These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Act of Settlement, Acta Sanctorum, Actaeon.
an act of the Parliament of England in 1701, vesting the hereditary right to the English throne in Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and her Protestant descendants, constituting the source of the sovereignty of the house of Hanover or Brunswick, the present ruling line. The act prohibited the king (or queen) from going to war in defense of non- non-English powers without the assent of Parliament.
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or MARTY- RUM, the collective title given to several old writings, respecting saints and martyrs in the Greek and Roman Catholic Churches, but now applied especially to one extensive collection begun by the Jesuits in the 17th century. Commenced by the Jesuit Rosweyd, continued by J. Bolland, the work was carried on after the latter's death by a society of learned Jesuits, who were styled Bollandists until 1794. In recent times, the undertaking has been resumed, until over 60 volumes have been published.
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A famous huntsman, the son of Aristaeus and Autonoë, the daughter of Cadmus . On one occasion he inadvertently beheld Diana and her nymphs bathing in a pool in the woods, and for this offense was changed by the goddess into a stag, and was hunted down and killed by his own hounds.
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A freed woman of Asiatic origin. She was introduced into the household of Nero by Seneca, according to Tacitus (Ann. 14, 2), in order to counteract the influence of Agrippina .
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a genus of plants belonging to the order ranunculaceæ, or crowfoots. One species, the A. spicata = the bane-berry, or herb-christopher, is in digenous to many lands. It bears black berries, which are poisonous. With alum, they yield a black dye. The roots are antispasmodic, expectorant, and astringent. A. racemosa, the snakeroot. receives its English name from being used in the United States as an antidote against the bite of the rattlesnake.
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in zoölogy, a genus of polyps with many arms radiating from around their mouth, in a manner somewhat resembling the rays of the sun surrounding his disc, or a double flower. From this arrangement of the tentacles, coupled with the bright colors of these flowers. Though simple and not aggregated, they still have a somewhat close affinity to the coral-building polyps.
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an instrument for recording the variations of chemical influence of the solar rays and of other radiations. ACTINOLITE (Greek aktis, genit. aktinos a ray, and lithos a stone. The translation of the German strahlstein= radiated stone), a variety of amphibole. It is the actinote of Haüy. Its affinity and composition are indicated by Dara's compound name for it-magnesia-limeiron amphibole. It is bright green, or grayish-green, the green color being imparted by the iron it contains.
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an instrument for measuring the chemical effects of radiation from any source, especially the sun.
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the name now given to a disease long known to occur in cattle, but confounded with tubercle or sarcoma. In 1877, Bollinger, of Munich, showed that little yellow grains are always present, consisting of a minute fungus, with its mycelium arranged in a radiate manner. To this fungus he gave the name actinomyces; and further observation has confirmed his view that it is the cause of the disease. Actinomycosis is most common in cattle; occurs also in pigs, and (rarely) in man.
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the method of treating diseases by chemical or actinic rays. See PHOTOTHERAPY.
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a class of animals included in the radiata of the system of Cuvier, but combined with hydrozoa to form the class coelenterata in the systems of Frey, Leuckart, and Huxley. It contains the sea-anemones and coral polyps.
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in law, a judicial proceeding before a court of justice to secure redress for the infringement of a right. In courts of equity a corresponding proceeding is termed a suit. Actions are classified as civil and criminal. Civil actions are instituted to enforce a private right or to obtain redress for a private wrong. Civil actions are personal, when claiming recovery of personal property or damages in lieu thereof; real, when concerning the recovery of land, rents, etc.; or mixed, when partaking of the character of both. Criminal actions are brought by the state against some person accused of having committed a crime. Statutory actions are based on statutes, while common-law actions are enforced without the aid of a statute.
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a town and promontory of Epirus, famous for the naval victory which Augustus obtained over Antony and Cleopatra, the 2d of September, B. C. 31, in honor of which the conqueror built there the town of Nicopolis, and restored the Actian games instituted in honor of Apollo.
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the fifth book of the New Testament. It contains narrative of the achievements of the leading apostles and especially of St. Paul. Its author was St. Luke, who was Paul's companion from the time of his visit to Troas to the advanced period of his life when he penned the second epistle, to Timothy. Internal evidence would seem to show that it was written in all probability about A. D. 61. The undesigned ADAM and EVE coincidences between the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul are numerous and important.
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in civil law, a registrar or clerk of a court; also an officer of a mercantile or insurance company, skilled in financial calculations, specially on such subjects as the expectancy of life. He is generally manager of the company, under the nominal or real superintendence of a board of directors.
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a city of Oklahoma, the countyseat of Pontotoc co. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the Oklahoma Central railroads. Its most important industries are the manufacture of cement and asphalt and the growing of cotton. It is the center of an important agricultural and mineral-producing region and is the seat of the State normal school. Pop. (1910) 4,349; (1920) 8,012.
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a slow very slow movement or measure of time in music. The distinctive feature of the adagio being its power of expression, it affords the most direct means to the composer of manifesting his individuality of feeling. The finest specimens of the adagio are found in the works of the old masters, above all in Beethoven.
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