" - Volume 2, Slice 2ANJAR, a fortified town of India, and the capital of a district of the same name in the native state of Cutch, in the presidency of Bombay. The country is dry and sandy,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Appendix: Author ListEncyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Appendix: Author List Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Appendix Subtitle: Author List Author: Various Release Date: September 24, 2010 [EBook #33991] Language: English Credits: Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" - Volume 4, Slice 4BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1590-1657), American colonial governor and historian, was born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, probably in March 1590. He became somewhat estranged from his family, which was one of considerable importance...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" - Volume 4, Slice 3BORGIA, LUCREZIA (1480-1519), duchess of Ferrara, daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, afterwards Pope Alexander VI. (q.v.), by his mistress Vanozza dei Cattanei, was born at Rome in 1480. Her early years...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" - Volume 4, Slice 2BOHEMIA1 (Ger. Bhmen, Czech echy, Lat. Bohemia), a kingdom and crownland of Austria, bounded N.E. by Prussian Silesia, S.E. by Moravia and Lower Austria, S. by Upper Austria, S.W. by Bavaria and...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bisharin" to "Bohea"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bisharin" to "Bohea" - Volume 4, Slice 1BISHRN (the anc. Ichthyophagi), a nomad tribe of African Arabs, of Hamitic origin, dwelling in the eastern part of the Nubian desert. In the middle ages they were known as Beja (q.v.), and...
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