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.
the father of Ayesha, wife of Mohammed, was a man of great influence in the Koreish tribe; and in 632, when Mohammed died, was made the first caliph or successor of the Prophet. After defeating his enemies in Arabia, and warring successfully against Babylonia, Syria, and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, Abu-Bekr died 634 A. D., aged 63. He was surnamed "The Just."
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the name of a sect of the Christian Church established in Abyssinia. The forms and ritual of the Abyssinian Church are a strange compound of paganism, Judaism, and Christianity. It is governed by a bishop, who is styled abuna.
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A herb used in the ceremony of exorcising a haunted house. It is signed with the sign of the cross, and hung up at the four corners of the house.
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A public garden or grove in the suburbs of Athens , about six stadia from the city, named, according to Pausanias , from Academus, who left it to the citizens for gymnastics. Here Plato opened his school of philosophy, and hence arose the Academic sect, and the name Academy has descended even to our own times.
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series of philosophers who taught in the Athenian Academy, the scene of Plato's discourses.
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THE ROYAL, Society of London. a British institution for the encouragement of painting, sculpture, and design-
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NATION- "Evangeline." AL, an American institution, in New York City, founded in 1826, conducting ACANTHACEÆ, an order of monoschools in various branches of the fine petalous exogens, with two stamina; or, arts, and holding semiannual exhibitions if there are four, then they are didynaat which prizes are awarded. The memmous. The ovary is two-celled, with bership consists of academicians, who hard, often hooked, placentæ, and has are the corporate body and use the title from one or two to many seeds. There N. A. (National Academicians), and are often large, leafy bracts. The acanthe associates, who use the title thaceæ are mostly tropical plants, many of them being Indian. They have both a resemblance and an affinity to the Scro-
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THE NArett Wendell, Gari Melchers, Elihu Root, TIONAL, an American institution, char- Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul tered by Congress in 1863, consisting of Shorey, Charles Platt, Maurice Francis 150 members, elected from among the most Egan, Archer Huntington. distinguished scientific men of the United S States; analogous to the Royal
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a silver sulphide classed BELLES LETTRES, an institution by Dana under his chalcocite group. founded at Paris by Colbert in 1663, un- Composition AgS. It has about 86.71 of der the name of Petite Académie. It was silver and 12.70 of sulphur. It is orcomposed originally of four members, thorhombic; the crystals are generally chosen by the ministry to belong to the Académie prisms with slender points. Française. In 1702 the Academy assumed its definitive form; 40
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a seaport in Mexico on the Pacific Ocean; has a large and nearly land-locked harbor, but the climate is unwholesome. It exports hides, cedar timber, and fruit. Nearly the whole city was destroyed by earthquakes in 1799, in 1837, and again in 1852. Pop. about 7,500.
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or AKARNANIA, a province of ancient Greece, forming the westernmost portion; named, according to tradition, from Acarnan, son of Alamæon, who settled the region. At the begin ning of the Peloponnesian war the inhabitants were rude and piratical, and they always remained behind the other Greeks in civilization. They were good slingers and faithful and courageous soldiers. Under the Romans it was a province of Macedonia. It is now, with Ætolia , a province of the Grecian kingdom. Pop. about 150,000; capital Missolonghi .
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Son of Pelias , king of Iolcus , one of the Argonauts and the Calydonian hunters. Acca Laurentia or Larentia. The wife of the shepherd Faustulus and the nurse of Romulus and Remus, after they had been taken from the she-wolf. She seems to be connected with the worship of the Lares, from which her name Larentia is probably derived.
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that stress or emphasis given by the voice to a certain syllable or syllables of a word, or to certain notes in a bar of music; also, the peculiar intonation of one spoken language when compared with another. The term further denotes marks used in printing or writing to show the position of the stress. There is a certain analogy between accent and emphasis , emphasis doing for whole words or clauses of sentences what accent does for single syllables. Marks sometimes called accents are used in mathematics, e. g., a' + b (read a prime plus b prime). Accent in music is the greater intensity given to certain notes, as distinguished from their length in time and their quality or timbre. In geometry and trigonometry a circle at the right of a figure indicates degrees, one mark, minutes, two marks, seconds of a degree, as 13° 4' 5". In mensuration and engineering, the mark denotes feet , inches, and lines, as 4' 6" 10"".
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a bill of exchange drawn on one who agrees absolutely or conditionally to pay it, according to the tenor of the document itself. To render it so valid that, if the drawee fail to liquidate it, the drawer may be charged with costs, the promise of the drawer must be in writing under or upon the back of the bill.
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in law, one who is not the chief actor in an offense nor present at its commission, but still is connected with it in some other way. Accessories may become so before the fact or after the fact. Sir Matthew Hale defines an accessory before the fact as one who, being absent at the time of the crime committed, does yet procure, counsel , or command another to commit a crime. If the procurer be present when the evil deed is being done, he is not an accessory, but a principal . An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, and assists the felon.
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an unforeseen occurrence, particularly if it be of a calamitous In logic: (a) Whatever does not really constitute an essential part of a person or thing; as the clothes one wears , the saddle on a horse, etc. (b) The qualities or attributes of a person or thing, as opposed to the substance. Thus bitterness, hardness, etc., are attributes, and not part of the substance in which they inhere . (c) That which may be absent from anything, leaving its essence still unimpaired. Accidents, in logic, are of two kinds, separable and inseparable. If walking be the accident of a particular man, it is a separable one, for he would not cease to be that man though he stood still; while on the contrary, if Spaniard is the accident connected with him, it is an inseparable one, since he never can cease to be, ethnologically considered, what he was born. In grammar, a property attached to a word which nevertheless does not enter into its essential definition.
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