Brigantes
the most powerful of the old British tribes, inhabiting the country between the Humber and Roman wall. the
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These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Brigantes, Brigantine, Briggs.
Brigantine
a sailing vessel with two masts, the foremast rigged like a brig's, the main mast rigged like a schooner's. Called also hermaphrodite brig. a clergy-
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Briggs
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, an American clergyman and religious writer, born in New York City, Jan. 15, 1841. In 1874 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew in Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was tried for heresy in 1892, but was acquitted. In 1899 he formally severed his connection with the New York Presbytery and was ordained man of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Among his works are " American Presbyterianism" (1885); "The Messiah of the Apostles" (1886); " The Messiah of the Gospels," "The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch," and "The Bible, the Church, and the Reason"; "Christian Unity" (1909); "Theological Symbolics" (posthumous, 1914). He died in 1913.
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Briggs (HENRY an English mathe)
HENRY, an English mathe- , Yorkshire, matician, born near Halifax in 1561; studied at St. John's College, other Australian ports, as well as with there is an London (11,295 miles), and on both sides extensive system of wharfs of the river. Brisbane was settled as a penal sta- , Govtion, in 1825, by Sir T. Brisbane In 1836 the ernor of New South Wales. of the comtown comprised the houses , a mandant and other officers, barracks etc. Three years later tread mill, stores, object. She learned to know people almost instantly by the touch alone. In a year or two more she was able to receive lessons in geography, algebra, and history. She received and answered letters from all parts of the world. She learned to write a fair, legible, square hand, and to read with great dexterity. She died May 4, 1889.
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Briggs (HENRY an English mathematician)
HENRY, an English mathematician, born near Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1561; studied at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1592 he was appointed reader of the Physic Lecture founded by Dr. Linacre, and in 1596 first reader in geometry at Gresham House (afterward College), London, and in 1619 first Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. He made an important contribution to the theory of logarithms, of which he constructed invaluable tables, containing an improvement which was adopted by Napier the inventor. He Prima" in 1617, containing the first published his "Logarithmorum Chilias thousand natural numbers calculated to eight decimal places. He was also the author of a tract on the "Northwest Passage to the South Seas," by way of in 1624 he published his "Arithmetica Logarithmica," the fruit of many years Virginia and Hudson Bay (1622), and of unwearied application . His system adopted. He next employed himself on of logarithms is that now commonly a table of logarithms of sines and tangents, carried to the hundredth part of a degree, and to 15 places, which, with a table of natural sines, tangents, and land, in 1631, and published in London secants, was printed at Gouda, in Holin 1633, under the title of "Trigonometria Britannica. " He died in Oxford, Jan. 26, 1631.
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Briggs (II)
FRANK OBADIAH, American Senator; born at Concord, N. H., Aug. 12, 1851. He was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1872, becoming second lieutenant in the Second Regiment of infantry. In 1877 he resigned from the army and settled in Trenton, N. J., joining the John A. Roebling's Sons Co. In 1899 he was chosen mayor of Trenton, in 1901 became a member of the State Board of Education, and in 1902 State Treasurer. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1907, but was defeated in 1912. He died in the following year.
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Brigham
a city of Utah, in Box Line and the Southern Pacific railroads. Elder co. It is on the Oregon Short It is the center of an important fruit are canning and cement factories, plangrowing and agricultural region. There ing mills, and lumber yards. The city has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 3,685; (1920) 5,282. man, son of Jacob Bright, a Quaker cot-
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Bright (JOHN an English stateston)
JOHN, an English stateston spinner and manufacturer at Roch- Nov. 16, 1811. When the Anti-Corn dale, Lancashire, born in Lancashire, Law League was formed in 1839 he was Mr. Cobden, engaged in an extensive one of its leading members, and, with free-trade agitation. He was incessant, ment, in his opposition to the Corn both at public meetings and in Parlia- Laws, until they were finally repealed. In 1845 he obtained the appointment of Game Laws, and also one on the suba select committee of the House on the ject of cotton cultivation in India. A member of the Peace Society, he strenuously opposed the war with Russia in 1854. In 1855 he energetically de- 1857 for Birmingham, he seconded the nounced the Crimean War. Elected in motion against the second reading of the Conspiracy Bill, which led to the overit is addressed. The brief is an official document, but of a less public character than the bull.
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Bright (RICHARD an English born)
RICHARD, an English , born in Bristol, Sept. 28, physician 1789; studied at Edinburgh, Berlin, and Vienna. His name is associated with DISEASE (q. v.), he being the BRIGHT'S . first who investigated its character He died Dec. 16, 1858. BRIGHTON (formerly BRIGHTHELM- STONE), a maritime town and favorite watering place in England, county of Sussex, 50½ miles from London. It is protected situated on a gentle slope, the high ground from the N. winds by of the South Downs immediately behind handthe town, and is well built, built, with some streets, terraces, squares, etc. In front of the town is a massive sea wall, with a promenade and drive over 3 miles in length, one of the finest in Europe. Among the remarkable buildings, all of modern date, is the Pavilion, built by George IV., which cost upward of $5,- 000,000. It is in the Oriental style, with numerous cupolas, spires, etc. Brighton has no manufactures, and is resorted to only as a watering-place. It was about the middle of the 18th century that Dr. Russell, an eminent physician, drew attention to Brighton, which subsequently was patronized by : Wales Wales; George IV., then Prince of in this way it was converted from a decayed fishing village into a fashionable and populous watering-place. It has sent two members to Parliament since 1832. Pop. about 132,000.
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