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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Malta" to "Map, Walter"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Malta" to "Map, Walter" - Volume 17, Slice 5MALTA, the largest of the Maltese Islands, situated between Europe and Africa, in the central channel which connects the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean Sea. The group belongs to the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Map" to "Mars"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Map" to "Mars" - Volume 17, Slice 6MAP, a representation, on a plane and a reduced scale, of part or the whole of the earths surface. If specially designed to meet the requirements of seamen it is called a chart,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Mars" to "Matteawan"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Mars" to "Matteawan" - Volume 17, Slice 7MARS, in astronomy, the fourth planet in the order of distance from the sun, and the next outside the earth. To the naked eye it appears as a bright star of a decidedly...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Matter" to "Mecklenburg"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Matter" to "Mecklenburg" - Volume 17, Slice 8MATTER. Our conceptions of the nature and structure of matter have been profoundly influenced in recent years by investigations on the Conduction of Electricity through Gases (see Conduction, Electric) and on Radio-activity (q.v.)....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Logarithm" to "Lord Advocate"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Logarithm" to "Lord Advocate" - Volume 16, Slice 8LOGARITHM (from Gr. , word, ratio, and , number), in mathematics, a word invented by John Napier to denote a particular class of function discovered by him, and which may be defined...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Liquid Gases" to "Logar"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Liquid Gases" to "Logar" - Volume 16, Slice 7LIQUID GASES.1 Though Lavoisier remarked that if the earth were removed to very cold regions of space, such as those of Jupiter or Saturn, its atmosphere, or at least a portion of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" to "Letronne, Jean Antoine"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" to "Letronne, Jean Antoine" - Volume 16, Slice 4LEFEBVRE, TANNEGUY (Tanaquillus Faber) (1615-1672), French classical scholar, was born at Caen. After completing his studies in Paris, he was appointed by Cardinal Richelieu inspector of the printing-press at the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "L" to "Lamellibranchia"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "L" to "Lamellibranchia" - Volume 16, Slice 1L a letter which was the twelfth letter of the Phoenician alphabet. It has in its history passed through many changes of form, ending curiously enough in its usual manuscript form with a...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lamennais, Robert de" to "Latini, Brunetto"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lamennais, Robert de" to "Latini, Brunetto" - Volume 16, Slice 2LAMENNAIS, HUGUES FLICIT ROBERT DE (1782-1854), French priest, and philosophical and political writer, was born at Saint Malo, in Brittany, on the 19th of June 1782. He was the son...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Latin Language" to "Lefebvre, François-Joseph"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Latin Language" to "Lefebvre, François-Joseph" - Volume 16, Slice 3LATIN LANGUAGE. 1. Earliest Records of its Area.Latin was the language spoken in Rome and in the plain of Latium in the 6th or 7th century B.C.the earliest period from which...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Letter" to "Lightfoot, John"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Letter" to "Lightfoot, John" - Volume 16, Slice 5LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lightfoot, Joseph" to "Liquidation"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lightfoot, Joseph" to "Liquidation" - Volume 16, Slice 6LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH BARBER (1828-1889), English theologian and bishop of Durham, was born at Liverpool on the 13th of April 1828. His father was a Liverpool accountant. He was educated at King Edwards...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Italy" to "Jacobite Church"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Italy" to "Jacobite Church" - Volume 15, Slice 1ITALY (Italia), the name1 applied both in ancient and in modern times to the great peninsula that projects from the mass of central Europe far to the south into the Mediterranean Sea,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jacobites" to "Japan" (part)Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jacobites" to "Japan" (part) - Volume 15, Slice 2JACOBITES (from Lat. Jacobus, James), the name given after the revolution of 1688 to the adherents, first of the exiled English king James II., then of his descendants, and after the extinction...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Japan" (part) to "Jeveros"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Japan" (part) to "Jeveros" - Volume 15, Slice 3After the abolition of the shgunate and the resumption of administrative functions by the Throne, one of the first acts of the newly organized government was to invite the foreign representatives to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jevons, Stanley" to "Joint"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jevons, Stanley" to "Joint" - Volume 15, Slice 4JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY (1835-1882), English economist and logician, was born at Liverpool on the 1st of September 1835. His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Joints" to "Justinian I."Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Joints" to "Justinian I." - Volume 15, Slice 5JOINTS, in anatomy. The study of joints, or articulations, is known as Arthrology (Gr. ), and naturally begins with the definition of a joint. Anatomically the term is used for any connexion...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Justinian II." to "Kells"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Justinian II." to "Kells" - Volume 15, Slice 6JUSTINIAN II., Rhinotmetus (669-711), East Roman emperor 685-695 and 704-711, succeeded his father Constantine IV., at the age of sixteen. His reign was unhappy both at home and abroad. After a successful...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Kelly, Edward" to "Kite"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Kelly, Edward" to "Kite" - Volume 15, Slice 7KELLY, EDWARD (1854-1880), Australian bushranger, was born at Wallan Wallan, Victoria. His father was a transported Belfast convict, and his mothers family included several thieves. As boys he and his brothers were...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Kite-Flying" to "Kyshtym"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Kite-Flying" to "Kyshtym" - Volume 15, Slice 8KITE-FLYING, the art of sending up into the air, by means of the wind, light frames of varying shapes covered with paper or cloth (called kites, after the birdin German Drache, dragon), which...
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