Arkansas (UNIVERSITY OF ture has members)
UNIVERSITY OF ture has 35 members in the Senate and 100 in the House. There are 7 representatives in Congress. In politics the State is strongly Democratic. History. This portion of the original Territory of Louisiana, named after a tribe of Indians found there by the earliest explorers of record, was first settled by the French in 1670. It became a part of Louisiana Territory in 1803, of Missouri Territory in 1812; was organized as Arkansas Territory, with the present Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory in 1819; and was detached from Indian Territory and created a State in 1836. It was settled almost exclusively by people from the Southern States, and early became a battle ground in the Civil War. Following the seizure of Federal arsenals by the State authorities after the State had seceded, came the defeat of the Confederates in the battle at Pea Ridge, May 6-7, 1862, and in that of Prairie Grove, or Fayetteville, Dec. 7 following; the occupation by the Union forces of Helena; and the capture of Arkansas Post by a combined Union military and naval force, Jan. 11, 1863, and of Little Rock, Sept. 10, following. The State was under military control in 1864-1868 and adopted its present Constitution in 1874.
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Arkansas City
a city of Kansas, in Cowley co. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas Southwestern, the Midland Valley, and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads. The city has an Indian chool, a training college, a library, and other public ic buildings. A canal connectsch ing the Arkansas and Walnut rivers furnishes water power for manufacturing. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-raising community, and also has manufactures of lumber, carriages, and creamery products. Pop. (1910) 7,518; (1920) 11,253.
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Arkansas River
a tributary of the Mississippi, rising in central Colorado and flowing E. into Kansas. It then flows S. E. across Oklahoma and diagonally across Arkansas. It is about 2,000 miles long, and is navigable to Wichita, Kan., a distance of about 650 miles. ARKANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution organized in 1872, with academic and technical departments in Fayetteville, law and medical departments in Little Rock, and normal school for colored students in Pine Bluff; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 90; students, 720; president, John Clinton Farrell. island of Rügen, in the Baltic.
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Arkona
the N. E. promontory of the of this city. The Emperor Constantine embellished Arles, and his son Constantine II. was born here. In 855 it became the capital of the Arletan kingdom, which was, in 933, united to that of Burgundy. Pop. about 17,500.
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Arles
a city of France, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, on the Rhone, 44 miles W. N. W. of Marseilles. It is principally notable as having been an important town when Gaul was invaded by Cæsar. It afterward became a Roman colony, and was long a rich and prosperous city. The Roman amphitheater, capable of accommodating 30,000 spectators, yet remains noble in its ruins. The great obelisk, and innumerable artistic remains, attest the former magnificence
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Arlington
a town of Massachusetts in Middlesex co., on the Boston and Maine railroad. It is about 6 miles N. W. of Boston and is practically a suburb of that city. It has important manufactures of piano cases and machinery. Truck farming is also carried on extensively. The town has a public library, hospital, and other public buildings. It was settled in 1650. Pop. (1910) 11,187; (1920) 18,665.
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Arlington Heights
a range of hills in Fairfax co., Va., on the Potomac, opposite Washington. They were strongly fortified during the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had a residence here. The place is now the site of a National Soldiers' Cemetery.
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Arliss
GEORGE, an English actor, born in London in 1868. He was educated in that city and made his first appearance on the stage in 1887. In 1901 he toured America with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and in the following year played with Blanche Bates. He was later leading man for Mrs. Fiske. He made a great success in the title rôles of "The Devil" and of "Disraeli." He was successful also in the play "Hamilton," 1917.
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Armadale
a novel by Wilkie Collins. See Collins
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Armageddon
the great battlefield of the Old Testament, where the chief conflicts took place between the Israelites and their enemies-the tableland of Esdraelon in Galilee and Samaria, in the center of which stood the town Megiddo, on the site of the modern Lejjun; used figuratively in the Apocalypse to signify the place of "the battle of the to great day of God."
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Armagh
a city, and capiital of Armagh co., Ireland; and the archiepiscopal seat of the Primate of all Ireland; 70 miles N. W. of Dublin. It is said to have been founded by St. Patrick, A. D. 450. Pop. about 7,000.
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Armature
armor worn for the defense of the body, or, more frequently, the armor in which some animals are enveloped for their protection against their natural foes. In magnetism, the armatures, called also the keepers, of a magnetic bar are pieces of soft iron placed in contact with its pol poles. These, by being acted on inductively, become magnets, and, reacting in their turn, not merely preserve, but even increase, the magnetism of the original bar. Magnets thus provided are said to be armed. Sometimes an armature is made of steel and is permanently magnetized. Such an armature is termed a polarized armature, and is used in various appliances, magneto generators, telegraphic instruments, etc. In dynamic electricity, the armature is the shaft or central revolving arm of an electric generator, by the movement of which the current is generated. In electricity (a) the internal and external armatures, or coatings of a Leyden jar, and the coatings of tinfoil on its interior, and part of its exterior, surface; (b) Siemens' armature or bobbin, an armature designed for magneto-electrical machines, in which the insulated wire is wound longitudinally on the core, instead of transversely, as is the ordinary arrangement. In architecture, iron bars, employed for the consolidation of a building.
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