Helena
Helena names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Helena One of the most beautiful women of the age in which she lived
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
One of the most beautiful women of the age in which she lived. Her beauty was so universally admired, even in her infancy, that Theseus , with his friend Pirithous , carried her away when she was ten years of age and concealed her with his mother, but she was recovered by Castor and Pollux , and restored to her native country. She married Menelaus , son of Atreus , but when Paris visited Menelaus he persuaded her to fly with him to Troy, в. c. 1198. On this, Menelaus sent ambassadors to the court of Priam to demand her restitution, but in vain, and the result was the Trojan war. When Troy was taken she returned to Menelaus, and after his death she retired to Rhodes, where she was strangled by order of Polyxo, who reigned there. Her beauty and misfortunes have been a theme for the poets in all ages; Tennyson thus speaks of her: "Divinely tall and most divinely fair, A daughter of the gods."
Helena a city of Montana
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Montana, and county-seat of Lewis and Clarke co., near Prickly Pear creek, and on the Great Northern, and the Northern Pacific railroads. It is the commercial center of Montana, northern Idaho, and east-gy ern Washington, and has abundant water power from the Missouri river. It has numerous smelting and reduction works, blast furnaces, foundries, machine shops, granite and sandstone works, and does considerable business in mining, farming, and stock-raising. It is the seat of Montana Wesleyan University, Mount St. Charles College, State Capitol, Federal Buildings, Assay Office, St. Vincent's Academy, Orphans' Home, St. Peter's and St. John's Hospitals. The city has electric lights, and electric street railroads connecting with surrounding towns, daily and weekly newspapers, public library, 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 12,515; (1920) 12,037.
Helena a city and county-seat of Phillips co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Phillips co., Ark.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Missouri and North Arkansas, the Iron Mountain and Southern, and the Yazoo and Mississippi railroads, 90 miles S. W. of Memphis, Tenn. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and is a shipping point for lumber, cotton, and cotton-seed oil. Its manufactures include ! cotton oil, boxes, cotton goods, machinery, canned goods, and finished lumber. It has electric lights, public schools, public library, the Jefferson High School, Sacred Heart Academy, daily and weekly newspapers, and a National bank. Pop. (1910) 8,722; (1920) 9,112.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The mythological Helen's story is told much as it was in 1900, though few scholars now treat the elopement date of "B.C. 1198" as history; excavation at Hisarlik has since dated the likeliest "Troy of the war" layer to roughly that era without any evidence of Helen herself. Helena, Montana, which Collier's counted at 12,037 people in 1920, remains the state capital and has grown to roughly 32,000; its Mount St. Charles College was renamed Carroll College in 1932, and a severe earthquake swarm in October 1935 wrecked much of the downtown Collier's described. Helena, Arkansas, then a cotton and lumber river port of 9,112, went the other way: it consolidated with neighbouring West Helena in 2006 to form Helena-West Helena, and the combined city has since fallen below 10,000 as Delta agriculture mechanised.
Written for this edition, 2026.