More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Faure
Collier's New Encyclopedia: FRANÇOIS FÉLIX, President of the French Republic; born in Paris, Jan. 30, 1841; was for a time a tanner in Touraine, but became a wealthy shipowner in Havre. During the Franco-Prussian war he commanded a body of volunteers, and gained the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. He entered the Assembly in 1881; served as colonial and commercial minister in the Cabinets of Gambetta, Jules Favre, and Tirard, and as Minister of Marine in that of Dupuy. A moderate republican, he was elected president of the republic on the resignation of Casimir-Périer in 1895. , Feb. 16, 1899. He died in Paris, France
Aiton's Encyclopedia: for, Felix (1841-1899), a French statesman. He was a native of Paris and died in that city. Faure was for a time a tanner, and later a shipowner of Havre. He commanded a company of volunteers in the Franco-Prussian War , and was decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor . In 1881 he was elected to the French Assembly. A knowledge of shipping and colonial affairs gained at Havre led to his appointment as cabinet minister and minister of marine. In 1895 he was elected president. After two attempts on his life by Nihilists, he died in office.
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Fawkes
Collier's New Encyclopedia: FAUX, or VAUX, GUY, an English conspirator; born in York, England, in 1570. He enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands, where he was found by Winter, one of the anti- Protestant conspirators, and with him returned to England, in 1604, after agreeing to assist in the Gunpowder Plot. He passed under the name of Johnson, as servant to Thomas Percy, another conspirator, and was placed to lodge in the house next to the Parliament House. After collecting the necessary combustibles, Fawkes worked his way into the coal cellar under the House of Lords, and after storing it with gunpowder, etc., was appointed to the dangerous duty of firing the mine. The government having had timely information of the detestable plot, the House of Lords and its cellar was searched, and Fawkes found secreted amid some casks of gunpowder, Nov. 5, 1605. He was at once arrested, soon after tried, and Jan. 31, 1606, suffered death at Westminster with several of the other conspirators.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: Guy. See Gunpowder Plot
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Fern
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: The common Fern, it was believed, was in flower at midnight on St. John's Eve, and whoever got possession of the flower would be protected from all evil influences, and would obtain a revelation of hidden treasure. Fern seed was supposed to render one invisible.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: or FARNE, ISLANDS, a group Pecast the N FERROL
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Fifth-Monarchy Men
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in English history, a set of fanatics who formed a principal support of Cromwell during the Protectorate. They considered his assumption of power as an earnest of the foundation of the fifth monarchy, which should succeed to the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman, and in which Jesus Christ should reign with the saints on earth for the space of 1,000 years. Upon the restoration of the royal family, and the return of the kingdom to its former principles in Church and State, a party of these enthusiasts, headed by a man of the name of Venner, made a desperate insurrection in the streets of London, which was put down with the slaughter of a great number of them.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a name assumed by a sect of English Second Adventists in the time of Cromwell. They attempted risings to establish a fifth kingdom. They asserted that Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome were to be succeeded by a fifth monarchy over which Christ would rule in person. Risings were suppressed in 1657 and 1661.
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Finch
Collier's New Encyclopedia: FRANCIS MILES, an Ameri can poet, and associate judge of N. Y. Court of Appeals; born in Ithaca, N. Y., June 9, 1827. He was graduated at Yale; and was the author of the well- "The known lyrics "Nathan Hale" and Blue and the Gray," and of several popular college songs. He died July 31, 1907.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: the largest family of birds. It comprises over 550 species. The name is interchangeable with sparrow and bunting. The grosbeak, cardinal bird , indigo bird , crossbill, snowflake, red-poll, goldfinch, chaffinch, linnet, bunting, and canary are all finches. Goldfinch. Finch
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Fingal's Cave
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a noted cavern on the island of Staffa off the western coast of Scotland. A flood of volcanic rock contracted into perpendicular six-sided columns in cooling, as basaltic rock is apt to do. The waves on the stormy coast have broken their way through these loose columns or splinters to a distance of 227 feet into the cliff. The cave is 42 feet wide at its entrance, 22 feet wide at the rear, and 66 feet high. When the sea is not too rough tourists may enjoy a fine boat ride in this vast awe-inspiring chamber with vaulted roof and beautiful columnar sides. The cave is named for a legendary Celtic chieftain. See Fenians
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a curious cavern formed of basaltic columns, in the Isle of Staffa, one of the Hebrides, on the W. coast of Scotland, 25 miles from Oban. See BASALT. See DEAF FINGER ALPHABET. AND DUMB.
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Finishing
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in the manufacture of textiles, a term used to include all the numerous processes to which textiles of every description are subjected after leaving the loom or other machine by means of which the fabric is produced. These processes vary in number and character according to the raw materials used, the purpose to which the fabric is to be put, and the special quality or feature which it is desirable to make conspicuous. Finishing includes washing, starching, pressing, tentering, calendering, watering, glazing, lustering, perching, mending, burling, inspecting, fulling, shearing, brushing, napping, measuring, folding. These processes are explained under the various headings.
The Encyclopedia of Founding: This term refers generally to all the processes connected with preparing a mould for casting after the pattern has been withdrawn; but especially to manipulations with the regular moulder's tools, such as smoothing over the blackening after it has been brushed or swabbed over dry-sand and loam moulds. See DRESSING; LOAM-MOULDING.
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Flora
1000 Classical Characters: The goddess of flowers and gardens among the Romans. She was the same as the Chloris of the Greeks. Florentia (Firenze, Florence). A town in Etruria and subsequently a Roman colony, situated on the Arnus; but its greatness as a city dates from the Middle Ages . Florus, L. Annaeus. A Roman historian, lived under Trajan and Hadrian, and wrote a summary of Roman history, which is extant, divided into four books, extending from the foundation of the city to the time of Augustus.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Mythology
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