Ankobar
the former capital of the kingdom of Shoa, in Abyssinia; is built 8,200 feet above sea-level. Pop. 2,000.
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Single-source entries: A (51)
Each of these 11 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.
Ann
ST., a name applied to a number of places in various parts of the world. The best known and most worthy of notice are (1) St. Ann Shoals, off the S. part of the coast of Sierra Leone, extending from Cape Shilling to Sherboro Island, a distance of between 30 and 40 miles. (2) St. Ann (Cape), the extreme N. W. point of Sherboro Island, coast of Sierra Leone; lat. 7° 34′ N.; long., 12° 57' W.; having close by a group of islands called Turtle Islands. (3) St. Ann's, a town, river, and bay, Jamaica, on the N. coast; the latter in lat. 18° 20' N.; long. 77° 13' W. (4) A cape or headland on the N. W. coast of Africa, about 35 miles S. S. E. of South Cape Blanco, near Arguin, and within the bank of that name: lat. 20° 30′ N.; long. 17° 0' W. (5) A lake, Upper Canada, 20 miles long, and 20 broad, about 45 miles N. of Lake Superior, with which it has communication by the Nipigon river. (6) A harbor on the E. side of Cape Breton, British America; lat. 46° 21′ N.; long. 60° 27' W.
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Anna
Daughter of Belus and sister of Dido . After the death of the latter, she fled from Carthage to Italy, where she was kindly received by Aeneas . Here she excited the jealousy of Lavinia, and, being warned in a dream by Dido, she fled and threw herself into the river Numicius.
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Anna Comnena
daughter of Alexius Comnenus I., Byzantine emperor. She was born in 1083, and died in 1148. After her father's death she endeavored to secure the succession to her husband, Nicephorus Briennius, but was baffled by his want of energy and ambition. She wrote (in Greek) a life of her father, Alexius, which, in the midst of much fulsome panegyric, contains some valuable and interesting information.
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Anna Ivanovna
Empress of Russia, born in 1693; the daughter of Ivan, the elder half-brother of Peter the Great. She was married in 1710 to the Duke of Courland, in the following year was left a widow, and, in 1730 ascended the throne of the Czars on the condition, proposed by the Senate, that she would limit the absolute power of the czars, and do nothing without the advice of the Council. This promise she did not keep. She chose as her favorite, Ernest John von Biren of Biron, who was soon all-powerful in Russia. Leading nobles were executed and thousands of men were sent to Siberia. In 1737 Anna forced the Courlanders to choose Biren as their duke, and nominated him at her death Regent of the Empire during the minority of her grand-nephew, Prince Ivan of Brunswick. Anna died in 1740. ANNAM. See ANAM.
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Anna Karenina
an'na ka-ra'ne-na, the heroine of a novel of the same name by Tolstoi, published in 1877. It is considered by many as his representative work. See Tolstoi
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Annato
or ARNOTTO, an orangered coloring matter, obtained from the pulp surrounding the seeds of bixa orellana, a shrub native to tropical America, and cultivated in Guiana, St. Domingo, and the East Indies. dies. It is sometimes used as a dye for silk and cotton goods , but it is much used in medicine for ting ing plasters and ointments, and to a considerable extent by farmers for giving a rich color to cheese. ANNE BOLEYN. See BOLEYN, ANNE,
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Anne of Austria
daughter of Philip III. of Spain, was born at Madrid in 1602, and in 1615 was married to Louis XIII. of France. Richelieu, fearing the influence of her foreign connections, did everything he could to humble her. In 1643 her hu husband died, and she was left regent, but placed under the control of a council. The parliament intrusted her with full sovereign rights during the minority of her son, Louis XIV. She incurred the hatred of the nobles by her boundless confidence in Cardinal Mazarin, and was forced to flee from Paris during the wars of the Fronde. She ultimately quelled all opposition, and was able, in 1661, to transmit to her son, unimpaired, the royal authority. She died in 1666 .
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Anneberg
A demon of the mines, known principally in Germany . On one occasion he killed with his breath twelve miners who were working in a silver mine of which he had charge. He is a wicked and terrible demon, represented under the figure of a horse, with an immense neck and frightful eyes.
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Annelida
a class of animals belong. ing to the sub-kingdom articulata, the annulosa of some naturalists. They are sometimes called red-blooded worms, being the only invertebrated animals possessing this character. They are softbodied animals, mostly living in the water, sometimes in moist earth, ea but never parasitically within the bodies of other animals; the higher ones possessing limbs, though of a rudimentary character, which makes them resemble centipedes ; while the lower ones, like the leeches, are wholly destitute of these appendages. The respiration is effected by external branchiæ, by internal vesicles, or by the skin itself. Contractile vessels supply the place of a heart. The nervous system consists of a single or double ventral cord, furnished with ganglia at intervals, and surrounding the œsophagus above.
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Annexation
the term applied to the acquisition by a country of territory which was formerly independent or was possessed by another country. The term is applied more properly to the acquisition of adjoining territory, but has come to be used in a broader sense, and is now applied to any territory added to an existing state. Among the most notable annexations are those of Alsace- Lorraine to Germany in 1870; of California to the United States , as a result of the Mexican War ; of the South African states as a result of the Boer War; and the changes of territory resulting from the defeat of Germany in the World War. The inhabitants of annexed territory are absolved from allegiance to their former sovereign. Titles to property are not affected, except in the substitution of the new sovereign for the old. Annexation is brought about by treaty, by proclamation, or by legislative act. It may be made complete in spite of the active or passive opposition of the inhabitants of the territory affected.
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