These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Arnoux, Arnulf, Arnuphis.
Author of a volume published at Rouen, in 1630, with the title of On the Wonders of the Other World, a work written in a bizarre style, and calculated to disturb feeble imaginations with its tales of visions and apparitions.
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a great-grandson of Charlethemagne, elected King of Germany in A. D. 887; invaded Italy, captured Rome, and crowned Emperor by the Pope was (896); died A. D. 899. AROMATIC. (1) In chemistry, acids whose radical has the form CH2-8029 as the benzoic, the toluic, and the cummic, or cumic. There are also aromatic alcohols, aldehydes, hydrocarbons, and ketones. (2) A plant pla or a substance which exhales a fragrant odor, conjoined in general with a warm, pungent taste.
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An Egyptian sorcerer who, seeing Marcus Aurelius and his army engaged in a pass whose entrance had been closed by their enemies, and dying of thirst under a burning sky, caused a miraculous rain to fall, which allowed the Romans to quench their thirst, while the thunder and hail obliged the enemy to give up their arms.
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a very volatile and powerful perfume, made by adding the essential oils of lavender, cloves, ves, etc., and often camphor, to crystallizable acetic acid. It is a powerful excitant in fainting, languor, and headache.
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an American river; rises in Piscataquis co., Me.; flows more than 120 miles in a circuitous course, receiving many important tributaries; and enters the St. John River in New Brunswick. It was an important factor in the settlement of the long-pending dispute concerning the boundary between the United States and British America. AROUET. See VOLTAIRE.
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the conqueror of Hungary, and founder of the Arpad dynasty, which pean reinforcement. Pop. about 50,000. reigned till 1301, was born in the second half of the 9th century. He was the son of Almus, whom the seven Magyar clans dwelling in the steppes N. E. of the awer Caspian Sea had elected their hereditary chief about 889. Thus united into one nation, the Magyars, mustering about 25,000 warriors, crossed the Carpathians and conquered Hungary, when Arpad was elected their prince. Arpad was unable completely to transform their nomadic hordes into an agricultural nation. He died in 907.
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the distinct sound of the notes of an instrumental chord; the striking the notes of a chord in rapid succession, as in the manner of touching the harp instead of playing them simultaneously.
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formerly a French measure for land, equal to five-sixths of an English acre; but varying in different parts of France.
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A Persian sorcerer, who was killed by a thunderbolt, according to Abdias of Babylon, at the same hour as the martyrdom of St. Simon and St. Jude. In the account of the possession of the nuns of Loudun there is a demon Arphaxat, who took possession of the body of Louise de Pinterville.
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a town of south Italy, province of Caserta, 94 miles N. W. of Naples. It is the ancient Arpinum, birthplace of Caius Marius, Agrippa, and Cicero; pop. about 10,000.
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A town of Latium on the small river Fibrenus, originally belonging to the Volscians and afterwards to the Samnites, was a Roman municipium, and received the jus suffragii, or right of voting in the Roman comitia, B. C. 188. It was the birthplace of Marius and Cicero. 2026 Editor's Note: Arpinum was the birthplace of both Gaius Marius and Marcus Tullius Cicero, as noted on this page. However, Cicero's younger brother, Quintus Tullius Cicero , a general and statesman in his own right, was also born in Arpinum. The town's Roman name, Arpinum, is preserved in the modern Italian municipality of Arpino , located about 100 km southeast of Rome. (Ed: BR 2026-06-03)
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a town of north Italy, 12 miles S. W. of Padua, in which province it is situated. It is famous for having been the residence of Petrarch ng during the greater part of his life, and the place where he died in 1374. His sarcophagus is still to be seen.
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a genus of plants belonging to the order apiaceæ, or umbellifers. A. esculenta is cultivated for the sake of its root which is used as an esculent in the elevated portions of equinoctial America.
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a town of British India, in Shahabad district, Bengal, rendered famous during the mutiny of 1857 by the heroic resistance of a body of 20 civilians and 50 Sikhs, cooped up within a detached house, to a force of 3,000 Sepoys, who were ultimately routed and overthrown by the arrival of a small Euro-
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in the practice of criminal law the calling of a prisoner by his name to the bar of the court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment.
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BATTLES OF large commerce in cotton and stuffs, hosiery, lace, pottery, etc. Arras has been the theater of many memorable historical events, and was fortified by Vauban, in the reign of Louis XIV. Robespierre was born here, as was also Damiens, the assassin of Louis XV. During the Middle Ages, Arras was famed for its tapestry, richly figured hangings that adorned the halls of the kings and the nobles. They were known under the name of arras; but have been for a long time superseded by the tapestry of the Gobelins. Arras was the capital of the Celtic Atrebates (whence the name), and consequently of the province of is. As such it was long a part of Artois. Burgundy. It was ceded to France in 1482; attached to Austria in 1493; and finally became French in 1640, when Louis XIII. took it after a long siege. In the World War the town was wrecked by bomdardments. The Germans attacked the place three times in October, 1914. From Oct. 20 to 26 Arras was under heavy fire. Eventually the French under General Maud'huy drove the Germans back so far that their howitzers could no longer threaten the town. Pop. about 26,000.
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a genus of plants belonging to the order graminaceæ, or grasses. A species grows wild in England, A. avenaceum, or tall, oatlike grass. It is also cultivated occasionally in England, and much more frequently in France, but is not very nutritious.
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