These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Anio, Anius, Anjou.
now ANIENE or TEVERONE, a river in Italy, a tributary which it enters above Rome, renowned of the Tiber, for the valley through where stand the remains of the villas of which it flows, Mæcenas and the Emperor Hadrian. Its famous waterfalls at Tivoli now furnish valuable electric energy which is transmitted to Rome.
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Son of Apollo by Creüsa, and priest of Apollo at Delos. By Dryope he had three daughters, to whom Dionysus gave the power of producing at will any quantity of wine, corn, and oil-whence they were called Oenotropae.
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an ancient province of France, now forming the department of Maine-et-Loire, re, and parts of parts of the departments of Indre-et-Loire, Mayenne, and Sarthe; area, about 3,000 square miles. In 1060 the province passed into the hands of the house of Gatinais, of which sprang Count Godfrey V., who, in 1127, married Matilda, daughter of Henry I. of England, and so became the ancestor of the Plantagenet kings. Anjou remained in the possession of the English kings up to 1204, when John lost it to the French King, Philip Augustus. In 1226 Louis VIII. bestowed the province on his brother Charles; but in 1328 it was reunited to the French crown. John I. raised it to the rank of a ducal peerage, and gave it to his son Louis. Henceforth it remained separate from the French crown till 1480, when it fell to Louis XI. The last Duke of Anjou was the grandson of Louis XIV., Philip V. of Spain.
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The Egyptian symbol of life, perhaps the life which remains to one after death. It is conjectured that it symbolises the union of the male and female principles, the origins of life, and that like the American cross, it typifies the four winds, the rain-bringers and fertilizers. It has been found manufactured in every description of material, and is sometimes encountered in combination with the dad or tat symbol (q.v.) It is usually carried in the right hand by divinities.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 2026 Editor's Note: Often voted the greatest novel ever written , Anna Karenina opens with one of literature's most quoted lines — 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way' — and has been filmed again and again, from Greta Garbo to Keira Knightley. (Ed: BR 2026-07-11)
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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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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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