Each of these 13 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.
(probably the Latin Ara Jovis), a town of Spain, on the left bank of the Tagus, 30 miles S. S. E. of Madrid by rail, in a beautifully wooded valley. The palace was long a favorite spring resort of the royal family. The famous gardens were laid out by Philip II. At Aranjuez was concluded a treaty between France and Spain in 1772, and it was also the scene of the abdication of Charles IV. in 1808. Pop. about 15,000.
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JÁNOS (or'ony), a Hungarian poet, born at Nagy-Szalonta, March 1, 1817. He was called to Budapest in 1860 as director of the Kisfaludy Society; founded the literary weekly "Kos- ARAPAIMA zori" ("The Wreath"); and in 1865 was appointed secretary of the Hungarian Academy, of which he had been a member since 1859. Owing to his feeble health he resigned in 1878. As a national poet he ranks immediately after Petöfi and Vörösmarty, his epical crcations deserving to be acknowledged as ornaments not only of Hungarian but of modern poetry in general. He is master of the ballad and a translator of highest merit, as proven by his versions of Tasso, Goethe, Shakespeare, and, above all, his translation of Aristophanes. He died in Budapest, Oct. 22, 1882.
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a genus of tropical fishes, including the largest know fresh water forms. They are found in the rivers of South America, and are sometimes taken in the Rio Negro, 15 feet in length, and 400 pounds in weight. They are shot with arrows or harpooned, and are highly esteemed as food; salted, they are conveyed in large quantities to Para. The genus arapaima belongs to the family osteoglossidæ, allied to the clupeidæ or herring, and is remarkable for the mosaic work of strong bony scales with which the body is covered. The head is also protected by bony armature. Osteoglossum and heterotis are closely related genera, found in various parts of the tropics.
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An angel who, according to the rabbis of the Talmud , takes charge of the waters of the earth. Fishermen invoke him so that they may take large fish.
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The verbum inenarrabile of the sages of the Alexandrian School, "which Hebrew Kabalists wrote Javeh, and interpreted by the sound Ararita, thus expressing the triplicity of the secondary kabalistic principle, the dualism of the means and the equal unity of the first and final principle, as well as the alliance between the triad and the tetrad in a word composed of four letters, which form seven by means of a triple and double repetiticn."
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a river of Armenia, rising S. of Erzerum at the foot of the Bingoldagh; it flows for some miles through Turkish territory N. E. to the new Russian frontier. Here it turns eastward to the Erivian plain N. of Ararat, whence it sweeps in a semi-circle mostly between the Russian and Persian territories round to its confluence with the Kur, 60 miles from its mouth in the Caspian; length, 500 miles.
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the country of the Araucos or Araucanian Indians, in the south of Chile. The Chilean province of Arauco, lying between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, and bounded on the N. by Concepcion, on the S. by Valdivia, formed in 1875, has an area of 2,189 square miles, and a population (1917) of 73,260. The Araucanians are interesting as furnishing the only example of Indian self-government in the presence of the European races. They are a fierce and warlike people, and have a kind of military aristocratic constitution. Formerly the government rested in the hands of four chiefs (Toquis), each nominated by one of the four divisions of the people, and one of whom was elected "great Toqui." They have no formal laws, but custom and tradition have all the force of these. They now number about 70,000. From the days of Pizarro and Almagro downward, Araucania has fought for its freedom-its wars of independence having lasted, with intervals of precarious truce, from 1537 to 1773. In 1861 a French adventurer, Tonneins by name, ingratiating himself with the Indians, was elected King of Araucania. He was soon at war with Chile, and was captured and allowed to go to France. Returning to Araucania, he kept up a struggle with the Chileans in 1869-1870, but repaired once more to France in 1871. In 1870 the Auracanians acknowledged the rule of Chile.
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a genus of plants belonging to the order pinaceæ (conifers) and to the family or section abietinæ. Five or six species are known; all from the Southern Hemisphere. The one so common in English gardens is A. imbricata, a native of the mountainous parts of southern Chile. Another species, A. excelsa, or Norfolk Island pine, is a splendid tree of giant size. All the genus are ornamental from their fine and unfading foliage.
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now ERBIL, or ARBIL, a small town of Assyria, E. from Mosul, famous as having given name to the battle in which Alexander finally defeated Darius, 331 b. c. The battle was really fought near Gaugamela (the "camel's house"), about 70 miles to the N. W. of Arbela.
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An axle or spindle on which a wheel turns. ARC. Any given part of the circumference of a circle, or other curve.
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A screw chuck on the end of which is a threaded arbor for the reception of saws, laps, etc., which are clamped in position firmly by means of a nut or thumb screw as shown in Fig. 66.
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that species of the electric light in which the illuminating source is the current of electricity passing between two sticks of carbon kept a short distance apart, one one of them being in connection with the positive, the other with the negative terminal of a battery or dynamo.
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a genus of conchiferous mollusks, the typical one of the family arcade. The shell is strongly ribbed, or cancellated, hinge straight, with very numerous transverse teeth. They are universally distributed, but are commonest in warm seas. They inhabit the zone from low water to 230 fathoms. Of the recent species. A. пoæ, A. tetragona, A. lactea, A. raridentata, and A. barbata occur in England. The fossil species are found in the United States, Europe, and southern India.
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