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Argos – Armor-Piercing Shells

Argos

a town of Greece, in the N.

E. of the Peloponnesus, between the gulfs of Ægina and Nauplia or Argos.

This town and the surrounding territory of Argolis were famous from the legendary period of the Greek history onward, the territory containing, besides Argos, Mycenæ, where Agamemnon ruled, with a kind of sovereignty, over all the Peloponnesus.

Argosy

a poetical name for a large merchant vessel; derived from Ragusa, a port which was formerly more celebrated than now.

Argot

the jargon, slang, or peculiar phraseology of a class or profession; originally the conventional slang of thieves and vagabonds, invented for the purpose of disguise and concealment.

Argyll

CAMPBELLS OF, a historic Scottish family, raised to the peerage in the person of Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow, in 1445. The more eminent members are: ARCHIBALD, Second Earl, killed at the battle of Flodden, 1513.

Ariel

the name of several personages mentioned in the Old Testament; in the demonology of the later Jews a spirit of the waters. In Shakespeare's "Tempest," Ariel was the "tricksy spirit" whom Prospero had in his service.

Aril

or ARILLUS, in some plants, as in the nutmeg, an extra covering of the seed, outside of the true seed coats.

It is either succulent or cartilaginous, colored, elastic, rough or knotted. In the nutmeg it is known as mace.

ARIMATHEA (ar-e-ma-thē'a), a town of Palestine, identified with the modern Ramleh, 22 miles W. N. W. of Jerusalem.

Arithmetical Proportion

the relation existing between four numbers, of which the first is as much greater or less than the second as the third is of medium in writing his "Islendingabók, دو a concise history of Iceland from its settlement (about 870) until 1120. This work was finished between 1134 and 1138.

Arius

the founder of Arianism. See ARIAN.

Arkona

the N. E. promontory of the of this city. The Emperor Constantine island of Rügen, in the Baltic.

Arlington Heights

a range of hills in Fairfax co., Va., on the Potomac, opposite Washington. They were strongly fortified during the Civil War.

Gen. Robert E. Lee had a residence here.

The place is now the site of a National Soldiers' Cemetery.

Armed Neutrality

the condition of affairs when a nation assumes a threatening position, and maintains an armed force to repel any aggression on the part of belligerent nations between which it is neutral. This condition prevailed between the United States and Germany for several weeks in 1917, prior to the declaration of war on April 6.

Armor-Piercing Shells

projectiles so constructed as to bore through the metallic plates with which modern ships of war are coated. It has been stated as an axiom that any armor-plate which may be carried on a ship may be penetrated. A Kruppized plate, eight inches thick, resisted a shell striking it with a velocity of 2,300 feet a second,