These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Agesander, Agglutination, Agla.
a famous sculptor of Rhodes, who, in the time of Vespasian, made a representation of the Laocoon's history, which now passes for the finest relic of all ancient sculpture. The Laocoon was discovered at Rome in 1506, and afterward deposited in the Farnese palace, where it still remains.
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The act of uniting, by means of some viscous substance, as glue, molasses, etc., which causes an adhesion or sticking together of parts or particles which of themselves have no adhesiveness. Silica-sand with molasses; the various free-sands for cores with glue, flour, rosin, etc., are familiar examples of agglutinants, and their usefulness in foundry practice. See CORE-SAND; FLOUR; GLUE.
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A kabalistic word used by the rabbis for the exorcisms of the evil spirit. It is made up of the initial letters of the Hebrew words, Athah gabor leolam, Adonai , meaning, “ Thou art powerful and eternal, Lord." Not only among the Jews was this word employed, but among the more superstitious Christians it was a favourite weapon with which to combat the evil one, even so late as the sixteenth century. It is also to be found in many books on magic, notably in the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III.
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ST. or more. The battle lasted three hours, and was a signal victory for the English, due mainly to the archers. As many as 10,000 Frenchmen are said to have fallen. The English lost 1,600 killed.
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ST., a holy woman, who suffered martyrdom in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian. Her emblem is a lamb, and her calendar day Jan. 21.
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an important river in the N. W. part of Luzon, Philippine Islands. It is about 125 miles in length, describing a circuitous course, parallel with a range of coast mountains, and emptying into Lingayen Gulf.
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a school of thought which believes that, beyond what man can know by his senses or feel by his higher affections, nothing can be known. Facts, or, supposed facts, both of the lower and the higher life, are accepted, but all inferences deduced from these facts as to the existence of an unseen world, or of beings higher than man, are considered unsatisfactory, and are ignored.
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in ecclesiastical affairs, the figure of a lamb bearing a cross. The emblem is symbolical of the Saviour, the Lamb of God, a sacrifice offered for the redemption of a guilty world. The medieval sculptors used the emblem freely in their designs. The small cake made with the wax of Easter candles, and imprinted with this figure, is known as an Agnus Dei. The popes used to bless these cakes and distribute them freely on the Sunday after Easter. In later days of the church, however, the pope sends an Agnus Dei only to prominent ecclesiastics and this only on the occasion of his election and every seven years thereafter. The gift of a papal Agnus Dei is considered an honor. An anthem introduced into the Catholic Missal about 700 is called Agnus Dei. It is a paraphrase of John i:29. It takes its name from the opening Latin words which signify "O, Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, have pity on us." This anthem has a prominent part in the celebration of mass. 2026 Editor's Note: The blessed wax cakes have faded from use, but the Agnus Dei endures as one of the fixed parts of the Latin Mass — the 'Lamb of God' sung near communion — and so appears in nearly every musical Mass and Requiem from Palestrina and Mozart to Fauré. (Ed: BR 2026-06-05)
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imaginary lines on the surface of the earth on which the declination of the magnetic needle is zero, i. e. at any point of which the magnetic needle points to the true north or south. There are two such lines, the principal one encircling the earth through the poles, passing through North and South A America, ca, the Antarctic Ocean, Australia, western Asia and Europe, and a smaller one included almost wholly eastern Asia. In America, east of the in agonic line the needle always of true north; west of the line, it points points west of east true north. AGRICULTURAL CREDITS ACT. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23).
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capital of the former Hungarian crownland of Croatia-Slavonia, lies at the foot of a richly wooded range of mountains, about 2 miles from the Save, and 142 miles N. E. of Fiume by rail. It is divided into three parts-the upper town, built upon two eminences; the lower tow town; and the episcopal town. The cathedral, sida dating partly from the 11th century, is one of the finest Gothic buildings in Austria. Ninety per cent. of the inhabitants are Croats, who carry on a trade in wine, wood, and corn, and manufacture tobacco, leather, and linen. Repeated shocks of earthquake, in November, 1880, and again in December, 1901, did serious damage to the city's buildings. Agram possesses a university, founded in 1874, numerous secondary schools and libraries. Pop. about 85,000. AGRAM NATIONAL COUNCIL. In November, 1918, after the armistice had been signed and the Hapsburg Empire was rapidly disintegrating, representa tives of the Jugoslav provinces formerly under Austro-Hungarian control met in a National Council at Agram. They unanimously voted for the union of all these provinces with Serbia and Montenegro and chose Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia as Regent of the new state whose official name was fixed as the "Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes."
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in the ancient Roman republic, were laws of which the most important were those carried by C. Licinius Stolo, when tribune of the people, in B. C. 367. The second rogation, among other enactments, provided (1) (1) that no one should occupy more than 500 jugera (by one calculation, about 280, and by another, 333, English acres) of the public lands, or have more than 100 large, and 500 small, cattle grazing upon them; (2) that such portion of the public lands above 500 jugera as was in possession of individuals should be divided among all the plebeians, in lots of seven jugera, as property; (3) that the occupiers of public land were bound to employ free laborers, in a certain fixed proportion to the extent of their occupation. When, at a later period, efforts were made to revive the Licinian rogations, such opposition was excited that the two Gracchi lost their lives in consequence, and this, with their other projects, proved abortive.
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