Anglican Church
THE, means collectively that group of autonomous churches which are in communion with, or have sprung from, the mother Church of England. They are the following: The Church of Ireland , the Episcopal Church of Scotland , the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, the Church of Canada, the Church of Australia , the Indian Church, and the Church of South Africa, which are all autonomous bodies under the jurisdiction of their own metropolitans, and not amenable to the ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England, though they all look to the Archbishop of Canterbury as patriarch . In addition to these autonomous churches in connection with the Anglican communion, there are 12 missionary bishops, representing the English Church in various remote regions of Asia, Africa, and America; and three or four representing the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH; RE See FORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
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Anglieri
A Sicilian younger brother of the seventeenth century, who is known by a work of which he published two volumes and promised twenty-four, and which was entitled Magic Light , or, the origin, order, and government of all things celestial, terrestial, and infernal, etc. Mongitore mentions it in his Sicilian Library.
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Anglin
MARGARET FRANCES MARY, an actress born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1876. She was educated in a conof Dramatic Acting in New York. She vent and studied at the Empire School first appeared on the stage in 1894. Afterward she was leading lady with many well-known actors, including E. H. Sothern, Richard Mansfield, and Henry Miller, and became one of the best-liked actresses on the American stage. She visited Australia and other foreign countries. Among the most important plays in which she appeared were "Cyrano de Bergerac," "The Only Way," "The Great Divide," "Taming of the Shrew," "Twelfth Night," and revivals of several Greek tragedies. with a hook, or angle (Anglo-Saxon
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Angora Cat
the large and longhaired white variety of the common cat, said to belong originally to Angora. It has a superb coat of long silky hair and a long bushy tail.
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Angora Goat
a variety of the common goat with long, silky hair. There are two or three varieties of the breed. The animal's coat is composed of two sorts of material-one hairy, short, and close to the skin; the other longer and woolly, farther from the skin. The lat ter is the most plentiful and most valuable. Of this goat's hair, often called camel's wool, camlets are extensively manufactured here. The Angora goat is bred for his hair, called Mohair in the United States and in Cape Colony, and has also been introduced into Australia.
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Angostura
or CIUDAD BOLIVAR, city and capital of the state of Bolivar, Venezuela; on the Orinoco river; 263 miles S. E. of Caracas. It has considerable export trade in cotton, indigo, coffee, tobacco, cattle, etc. Pop. about 20,000.
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Angra
the capital of the Azores, a seaport at the head of a deep bay on the S. coast of the island of Terceira. It is a station for ships between Portugal and Brazil and the East Indies. It is the seat of the governor-general and of a bishop; has fine churches, and is strongly fortified. Pop. about 12,000. There There is a considerable export of wine, cheese, honey, and flax. ANGRA-PEQUEÑA (än'grä-pe-kā' na), a bay on the S. W. coast of Africa. It gives name to the southern littoral of Great Namaqualand, extending 200 miles from 26° S. lat. to the Orange river, or Cape Colony, and reaching 90 miles inland. In 1883 Angra-Pequeña was ceded by a Namaqua chieftain to Lüderitz, a Bremen merchant; and next year it was taken under German protection, with all the coast to the N. as far as Cape Frio, except Walfisch Bay, which belongs to England. It formed the beginning of what later became German Southwest Africa. The Germans called it Lüderitz Bay and the surrounding country Lüderitzland. Together with the rest of German Southwest Africa the Union of South Africa, Africa, by the decision of the Peace Conference of May 7, 1919, assumed a mandate over this former German possession. During the World War it had been one of the landing points for the forces sent from the Union of South Africa to invade German Southwest Africa.
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Angular Gearing
Toothed wheels of irregular outline, used in transmitting variable motion, as shown in Fig. 7.
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Angular Velocity
The angle through which an arm turning on its axis is displaced in a unit of time. It is entirely independent of the length of this arm. The approximate ratio of the angular velocities of the balance with the cylinder and (pocket) chronometer escapements in the same unit of time (one-fifth second when there are 18,000 vibrations per hour), is about 270 deg.: 360 deg. The velocity, properly so called, is the space transversed in a unit of time by the point under consideration (which in this case is taken on the circumference of gyration). For a given angular movement we obtain the aproximate ratio of the velocities by multiplying each radius by the number of vibrations in a unit of time.--Saunier.
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Angurvadel
The sword, possessing magical properties, which was inherited by Frithjof, the hero of an Icelandic saga. It had a golden hilt, and shone like the Northern Lights. In times of peace certain characters on its blade were dull and pale; but during a battle they became red, like fire.
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Anhalt
a former duchy of north Germany, almost surrounded by Prussia; area 888 square miles. All sorts of grain, wheat especially, are grown in abundance; also, flax, rape, potatoes, tobacco, hops, and fruit. The inhabitants are principally occupied in agriculture, though there are some iron works and manufactures of woolens, linens, beetsugar, tobacco, etc. The former Dukes of Anhalt trace their origin to Bernard (1170-1212), son of Albert the Bear. In common with the other German states, Anhalt, in November, 1918, was declared a republic. Pop. about 350,000. The chief towns are Dessau (pop. about 60,000), Bernburg (pop. about 35,000), Köthen, and Zerbst.
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Anhinga
an aquatic bird allied to the cormorant. From its long snaky head and neck, it is called the snakebird. It is also called a water-turkey. Length, thirty-four inches. Plumage, glossy black, with silvery markings. It is found in the Gulf States and in the Orinoco region. It flies, perches, and dives, but seldom swims. Its favorite perch is a dried limb overhanging a river or bayou. On the approach of a strolling hunter or boatman, it drops into the water, feet first, head and neck erect. After a time it rises to the surface, exposing only its long, sharp bill and a wary eye. It lives on fish, which it pursues under water with speed. In pursuit the neck is curved backward, but on nearing its prey, the head darts forward with a stroke like that of a dagger. The bird then rises to the surface, tosses the fish into the air, catches it head first, and that is the end of the fish. The anhinga lays two to four eggs in a nest of sticks lined with moss, in a bush over-hanging the water.
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