Michael
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Michael. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of several emsucceeded to the throne in 811, abdicated, on occasion of a military sedition, in favor of Leo the Armenian, 813. Died in 846. MICHAEL II. succeeded Leo the Armenian, 820; died in 829. MICHAEL III. succeeded in the third year of his age, 842, under the guardianship of his mother, Theodora. In he made Basil, the Macedonian, his associate in the empire, who killed him in 867. MICHAEL IV. was raised to the throne by Zoe, after she had poisoned her husband, Romanus Argyrus, 1034. He died in 1041. MICHAEL V., nephew of the preceding, occupied the throne a few months after his death, and was dethroned by by Zoe and Theodora, 1042. MICHAEL VI. succeeded Theodora in 1056, and was dethroned by his officers, who elevated Isaac Comnenus to the imperial dignity in 1057. MICHAEL VII., son of Constantine Ducas and Eudoxia, succeeded his being dethroned by father, 1067; and nd Nicephorus Botoniates in 1078, retired to a monastery, and died Archbishop sus. MICHAEL VIII., sur of Ephesus. surnamed Palæologus, regent of the empire during the minority of John Lascaris, whom he deprived of his eyes and throne in 1260, and in the following year took Constantinople. He died in 1288. MICHAEL ANGELO. See ANGELO. MICHELET a French historian; born in Paris, France, , JULES (mesh-lā), Aug. 21, 1798. After the revolution of 1830 he was appointed chief of the historical section of the archives of France , and in 1838 became Professor of History at the College of France and an Academician. He lost all his offices at the coup d'état in 1851. His principal historical works are: "History of France" (21 vols. 1833-1875); "Roman History"; "The Beginnings of French Law"; and others of less importance. Several of his works on social subjects deserve erve mention: "On the Jesuits" (1843 written in collaboration with Edgar Quinet; ), "Woman, Priest, and Family" (1844); "The People" (1846). About 1856 he her path, and wrote turned into another and published works on natural history and philosophy. A collection of his begun in 1895. He died in works was orks was Hyères, France, Feb. 5, 1874.
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920)
An archangel; in the Hebrew, "He who is equal to God." In Revelation it is said there was war in : heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon : and from this it is deduced that Michael was the leader of the celestial hierarchy , -as against Lucifer , the head of the disobedient angels. Michael is mentioned by name four other times in the Scriptures in Daniel as the champion of the Jewish Church against Persia in Jude as the archangel who fought with Satan for Moses' body by Gabriel he is called the prince of the Jewish who prince of the Jewish Church; and in the prophecy of Enoch , "Michael ..... who commands the nations." His design according to Randle Holme is a banner hanging on a cross ; and he is represented as victory with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forecross on his forehead. Bishop Horsley and others considered Michael as only another name for the Son of God. In one of the Jewish rabbinical legends he is the ruler of Mercury , to which sphere he " imparts benignity, motion and intellimotion and intelligence, with elegance and consonance of speech." 66