Angelico
FRA, the commonest designation of the great friar-painter. Born in 1387 at Vicchio, in the Tuscan province of Mugello, in 1407 he entered the Dominican monastery at Fiesole, in 1436 he was tranferred to Florence, and in 1445 was summoned by the Pope to Rome, where he chiefly resided till his death in 1455. His frescoes are all in Italy-at Cortona, at Fiesole, in the Florentine convent of San Marco, at Orvieto, and in the Vatican chapel of Nicholas V. Of his easel pictures, the Louvre possesses a splendid example, "The Coronation of the Virgin," and the London National Gallery (since 1860) a "Glory," or Christ with 265 saints.
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Angell, George Thorndyke
George Thorndyke (1823-1909), a noted friend of dumb animals. He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He died in Boston. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. He was educated as a lawyer, but gave his life to the prevention of cruelty to animals. He founded the American Humane Educational Society and distributed leaflets by the million. In 1866 he established the periodical known as Our Dumb Animals. He gave wide currency to Black Beauty , Anna Sewall's famous plea for kindliness to horses. He traveled widely, and was instrumental in forming over 70,000 juvenile Bands of Mercy. Mr. Angell was a zealous reformer, but he was also a man of force, character, and sincerity. His work amounted to something. His funeral was a striking one. In the long procession that moved from Copley Square to Mount Auburn were thirty splendid work horses with shining coats and polished hoofs. They wore nothing but bridles, to which were fastened black rosettes. The ring of their shoes on the asphalt pavement was a fitting requiem for their lifelong friend. See Bergh ; Black Beauty
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Angelus
in the Roman Catholic Church, a short form of prayer in honor of the incarnation, consisting mainly of versicles and responses, the angelic salutation three times repeated, and a collect, so named from the word with which it commences, Angelus Domini (Angel of the Lord). Hence, also, the bell tolled in the morning, at noon, and in the evening to indicate the time when the angelus is to be recited. ÅNGERMAN-ELF, the most beautiful river in Sweden, flows S. E. through Westerbotten and West Norrland into the Gulf of Bothnia at Hernösand; navigable from Sollefteå downward (about 65 miles).
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Angers
a town and riverport of France, capital of the Department of Maine-et-Loire, and formerly of the province of Anjou, on the banks of the Maine, 150 miles S. W. of Paris. Has an old castle, now used as a prison, a fine cathedral of the 12th and 13th centuries, with very fine old painted windows; is the seat of a bishop, and has a school of arts and manufactures, the resch mains of a hospital founded by Henry II. of England in 1155, etc.; manufactures sail cloth, hosiery, leather, and chemicals, foundries, etc. In the neighborhood immense slate quarries. are Pop. about 85,000.
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Angilbert
ST. (äng-el-bār'), the most celebrated poet of his age, secretary and friend of Charlemagne, whose daughter, Bertha, he married. In the latter part of his life he retired to a monastery of which he became abbot. Died in 814.
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Angina Pectoris
the name first given by Dr. Heberden in 1768, and since then universally adopted as the designation of a very painful disease, called by him also a disorder of the breast; by some others, spasm of the chest, or heart stroke, and popularly breast pang. It is characterized by intense pain in the præcordial region, attended by a feeling of suffocation and a fearful sense of impending death. These symptoms may continue for a few minutes, half an hour, or even an hour or more. During the paroxysm the pulse is low, with the body cold, and often covered with clammy perspiration. There are several varieties of it: an organic and functional form; and again a pure or idiopathic and a complex or sympathetic one have been recognized. Angina is produced by disease of the heart.
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Angiosperm
a term for any plant which has its seeds inclosed in a seed vessel. Exogens are divided into those whose seeds are inclosed in a seed vessel, and those with seeds produced and ripened without the production of a seed vessel. The former are angiosperms, and constitute the principal part of the species, the latter are gymnosperms, and chiefly consist of the coniferæ and cycadeceæ.
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Angler Fish
a fish called also sea devil, frog, or frog fish; and in Scotland, wide-gab, signifying wide mouth. It is the lophius piscatorius of Linnæus. It has an enormous head, on which are ANGLER FISH placed two elongated appendages, or filaments. These, being movable, are maneuvered as if they were bait; and when small fishes approach to examine them, the angler, hidden amid mud and sand, seizes them at once; hence its name. It occurs along the British coasts, and is three, or, occasionally, five, feet long.
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Angles
a Low German tribe, who, in the earliest historical period, had their seats in the district about Angeln, in the Duchy of Schleswig, and who in the 5th century and subsequently crossed over to Britain along with bands of Saxons and Jutes (and probably Frisians also), and colonized a great part of what from them has received the name of England, as well as a portion of the lowlands of Scotland. The Angles formed the largest body among the Germanic settlers in Britain, and founded the three kingdoms of East Anglia , Mercia, and Northumbria.
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Anglia
EAST, a kingdom founded by the ANGLES (q. v.) about the middle of the 6th century, in the eastern part of central En England, in what forms the present counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. At first to some extent dependent on Kent, and afterward on Mercia, on the fall of the latter it was attached to Wessex, without, however, losing its own kings until the time of the Danish invasion, when it was seized by the invaders and formed into a Danish kingdom under Guthrum (878). Edward, the son and successor of Alfred, after a long strug gle, forced the Danes to acknowledge him in 921. Under him Wessex grew to be England, and East Anglia was henceforward part and parcel of the kingdom. It was one of the four great earldoms of the kingdom under Canute.
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