Amerongen Castle
the property of Count von Bentinck, Dutch nobleman, located in the village of the same name, 15 miles S. E. of Utrecht, near the frontier between Germany and Holland. It was the place to which the ex-Kaiser of Germany fled after his abdication. He left Spa on the night of Nov. 9, 1918, and reached Amerongen on the following day. There he remained until 1920, at which time he removed to an estate at Doorn near Utrecht, which he had purchased and furnished. Most of the time of the ex-royal fugitive was spent in cutting down trees on the Amerongen estate. He was joined there later by the by German ex-Empress.
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Ames
a city of Iowa, in Story co., 37 miles N. of Des Moines. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and is the seat of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The city has a library and is of considerable industrial importance. Pop. (1910) 4,223; (1920) 6,270.
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Ames
ADELBERT, an American military officer, born in 1835; graduated at West Point, 1861; became Brigadierbrevet Major-General General and United States Volunteers, in the Civil War; Provisional Governor of Mississippi, 1868; resigned army commission, 1870; United States Senator from Mississippi, 1870-1873, Governor 1874-1876; and Brigadier-General United States Volunteers in the war with Spain, 1898.
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Ames
MARY CLEMMER, an American author, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839. Among her works are the novels "Victoria" (1864); "Eirene" (1870), and "His Two Wives" (1874); a volume of "Poems" (1882); and biographies of Alice and Phoebe Cary. She died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 18, 1884.
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Ames
HERMAN VANDENBURG, an American educator, born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1865. He graduated from Amherst College in 1888 and took post-graduate courses in Columbia and Harvard Universities. After three years on the faculty of the University of Michigan, he studied at Leipsic and Heidelberg. In 1896 he became assistant professor of history in Ohio State University, and in the following year he was appointed instructor in American constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was appointed professor of American constitutional history in the same institution and in 1907 he became dean of the Graduate School. He gave lecture courses in other colleges and was a member of many important historical societies. Among his popular writings are "Outline of Lectures on American Political setts Legislature. He was elected presi- and Institutional History during the dent of Harvard College in 1804, but Colonial and Revolutionary Periods" M AMERONGEN CASTLE (1908); "Syllabus of American Colonial History" (1912), etc.
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Ames (FISHER an American orator)
FISHER, an American orator and statesman, born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758. Admitted to the bar in 1781, he became a member of Congress in 1789, where he gained a national reputation by his oratory. Two of his finest efforts were in support of John Jay's treaty with Great Britain and a eulogy on Washington before the Massachu- 2 declined. His work consists of or orations, essays, and letters (2 vols., 1854). He died in Dedham, July 4, 1808.
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Ames (WINTHROP an American)
WINTHROP, an American theatrical manager, born in Massachusetts in 1871. He graduated from Harvard University in 1895. After several years spent in editorial work and in magazine writing, he became manager of the Castle Square Theater in Boston in 1904. He was one of the chief movers in the plan to erect the New Theater in New York City and was its director from 1908 until the enterprise was abandoned in 1911. Afterward he was manager of several theaters in New York City and produced some of the most notable plays seen in recent years.
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Amesbury
a town in Essex co., Mass.; on the Merrimac river and the Boston and Maine railroad; 27 miles N. of Salem. It has manufactories of cotton and woolen goods, boots and shoes, machinery, car carriages, etc., and was long the residence of the poet Whittier. Pop. (1910) 9,894; (1920) 10,036.
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Ametabola
or AMETABOLIANS, a sub-class of insects, consisting of those which do not undergo metamorphosis. It includes three orders: the anoplura, or lice; the mallophaga, or bird-lice; and the thysanura, or spring-tails. All are wingless insects.
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Amherst
a town in Hampshire co., Mass.; on the Boston and Maine and the Central Vermont railroads; 23 miles N. N. E. of Springfield. It has manufactories of paper, straw and palm-leaf hats, leather, and children's wagons, and is best known as the seat of AMHERST COLLEGE (q. v.), the State Agricultural College, and the State Experiment Station. Pop. (1910) 5,112; (1920) 5,550.
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Amica
a lake of South America, in the province of Cumana, Venezuela, on a plateau between the Rupumung and Tocoto rivers. In the age of Queen Elizabeth, the vicinity of this lake was called the El Dorado, and near it was supposed to stand the wonderful imperial city of Manoa, forming the object of the expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh and his ill-fated followers, but which they failed to discover.
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Amicis
EDMONDO DE (ä-mēchēs), an Italian writer, born at Oneglia, in Liguria, Oct. 21, 1846. From 1865 till the occupation of Rome by the Italian army, he was in the military service of King Victor Emmanuel's Government; ens he returned to civil life at Turin, devoting himself wholly to literature. Among his writings the most noteworthy are "Army Life" (1869), and "Recollections of 1870-1871." Of novels "The College Friends," "A Great Day," "The Paternal Home" (1872), and "Cuore" (Hearts), published in English as "The Heart of a Schoolboy." His works of travel-including "Spain," "Recollections of London," "Holland," "Constantinople," "Recollections of Paris," and "Morocco"-have had a very wide circulation. He has published also a volume of "Verses." He died in 1908.
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Amiel
HENRI FREDERIC, a distinguished Swiss essayist, philosophical critic, and poet, born at Geneva, Sept. 27, 1821. He became Professor of Philosophy in the Geneva Academy. He is author of several works on the history of literature, as "The Literary Movement in Romanish Switzerland" (1849); "Study on Mme. de Staël" (1878); and of several poems. But his fame rests principally on the "Journal." He died in Geneva, March 11, 1881.
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Ammergau
OBERand UNTER-, two adjoining villages in Upper Bavaria, in the higher part of the valley of the Ammer, 42 miles S. W. by S. of Munich. Ober-Ammergau is noted for the performance of the "Passion Play," a series of dramatic representations of the sufferings of Christ. On the height near the theater is a colossal memorial of "Christ on the Cross, with Mary and John," modeled by Halbig, the gift of King Ludwig II. See PASSION PLAY.
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