Athel
or ETHEL, an Old English word meaning noble, eminent not only in blood or by descent but in mind; frequently a part of Anglo-Saxon proper names.
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Athel, Atheling, Athelney.
Atheling
a title of honor among Anglo-Saxons, meaning one the who is of noble blood. The title was gradually confined to the princes of the blood royal, and in the 9th and 10th centuries is used exclusively for the sons or brothers of the reigning king. It was first conferred on Edgar by Edward the Confessor, his grand-uncle, who bestowed it when he designed to make him successor to himself on the throne.
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Athelney
formerly an island in the midst of fens and marshes, now drained and cultivated, in Somersetshire, England, about 7 miles S. E. of Bridgewater. Alfred the Great took refuge in it during a Danish invasion, and afterward founded an abbey there.
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Athelstan
ADELSTAN, ETHEL- STAN, or EALSTAN, an Anglo-Saxon King, the on and successor of Edward the Elder, and grandson of Alfred the Great; born in 895, and on Edward's death, in 925, was chosen king by the people of Mercia and Wessex. Northumbria, Scotland, and the British states of Cumberland, Wales, and Cornwall, acknowledged him as their superior lord, and his alliance was courted by all the princes of western Europe. Louis IV. of France was protected by Athelstan during the usurpation of Raoul, and recovered the throne by his aid. The Emperor Otho the Great married his sister Elgiva. In 937, Constantine of Scotland, and other princes, formed a league against Athelstan, who totally defeated them. He died at Gloucester, A. D. 941.
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Athena
or ATHENE, a Greek goddess, identified by the Romans with Minerva. According to the legend, before her birth Zeus swallowed her mother, and Athena afterward sprang from the head of Zeus with a mighty war shout and in complete armor. In her character of a wise and prudent warrior she was contrasted with the fierce Ares (Mars). In the wars of the giants she slew the famed Enceladus. The sculptor, the architect, and the painter, as well as the philosopher, the orator and the poet, considered her their tutelar deity. She is also represented among the healing gods. In the images of the goddess a manly gravity and an air of reflection are united with female beauty in her features. As a warrior she is represented completely armed, her head covered with a gold helmet. As the goddess of peaceful arts she appears in the dress of a Grecian matron. To her insignia belong the ægis, the Gorgon's head, the round argive buckler; and the owl, the cock, the serpent, an olive branch, and a lance were sacred to her. All Attica, particularly Athens, was sacred there. Her most brilliant festival at to her, and she had numerous temples Athens was the Panathenæa, participated in by all the tribes of the city-state.
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Athene
a-the'ne, or Athena, in Greek mythology, the goddess of knowledge and of righteous war, identified with the Roman Minerva. She personified not only mental acuteness, but also the clear upper air, and was clothed with the aegis, or storm cloud, and armed with lightning. She is often called Pallas Athene. See Minerva
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Athenian Bee
a name conferred upon Plato, in allusion to the beauty and sweetness of his style. See Plato
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Athens
In 124, he received from Hadrian the Roman citizenship, and from this time assumed the name of Flavius. Arrian was one of the best writers of his time. He was a close imitator of Xenophon both in the subjects of his works and in the style in which they were written. The most important of them is his History of the expedition of Alexander the Great, in seven books, which was based upon the most trustworthy histories written by the contemporaries of Alexander.
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Athens (City and county-seat of Clarke)
city and county-seat of Clarke co., Ga.; on the Oconee river, and the Central of Georgia, the Georgia, the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line railroads; 67 miles E. of Atlanta, the State capital. It is in a cotton-growing region; has a large trade in that staple; and contains cotton and woolen, cottonseed oil, bobbin, and hosiery mills, iron works, furniture factories, and other industrial plants. It is the seat of the University of Georgia, the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Lucy Cobb Institute, and a State Normal School. There are electric light and street railway plants, banks, several hotels, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 14,913; (1920) 16,748.
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Athens (City of Ohio the countyseat)
a city of Ohio, the countyseat of Athens co., on the Hocking river, and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Toledo and Ohio Central, and the Hocking Valley railroads. It has important manufactures of umber products and is the center of an important coal-mining region. There is situated the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (q. v.), a State hospital for the insane, a library, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,463; (1920) 6,418.
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Atherine
a pretty little fish, from five to six inches long, called also the sandsmelt. It is the A. presbyter of Cuvier. It is found along the southern coasts of Europe, occupying a region distinct from that in which the smelt (osmerus eperlanus) occurs. It is used as food. There is an American species, the menidia notata, commonly called silversides. Of the form atherina, a genus of fishes of the order acanthopterygii and the family mugilidæ (mullets). Several species are known in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. The young, which congregate together, are the aphyes of the ancients. Now, in the S. of Europe, they are called nonnat.
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Atherton
GERTRUDE FRANK- LIN, an American author, born in San Francisco, Cal.; a great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin; was educated in California and Kentucky, and married the late George H. B. Atherton. She began her literary work while living in San Francisco in 1878, and has made a specialty of describing Spanish life in California as it was previous to 1846. Her publications include "The Doomswoman" (1892); "Before the Gringo Came" (1894); "American Wives and English Husbands" (1898); "The Californians" (1898); "A Daughter of the Vine" (1899); "Senator North" (1900); "Aristocrats" (1901); "Rulers of Kings" (1904); "Rezanov" (1906); "Ancestors" (1907); "The Tower of Ivory" (1910); Perch of the Devil" (1914); "Mrs. Balfame" (1916); etc.
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