Each of these 10 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.
an ancient Egyptian town, so named from the goddess Bast, supposed to answer to the Greek Artemis or Diana. The cat was sacred to her, and the bubasteia or festivals of the goddess were the largest and most important of the Egyptian festivals.
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a genus of birds belonging to the family strigidæ, or owls. They have a small ear aperture, two large feathered tufts like horns on the sides of the head, and the legs feathered to the toes. B. maximus is the eagle owl, or great owl. It is a native of Europe. The corresponding American species is B. virginianus.
hardening and enlargement of lymphatic glands, generally the inguinal, as in the Oriental or Levantine plague, syphiloid, gonorrhea, etc., always, unless dissipated by medical interference, followed by suppuration. In cases of true infecting syphilis a suppurating bubo is a rare complication, although induration of the glands in the later forms of the disease is almost invariably present.
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ANTONIO MARIA, a Spanish soldier and administrator; born in Seville, Jan. 24, 1717; was governor of Cuba in 1760-1771, and 4 viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) from 1771 till his death in Mexico City, April 9, 1779.
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an order of men, not quite pirates, yet with decidedly piratical tendencies, who for nearly 200 years infested the Spanish main and the adjacent regions. A bull of Pope Alexander VI., issued in 1493, having granted to Spain all lands which might be discovered W. of the Azores, the Spaniards thought that they possessed a monopoly of all countries in the New World, and that they had a right to seize, ze, and even put to death, all interlopers into their wide domain. Enterprising mariners belonging to other nations, and especially those of England and France, considered themselves at liberty to push their fortunes within the prohibited regions. Being cruelly treated, when taken, by the Spaniards, their comrades made reprisals, and a state of war was established between the Spanish governments in the New World and the adventurers from the Old. The association of buccaneers began about 1524, and continued till after the English revolution of 1688, when the French attacked the English in the West Indies, and the buccaneers of the two countries, who had hitherto been friends, took different sides, and were separated forever. Thus weakened, they began to be suppressed between 1697 and 1701, and soon afterward ceased to exist. The buccaneers were also called "filibustiers," or filibusters."
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buk-ka-nerz,' Central American freebooters. The name is applied to various lawless bands of English and French pirates who haunted the islands of the Caribbean Sea . Their exact number cannot be stated for any particular time. They possessed ships and were well armed. They raided and plundered settlements, pillaged cities, captured merchantmen, and took treasure ships. Their depredations began about 1525 and continued until the beginning of the eighteenth century. They appear to have originated in the desire of the French and English to drive the Spanish shipping out of the Caribbean. English ports were open to them for the sale of Spanish prizes and later they grew so bold and so strong that even the English flag offered a ship no protection from their lawless acts of piracy. At their height they were organized into a sort of piratical republic with a code of laws. They roamed the seas in large bands, dividing their plunder according to fixed rules. The fierce Frenchman. Montbars, and the Welshman, Henry Morgan, were among their famous leaders. The cities of Vera Cruz and Cartagena were among the cities plundered. San Domingo was the center of the French buccaneers; Jamaica of the English.
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the trumpeter's muscle, one of the maxillary group of muscles of the cheek. They are the active agents beautifully in mastication, and are adapted for it. The buccinator circumscribes the cavity of the mouth and, aided by the tongue, keeps the food under the pressure of the teeth; it also helps to shorten the pharynx from before backward, and thus assists in deglutition. BUCCINIDÆ, a family of mollusks belonging to the order prosobranchiata, and the section siphonostomata. They constitute part of Cuvier's buccinoida. They have the shell notched in front, or with the canal abruptly reflected so as to produce a varix on the front of the shell. The leading genera are buccinum terehra, eburna, nassa, purpura, cassis, dolium, harpa and oliva.
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the typical genus of the family buccinidæ. In Er English they are called whelks, which are not to be confounded with the periwinkle, also sometimes called whelk. B. undatum is the common whelk. Species of the genus exist in the cretaceous rocks, but it is essentially Tertiary and recent.
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the title (now a dukedom) of one of the oldest families in Scotland, tracing descent from Sir Richard le Scott in the reign of Alexander III. (latter half of the 13th century), and first becoming conspicuous in the person of the border chieftain Sir Walter Scott, of Branxholm and Buccleugh the latter an estate in Selkirkshire. The son of Sir Walter, bearing the same name, was, for his valor and services, raised to the peerage, in 1606, as Lord Scott of Buccleugh, and his successor was made an Earl in 1619. In 1663 the titles and estates devolved upon Anne, daughter of the second Earl, who married the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II., the pair, in 1673, being created Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, etc. Subsequently the Dukedom of Queensberry passed, by marriage, into the family.
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a mythical monster, half man and half ox. The splendid galley in which the Doge of Venice annually wedded the Adriatic bore this name, doubtless because of the figure of a bucentaur on her bow. Three ships were built for this ceremony, enjoined by Pope Alexander III., and all bore a bucentaur figure-head; and the last one was destroyed by the French in 1798. 1
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MARTIN (bü-sā' or bū'ser), a Protestant reformer, born in Alsace, in 1491; first united with Luther, but afterward inclined to Zwinglius, though he labored much to bring the two parties into a union. He went to England, in 1549, and was made Divinity Professor at Cambridge, where he died, Feb. 28, 1551. In the reign of Mary, his body was taken up and burned. His writings are very numerous.
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