Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Roxburghshire, 54 miles N. W. of Jedburgh, was in 1544 the scene of the defeat of 5,000 English, under Sir Ralph Evers and Sir Brian Latoun, by a Scottish force under the Earl of Angus and Scott of Buccleuch.
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Fourth king of Rome, reigned twenty-four years, в. c. 640-616, and is said to have been the son of Numa's daughter. He took many Latin towns, transported the inhabitants to Rome, and gave them the Aventine to dwell on: these conquered Latins formed the original Plebs. He was succeeded by Tarquinius Priscus .
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HANS CHRISTIAN (än'der-sen), a Danish poet and story writer, born at Odense, April 2, 1805. Having lost his father early in childhood, the boy received his elementary education in a charity school. He traveled in Germany (1828), and made tours in France, Italy, and the East. His impres- HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN sions of Italy are embodied in "The Improvisatore" (1835). In the same year appeared "O. T.," a novel of life and nature in the North. "Only a Fiddler" (1837) and "The Poet's Bazar" (1842) followed. He is seen at his very best in "The Picture Book Without Pictures." Among his dramatic compositions are "The Mulatto," "The Flowers of Happiness," "Raphaella," "Ahas "Ahasuerus," and "The Two Baronesses." In In the English speaking world Andersen's great fame will ever rest upon his stories for children, the celebrated "Wonder Tales." He died Aug. 4, 1875.
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Hans Christian (1805-1875), a Danish writer. He is known as a poet and a novelist of no mean ability, but his fame rests on the volumes of fairy tales , which, like Dickens' Christmas stories , appeared from year to year in the holiday season. His stories of fir trees, storks, fairies, swans, witches, princes and princesses, soldiers, nightingales, flowers, and Christmas trees, gathered from the peasantry and dressed in the simplest language, are the delight of young readers in all lands. Andersen's old age was passed peacefully in Copenhagen, but his childhood was far from pleasant. He learned to read and write in a charity school. At the age of nine he went to work in a factory to earn something for the assistance of his widowed mother. He was an eager reader of the national ballads and popular poetry. In time he attracted the attention of a gentleman in public position, who placed him in a government school. From this he made his way through the university. Later in life he received a royal pension, which gave him an opportunity to travel in Italy and elsewhere. His writings include, besides the Fairy Tales, Picture-books without Pictures, Only a Fiddler, A Poet's Bazaar, My Life's Romance, The Ice Maiden, and Tales from Jutland.
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a village in Georgia, noted as having been the seat of a Confederate States military prison, which was notorious for unhealthfulness and for barbarity of discipline. Between Feb. 15, 1864, and April, 1865, 49,485 prisoners were received, of whom 12,926 died in that time of various diseases. Henry Wirz, the superintendent, was tried for injuring the health and destroying the lives of the soldiers confined here, was found guilty, and hanged, Nov. 10, 1865. The long trenches where the soldiers were buried have since been laid out as a cemetery.
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a Confederate States military prison for captured Federal soldiers during the Civil War. It was located at Andersonville, Georgia. The prison was notorious for unhealthfulness and the severity of discipline maintained. From February 15, 1864, to April, 1865, prisoners were received to the number of 49,485. Of these, 12,926 died from various diseases. The prisoners were confined in a space of about ten acres, without shelter from the sun, and with insufficient food and polluted water. The Confederates were short of money, clothing, food, and medicine for their own sick, not to say short of supplies for their men in the field. No one at this date desires to say aught against the kindness and hospitality of the South, but the management of Andersonville was execrable. Food was scarce, but there was no excuse for allowing men to perish of exposure and thirst in sight of wood and water. The real difficulty lay in the fact that the prison was officered by men of the overseer type-men lacking in ability and humanity. The prisoners were neglected in sickness, and were subjected to inhuman treatment. After the close of the war Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the prison, was tried for cruelty and mismanagement. He was found guilty, and was executed November 10, 1865. The trenches where the Union dead were buried have since been laid out as a national cemetery. See Civil War
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a group of volcanic rocks, gray, reddish or dark brown in color. The ground-mass of these rocks is usually composed of feldspar-microlith, scattered through which are abundant crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Hornblende and augite, one or both, are generally present, together with magnetite, which is often very abundant. Andesite occurs chiefly in Tertiary and more recent strata, and is found in Hungary, Transylvania, Siebengebirge, Santorin, Iceland, the Andes, the western part of the United States, etc. genus of leguminous
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a American trees, with fleshy plum-like fruits. The wood is well fitted for building. The bark of andira inermis, or cabbage-tree, is narcotic and is used as an anthelminthic under the name of worm bark or cabbage bark. The powdered bark of andira araroba is used as a remedy in certain skin diseases, as herpes.
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an iron bar supported on three feet. A pair of andirons stood in every old-fashioned fireplace or open hearth to hold the burning logs of wood. The outer ends of the bars were turned upward to prevent the wood from rolling outward. Ordinarily they were plain iron bars shaped by the village blacksmith, but they were fashioned, not infrequently, with artistic care, the upright ends terminating in knobs, sheathed in brass or silver. Irving speaks of the care which the good Dutch housewives bestowed on the knobs of their andirons to keep them polished. See Heating And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.--Whittier, Snowbound.
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