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Son of Herod the Great, was appointed by his father as his successor, and received from Augustus Judaea, Samaria, and Idumaea, with the title of ethnarch. In consequence of his tyrannical government Augustus banished him in A. D. 7 to Vienna in Gaul, where he died.
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a king of Macedon, natural son and successor of Perdiccas II. He was a liberal patron of literature and the arts, and greatly favored, among others, Euripides and Zeuxis. He died about 398 b. c.
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son of Herod the Great. His reign is described as most tyrannical and bloody. The people at length accused him before Augustus. The Emperor banished him to Vienne, in Gaul. To avoid the fury of this monster, 7 A. D., Joseph and Mary retired to Nazareth.
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the son of Apollonius, a sculptor. He was a native of Ionia. He executed in marble the apotheosis of Homer, which was found, in 1568, at a place called Fratocchia, belonging to the House of Colonna.
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the science which makes us acquainted with the antiquities of nations that have lived and died, and the remains of various kinds which throw a light upon the history of those now existing. The archæologist seeks to study and preserve any materials which tend to elucidate the objects already mentioned, and these materials naturally resolve themselves into three great divisions, each susceptible of further subdivision. The first class may be considered to consist of all records, written or printed, legal documents, nts, old chronicles, diaries of a public or private nature, state papers, letters, etc. The second may be termed oral, or traditional, in contradistinction to the first, which may be broadly called written archæology, and consists of the ballads, legends, and folk-lore of a people, their sports, superstitions, and the rise and origin of local customs, proverbs, and expressions. The third, termed monumental archæology, consists of works of art, paintings, sculpture, coins, medals, pottery, glass s, wooden and , metal utensils, tools of all descriptions, armor, weapons, carriages, boats, roads, canals, walls, encampments, burialgrounds, earthen mounds for purposes of defense or sepulture, and even human and animal remains. government of
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WILLIAM, a Scottish critic, born at Perth, Sept. Sept. 23, 1856. He graduated at Edinburgh University, 1876, and was called to the bar, 1883. He was for a long time dramatic critic for various London papers, and published books on the drama, including "English Dramatists of To-day" (1882); "Masks or Faces: a Study in the Psychology of Acting" (1888); "Henry Irving," a critical study (1883); "William Charles Macready, a Biography" (1890); "Through Afro-America" (1910); "Play Making" (1912); "The Correct Analysis (1913); etc. He was the English translator of Ibsen's dramas.
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the toxotes aculator, which shoots water at its prey. It is found in the East Indian and Polynesian Seas.
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A. Licinius Archias, a Greek poet, born at Antioch in Syria, about B. C. 120, came to Rome in 102, and was received in the most friendly way by the Luculli, from whom he obtained the gentile name of Licinius. He was enrolled as a citizen at Heraclea in Lucania ; and as this town was united with Rome by a foedus, he subsequently obtained the Roman franchise in accordance with the lex Plautia Papiria passed in B. C. 89. In 6I he was accused of assuming the citizenship illegally. He was defended by his friend M. Cicero in the extant speech Pro Archia, in which the orator, after briefly discussing the legal points of the case, rests the defense of his client upon his merits as a poet, which entitled him to the Roman citizenship. 2026 Editor's Note: The name Archias refers to several historical figures beyond the poet defended by Cicero. Notable examples include Archias of Corinth , an 8th-century BC aristocrat who founded the city of Syracuse, and the Macedonian officer Archias of Pella , who explored the islands of Failaka and Tylos. (Ed: BR 2026-07-16)
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fifth Earl, attached himself to the party of Mary of Guise, and was the means of averting a collision between the Reformers and the French troops in 1559; died 1575. ARCHIBALD, eighth Earl and Marquis, born 1598; a zealous partisan of the Covenanters. It was by his persuasion that Charles II. visited Scotland, and was crowned at Scone in 1651. At the Restoration he was committed to the Tower, and beheaded in 1661.
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ninth Earl, son of the preceding, served the King with great bravery at the battle of Dunbar, and was excluded from the general pardon by Cromwell in 1654. On the passing of the Test Act in 1681 he refused to take the required oath. For this he was tried and sentenced to death. He, however, escaped to Holland, from whence he returned with a view of aiding the Duke of Monmouth. His plan, however, failed, and he was taken and conveyed to Edinburgh, where he was beheaded in 1685.
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ARGOL, ORCHILL, or ORCHAL, two species of lichen, the rocella tinctoria and R. fusiformis, which grow in the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. They are found on rocks near the sea. They produce a fine but fugitive purple dye, and are largely employed for that purpose. Other lichens, such as the variolaria arcina, the lecanora tartarea, etc., are sometimes used in place of the rocella.
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A famous geometrician of Syracuse who invented a machine of glass that represented the motion of the heavenly bodies. When Marcellus , the Roman consul, besieged Syracuse, Archimedes constructed machines which suddenly raised into the air the ships of the enemy, which then fell into the sea and were sunk. He also set fire to the ships with burning-glasses. When the enemy were in possession of the town, a soldier, not knowing who he was, killed him, B. C. 212. Arctos (The Bear). Two constellations near the North Pole . - (1) The Great Bear (Ursa Major), also called the Wagon (plaustrum). The ancient Italian name of this constellation was Septem Triones, that is, the Seven Plowing Oxen, also Septentrio, and with the epithet Major to distinguish it from the Septentrio Minor, or Lesser Bear.- (2) The Lesser or Little Bear (Ursa Minor), likewise called the Wagon, and Cynosura (dog's tail) from the resemblance of the constellation to the upturned curl of a dog's tail. 2026 Editor's Note: Archimedes is traditionally credited with inventing the Archimedes' screw , a hydraulic machine still used today in wastewater treatment and for generating hydroelectric power. Beyond his defensive war machines, he anticipated modern calculus by using the method of exhaustion to derive the area of a circle and the volume of a sphere. His tomb was reportedly marked by a sphere and a cylinder, representing what he considered his most significant mathematical discovery. (Ed: BR 2026-07-17)
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