These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Ahasuerus, Ahmadabad, Ahmed Mirza.
or AHASHVEROSH, the name of the Persian monarch whose story is recorded in the Book of Esther. He is probably the same king as the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greek historians, whose reign commenced B. c. 465.
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(The Seizer). Practically nothing is known of this Semitic demon unless it is the same ahazie told of in medical texts, where a man can be stricken by a disease bearing this name.
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chief town of a district in Guzerat, India, second among the cities of the province of Bombay. It was built in the year 1412 by Ahmad Shah, and finally came under the power of the British in 1818. Its architectural relics are gorgeous, even in the midst of decay, and illustrate the combination of Saracenic with Hindu forms, mainly of the Jain type. The Jama Masjid, or great mosque, rises from the center of the city, and is adorned by two superbly decorated minarets. There is likewise an ivory mosque, so called because, although built of white marble, it is lined with ivory, and inlaid with a profusion of gems. It is famous for its manufacture of rich fabrics of silk and cotton, brocades, and articles of gold, silver, steel, and enamel. The pottery is very superior; and paper of various sorts is largely manufactured chiefly from jute. Pop. about 250,000. The district, mainly a great alluvial plain, has an area of 3,821 square miles and a population of about 900,000.
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Shah of Persia, born in 1898. He succeeded his fat father, Mohammed Ali, when the latter was deposed from the throne on July 16, 1909. AHMED MIRZA On account of his youth when he became shah, he was not able to take an active part in the administration of his government during the first years of his reign, but he gradually acquired the ability to and of nitrogen, 79.10; or of 10,000 parts, there are, in perfectly dry air, air, of nitrogen, 7,912, oxygen, 2,080, carbonic acid, 4, carburetted hydrogen, 4, with a trace of ammonia. But air never is dry; it has always in it a varying amount of watery vapor. The density of air being fixed at the round number 1,000, it is made the standard with which the specific gravity of other substances is compared. If water be made unity, then the specific gravity of dry air is .0012759. At 62° Fahr. it is 810 times lighter than water, and 11,000 times lighter than mercury. At the surface of the sea, the mean pressure is sufficient to balance a column of mercury 30 inches, or one of water 34 feet, in height. Air, in music, is a piece composed of a certain number of melodious phrases, united in a regular symmetrical form, and terminating in the key in which it began.
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a'ri-man. See Zoroaster
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The name given to the Chief of the Cacodaemons , or fallen angels, by the Persians and Chaldeans. These Cacodaemons were believed to have been expelled from Heaven for their sins; they endeavoured to settle down in various parts of the earth, but were always rejected, and out of revenge they find their pleasure in injuring the inhabitants. Xenocritus thought that penance and selfmortification, though not agreeable to the gods, pacified the malice of the Cacodaemons. Ahrimanes and his Alain followers finally took up their abode in all the space between the earth and the fixed stars, and there established their domain, which is called Arhiman-abad. As Ahrimanes was the spirit of evil his counterpart in Persian dualism was Ormuzd, the creative and benevolent being. (See Persia.)
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An Ishmaelite sect of the Assassins (q.v.) who continued to exist after the stronghold of that society was destroyed. They held secret meetings for receptions , and possessed signs, words, and a catechism. (See The . (See The Asian Mystery, Rev. C. L. Lyde.) Air Assisting Ghosts to become Visible: It was formerly believed by some authorities that a ghost was wrapped in air, by which means it became visible. Thus a spectre might appear wherever there was air. One of the five elementary principles of nature, mentioned in The Science of Breath, a Hindu Yoga. It is the first of these principles; is given by "The Great Power," and out of it the others are created . These ethers may be likened to the five senses of man. order to hear distinct sounds, the Hindu theosophist "concentrates" himself upon Akasa.
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plants that are not rooted in the ground, but are attached to the bark of other plants. They live in the air without earth or water, and derive their nourishment from the air. Doubtless these plants also draw food from the decaying wood and bark of the plants to which they are attached. They are to be distinguished from parasites which suck the sap of other plants. Strictly speaking, all mosses and lichens growing on the trunks of trees are air-plants. The Druid-like beards that reach to the bosoms of Longfellow's Acadian hemlocks, and the Spanish moss that drapes the forests in the swamps and along the shores of the Gulf States, are air-plants. The name is restricted, usually, to flowering plants, including a large number of showy orchids growing in moist, hot, shady localities like the forests of the Amazon and of India. See Orchids ; Moss; Lichens 2026 Editor's Note: Air plants — epiphytes — became a twenty-first-century houseplant craze, Tillandsia sold by the millions precisely because they need no soil. The 'Druid-like beards' the article admires are Spanish moss , neither Spanish nor moss but a bromeliad, once harvested by the ton to stuff mattresses and Model-T seats. (Ed: BR 2026-06-19)
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a gauge for testing the extent to which the air has been exhausted in the receiver of an air-pump. It consists of a glass tube bent like a siphon. One leg is closed, as in a barometer, the other open. It is placed under a small bell jar communicating by a stopcock with the receiver, and the more nearly the mercury stands at the same level the more nearly has a vacuum been produced. AIR-SHIPS. See AERONAUTICS,
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