Each of these 16 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.
an Irish novelist, born in Dublin in 1825. She was a prolific and popular novelist. Her books include "The Wooing O't" (1873); "Ralph Wilton's Weird" (1875); "Her Dearest Foe" (1876); "The Freres" (1882); "A Golden Autumn" (1897); "A Winning Hazard" (1897). She died in 1902.
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a city of Calhoun co. in Alabama, on the Louisville and Nashville, and the Southern railroads; about 60 miles E. by N. of Birmingham. It is in one of the most important coal and iron mining regions of the country; is a trade center for cotton and agricultural products; and is noted for its manufactures of iron and steel , cotton goods, bricks, cordage, and other articles . Anniston is the seat of Alabama Presbyterian College and Barber Memorial Seminary and the Noble Female Institute; is a popular summer and winter resort; and has National banks and daily and weekly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 12,794; (1920) 17,734.
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A learned ecclesiastic, born at Viterbo in 1432, who, either deceived himself, or a deceiver of others, published a collection of manuscripts full of fables and absurdities, falsely attributed to Berosus, Fabius Victor, Cato, Manettio and others, and known under the name of The Antiquities of Annius. He was also responsible for a treatise on The Empire of the Turks, and a book on the Future Triumphs of the Christians over the Turks and the Saracens, etc. These two works are explanations of the Apocalypse. The author claims that Mahomet is the Antichrist , and that the end of the world will take place when the Christians will have overcome the Jews and the Mohammedans, which event did not appear to him to be far distant.
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A. D., the year of Our Lord, of grace, of the incarnation, of the circumcision, and of the Saviour's crucifixion. The Christian era began Jan. 1, in the middle of the fourth year of the 194th Olympiad, the 753d year of the building of Rome, and in 4714 of the Julian period. This era was invented by a monk, Dionysius Exiguus, about 532. It was introduced into Italy in the 6th century, and ordered to be used by bishops by the Council of Chelsea in 816, but was not generally employed for several centuries. Charles III. of Germany was the first who added "in the year of our Lord" to his reign, in 879.
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a town in southern France, department of Ardèche, 37 miles S. S. W. of Lyons, in a picturesque situation. It is the most important town of Ardèche, manufacturing paper and glove leather to a large extent, also cloth, felt, silk stuffs, gloves, hosiery, etc. There is an obelisk in memory of Joseph Montgolfier of balloon fame, a native of the town. Pop. about 17,500.
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or Arnatto, a coloring material. It is obtained from the pulp of the berries of the arnatto. The latter is a small tree growing in tropical America. The West Indies are the chief source of supply. The Indians rub annotto on their bodies as a defense against mosquitoes. Annotto is brought to market in brown cakes. It is the accepted coloring used by dairymen to give butter and cheese a rich yellow, palatable appearance. Annotto is used as a dye for silks, woolens, and cotton goods. It may be employed to deepen the yellow of lacquer and varnishes. It is a remedy, it is claimed, in case of fever.
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A gear wheel in which the teeth are on the inside of an annulus or ring, while its pinion works within its pitch circle, turning in the same direction.
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in Huxley's classification, one of the eight primary groups into which he divides the animal kingdom. He places it between the annulosa and the infusoria. He includes under it (1) the trematoda, or flukes; (2) the tæniada, or tape-worms and bladderworms; (3) the tu the turbellaria; (4) the acanthocephala; (5) the nematoidea, or and (6) the rotifera, or wheel animalcules. thread-worms;
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a sub-kingdom of the animal kingdom, corresponding to Cuvier's articulata. Annulosa, signifying ringed, is decidedly better, for the animals ranked under this sub-kingdom have their skeleton, which is external, composed of a series of rings. They are divided into chaetognatha, annelida, crustacea, arachnida, myriapoda, and insecta. The last four are further grouped together under the designation arthropoda.
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the declaration of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary irforming her that she was to become the mother of our Lord. Annunciation or Lady Day is celebrated on the 25th of March. The Italian order of Knights of the Annunciation, now the highest Italian order, was instituted by Amadeus VI., Duke of Savoy, in 1360. The king is always Grand Master. The decoration of the Order consists of a golden shield suspended to a chain or collar of roses and knots, the letters F. E. R. T. being inscribed on the roses, and standing for fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit (its bravery held Rhodes). There are two orders of nuns of the Annunciation, French and Italian.
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GABRIELE D'. See D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE.
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a sub-genus of ruminating animals. The typical species is the A. depressicornis, a quadruped resembling a small buffalo, found gregarious in the mountains of the island of Celebes.
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a genus of beetles belonging to the family Ptinide. It contains the well known death watch insects, A. striatum, A. tesselatum, etc.
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a medicine which alleviates pain, though, if given in too large doses, it induces stupor. Opium is soporific and anodyne; while belladonna is anodyne and anti-spasmodic.
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a genus of rodent animals inhabitating the W. coast of Africa, resembling the flying-squirrels, but having the under surface of the tail "furnished for some distance from the roots with a series of large horny scales, which, when pressed against the trunk of a tree, may subserve the same purpose as those instruments with which a man climbs up a telegraph pole to set the wires."
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a sub-order of decapod crustaceans, intermediate between macrura and brachyura, differing from the former in the absence of an abdominal fan-shaped fin, as also of natatory feet; and from the latter in ger generally possessing appendages attached to the penultimate segment segment of their abdomen. The sub-order is divided into the families paguridæ, hippidæ, raninidæ, homolidæ, and dromiidæ. Its best known representatives are the hermit crabs (paguridæ.
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