Each of these 11 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.
a county in the west midland division of Scotland. It has an area of 3,232 square miles, of which over 600 are islands. It has an extensive coast line amounting to 2,300 miles. Sheep grazing is the principal industry. The land does not lend itself generally to agriculture. Mining and quarrying are carried on to some extent. The capital is Inverary. Other important towns are Campbelton, Oban, and Tarbert. Pop. about 70,000.
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The friend of Cyrus, commanded the left wing of the army at the battle of Cunaxa, B. C. 401. After the death of Cyrus he purchased his pardon from Artaxerxes by deserting the Greeks.
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in theology, the doctrines of Arius and his school. Arius was presbyter of the church of Alexandria in the fourth century. He was a unitarian, holding that Christ, the Son, was created by the Father and was subordinate to Him, though possessing a similar nature. The doctrine of Arius was condemned by the church at the Council of Nice , A. D. 325, which decreed that Christ was "of one substance with the Father." The views of Arius were disseminated by fugitive Arians, and became the national religion of the Goths, Vandals, Suevi, and Longobardi, but these churches were gradually received within the Catholic Church, and the Arians as a sect faded away. See Council Of Nice
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a seaport of Tacna, the most southerly department of Peru. It is one of the chief outlets of the trade of 30livia, and has been connected since 1854, by rail, with Tacna, 38 miles inland. Its exports mostly consist of copper, silver, cascarilla and other barks, chinchilla skins, alpaca, and vicuna wool. Arica has frequently suffered from earthquakes. It was almost wholly destroyed in 1832, but soon rebuilt. It suffered severely again in 1868, the earthquake being succeeded by fearful waves, one of them 40 feet high. In the time of the Spanish supremacy, Arica was a great commercial city with 30,000 inhabitants; its present population is about 5,000. It was stormed and taken by the Chileans in 1880. For details of the longstanding dispute between Chile and Peru for the possession of Arica and Tacna see CHILE and PERU. ARIÈGE (ar-yāzh), a mountainous department of France, on the slopes of the Pyrenees, comprising the ancient countship of Foix and parts of Languedoc and Gascony. The principal rivers are the Ariège, Arize, and Salat, tributaries of the Garonne. Sheep and cattle are reared; the arable land is small in quantity. Chief town, Foix. Area 1,890 square miles; pop. about 200,000.
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in astronomy, the constellation Aries, or the Ram, one of the ancient zodiacal constellations, and generally called the first sign of the zodiac; also the portion of the ecliptic between 0º and 30° longitude, which the sun enters on March 21st (the vernal equinox). The constellation Aries, from which the region derives its name, was once within its limits, but now, by the precession of the equinoxes, it has gradually moved into the space anciently assigned to Taurus. It is denoted by the Greek symbol, Gamma, which remotely resembles a ram's head. The first point of Aries is the spot in the heavens where the sun appears to stand at the vernal equinox. It is not marked by the presence of any star, but it is not very far from the third star of Pegasus, that called Algenib. It is the point from which the right ascensions of the heavenly bodies are reckoned upon the equator and their longitudes upon the ecliptic.
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Lucian relates that at Corinth, in the Cranaüs quarter, there was a certain house which no one would inhabit, because it was haunted by a spectre. A man named Arignote, well versed in the lore of the Egyptian magical books, shut himself in the house to pass the night and began to read peacefully in the court. Soon the spectre made its appearance, and in order to frighten Arignote, it first of all took the form of a dog, then that of a bull, and finally that of a lion. But Arignote was not at all disturbed. He conjured the spectre in formulæ which he found in his books, and obliged it to retire to a corner of the court, where it disappeared. On the following day the spot to which the spectre had retreated was dug up, and a skeleton was found. When it was properly buried, the ghost was not seen again. This anecdote is an adaptation of the adventure of Athenodorus, which Lucian had read in Pliny.
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or ARILLUS, in some plants, as in the nutmeg, an extra covering of the seed, outside of the true seed coats. It is either succulent or cartilaginous, colored, elastic, rough or knotted. In the nutmeg it is known as mace. (ar-e-ma-thē'a), ARIMATHEA a town of Palestine, identified with the modern Ramleh, 22 miles W. N. W. of Jerusalem.
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A people in the north of Scythia, represented as men with only one eye, who fought with the griffins for the possession of the gold in their neighborhood.
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Demon of vengeance, according to some demonologists. He is different from Alastor , and occupies himself only with vengeance in particular cases where he is employed for that purpose.
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Ancient diviners, whose special occupation was called ariolatio, because they divined by means of the altars. They consulted demons on their altars, says Dangis; they observed whether the altar trembled or performed any marvel, and predicted what the Devil inspired them with. According to François de la Tour Blanche, these people ought to have been put to death as idolators. He based his opinion on Deuteronomy, chap. xviii., and on Revelation, chap. xxi., where it is said that idolators and liars shall be cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, which will be their second death. Deuteronomy orders only the first.
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LUDOVICO (ä-rē-ōs'tō), an Italian poet, born at Reggio, Sept. 8, 1474. Was one of the three great epic poets of Italy, and styled "The Divine." He abandoned law for the study of the classics, and was introduced with diplomatic missions by Cardinal d'Este, and his brother, Duke of Ferrara. Ariosto's ARISTÆUS fame rests mainly on his great romantic heroic poem "Orlando Furioso." It is really a continuation of Bojardo's "Orfando Inamorato." Of his other poetical efforts the most noteworthy are his seven epistolary satires, conceived in the spirit of Horace, which contain sundry bits of autobiographical information and rank among the treasures of Italian literature. He died at Ferrara, June 6, 1533. of son (ar-is-tē'us), ARISTÆUS Apollo and Cyrene, was brought up by the Nymphs. The introduction of the use of bees is ascribed to him (hence he is called Mellisœus), and gained for him divine honors.
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