These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bruchsal, Bruchus, Brucine.
a town of Baden, 25 miles S. of Heidelberg. It was the residence of the prince-bishops of Spires from the 11th century, but lost its importance until it became a considerable railway center. The Grand- Duke of Baden has a fine palace here. Pop. about 15,000.
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a genus of beetles belonging to the section tetramera, and the family rhyncophora or curculionidæ. The antennæ are 14-jointed, and are filiform, serrate or pectinated, not geniculated as in the more normal curculionidæ. It contains small beetles which deposit their larvæ in the germs of leguminous plants, and, when hatched, devour their seed. B. pisi is destructive to the garden ca.
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or BRUCIA (named from the plant B. antidysenterica, from which it is derived), an alkaloid found along with strychnine in nux vomica; also in false Angostura bark.
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a town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on the right bank of the Aar, and near the mouth of the Reuss, 36 miles E. S. E. of Basel by rail. Near it is the site of Vindonissa, the chief Roman station in Helvetia; and it was also the cradle of the house of Hapsburg, whose ruined castle, founded in 1020, crowns a wooded height 2 miles from the village. Nearer is the abbey of Königsfelden (1310; converted in 1872 into an asylum), in the vaults beneath which are interred many of the members of the Austrian royal family.
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HEINRICH KARL (brögsh), a German Egyptologist, born in Berlin, Feb. 18, 1827. He early devoted himself to the study of Egyptian antiquities, and resided a number of years in Egypt, being for some time in the employment of the Egyptian Government, by which he was created a Bey, and latterly a Pasha. His "History of Egypt from the Monuments" has been translated into English. He died in Berlin, Sept. 11, 1894.
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A Dutch doctor and astrologer who died at Bruges, in 1571. He published in that town in 1550 a Grand and Perpetual Almanack in which he scrupulously indicated by the tenets of judicial astrology the correct days for bathing, shaving, hair-cutting and so forth. The work caused offence to a certain magistrate of Bruges who plied the tonsorial trade, with the result that there appeared against Bruhesen's volume another Grand and Perpetual Almanack, with the flippant subtitle a scourge for empirics and charlatans. This squib was published by a rival medico, François Rapaert, but Peter Haschaerts, a surgeon, and a protagonist of astrological science, warmly defended Bruhesen in his Astrological Buckler.
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One of the actors mentioned in the Grand Saint Graal. He it was who discovered the Grail Sword in Solomon 's ship, and with it slew Lambor. For this use of the holy sword, however, the whole of Britain suffered, for no wheat grew, the fruit trees bare no fruit, and there was no fish in the sea. Bruillant himself was puuished with death.
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or CONTUSION, signifies an injury inflicted by a blow or sudden pressure, in which the skin is not wounded, and no bone is broken or dislocated. Both terms, and especially the latter, are employed in surgery to include all such injuries in their widest range, from a black eye to a thoroughly crushed mass of muscle. 14-Vol. II-Cyc BRUNAÏ With regard to treatment, simple and not very severe bruises require little treatment, but the rest necessary for the avoidance of pain; but the removal of the swelling and discoloration may be hastened by the application of various local stimulants, which seem to act by accelerating the circulation through the bruised part, and promoting the absorption of the effused fluid. Tinture of arnica has a great reputation; but experiments have made it very doubtful whether it is any more efficacious than simple spirit of the same strength. A solution of sulphurous acid, and hazeline and other preparations of the American witch-hazel are of more value. They should be kept constantly applied to the bruised part on lint or cotton wool. Bruises of a more severe nature, as when there is much breaking or crushing of the tissues, must, of course, at once be placed in the hands of a surgeon.
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the second month of the year in the French Revolutionary calendar. It commenced on the 23d of October, and ended on the 21st of November, thus comprising 30 days. It received its name from the fogs that usually prevail about this time. The 18th of Brumaire, VIII. year (Nov. 9, 1799), is celebrated for the overthrow of the Directory, and the establishment of the sway of Napoleon.
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GEORGE BRYAN (the sometime famous BEAU BRUMMEL), born in London, June 7, 1778. He was educated at Eton, and there formed intimacies with the younger nobility of the day. On his father's death, inheriting a fortune of about $150,000, he began his career as a man of fashion, and became the intimate associate of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.). He it was who inaugurated the reign of dandyism, and for a period of 20 years exercised almost despotic sway over English society in the matter of dress. His fortune being soon swallowed up, he maintained his position in society by his success at play. After a rupture with the Prince, oppressed by debt, and the falling off of former friends, he retired to Calais, and afterward to Caen, where he was appointed British consul, and where he died, March 30, 1840. BRUNAÏ (bröni), or BRUNEI, a British Protectorate in the N. W. of Borneo, till 1888 nominally an independent Mo. hammedan territory, whose sultan was formerly overlord of the whole island. Area, about 4,000 square miles; pop. est. at 30,000, divided into trade castes. The capital, Brunaï, on a river of the same name, is a miserable, dirty town, built on piles, with about 10,000 inhabitants, who trade with Singapore. See BORNEO.
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George Bryan (1778-1840), an English leader of fashion known chiefly as Beau Brummell. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He was a boyhood friend of George IV, and inherited a fortune. He led a fashionable life. His say-so was law in court matters of etiquette and dress. He fell into debt and fled from his creditors to Calais, where he lived on a small salary as consul. Friends sent him some money. He died in poverty in a lunatic asylum. 2026 Editor's Note: Brummell created a social type that outlived him: the dandy , whose art is himself. Baudelaire wrote an essay treating dandyism as a kind of heroism, a last aristocratic protest against a leveling age, and the line runs on through Oscar Wilde to every carefully constructed modern style icon. He died mad and penniless in Caen. (Ed: BR 2026-06-02)
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