Bullen
FRANK THOMAS, an English author, born in Paddington, Lonearly education don, April 5, 1857. His errand was scanty, and after acting as he boy with various mercantile firms, seaman embarked in 1869 as an ordinary , soon rising to the position of chief mate. be- In 1883 he abandoned the sea, and meteorologcame a clerk in the English ical office, a position which he held until sketches 1889. He wrote some short bearing on seafaring life, and they were so extraordinarily vivid and interesting the very and were so pervaded with soon achieved breath of the sea that he a reputation with publishers and the numerous reading public. Among his writings may be mentioned "The Cruise Log of of the Cachalot" (1898); "The a Sea Waif" (1899); "With Christ at Sea" (1901); "Deep Sea Plunderings" Wife" (1902); (1901); "A Whaleman's 1907). He and "The Call of the Deep" ( died at Madeira in 1915.
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Bullet-mould
This entire mould consists of a pair of hinged cheeks, with one or more spherical cavities reamed therein, connecting with an ingate through which the melted lead is poured. They must fit exceedingly close when brought together.
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Bullseye
A thick watch resembling a bull's eye in shape. A term usually applied to old fashioned English verge watches.
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Bulrush
or BULLRUSH, a name sometimes given to the botanical genus typha, called also cat's tail or reed mace. It is also the name of the genus scirpus, called also clubrush. Especially used of the species scrpus lacustris, lake clubrush. The bulrush of Scripture is the translation of two distinct Hebrew words, agmon, possibly an arundo or some similar genus, in Isa. lviii: 5, and gome, evidently the papyrus nilotica (Ex. ii: 3, Isa. xviii: 2).
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Bulwer
HENRY LYTTON EARLE (LORD DALLING), an English author and diplomatist, brother of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, born Feb. 13, 1801; was minister to Madrid in 1843; in 1849 had a diplomatic mission to Washington, and was one of the negotiators of the BUL- WER-CLAYTON TREATY (q. v.); was ambassador to Turkey in 1858-1865. Among his works are "An Autumn in Greece" (1826); "France. Social, Literary, and Political" (1834-1836); and "Life of Byron" (1835). He died in Naples, May 23, 1872.
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Bulwer-Clayton Treaty
a treaty negotiated at Washington, D. C., in April, 1850, by John M. Clayton, Secretary of State under President Taylor, and Sir Henry Bulwer, British Minister to the United States. The treaty provided that neither the United States nor Great Britain should attempt to control proposed canal across Nicaragua. a The treaty provided further for the neutrality of the canal, and it guaranteed encouragement to all lines of interoceanic communication. The terms of the treaty were afterward much disputed. In 1882 the United States Government intimated to Great Britain that the canal having become impracticable because of reasons for which Great responsible, the Britain alone was United States considered the treaty as no longer binding, but Great Britain continued to hold it as in force. On March 3, 1899, Congress passed a bill providing for the construction of a canal on the Nicaragua route, which also authorized the President to open negotiations with Great Britain for the abrogation of the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty, and, under the last clause a convention between the two countries, abrogating the portions of the treaty that were deemed to be against the interest of the United States, was signed in Washington, Feb. 5, 1900.
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Bulwer-Lytton
EDWARD, LORD LYTTON, an English novelist, playwright, and poet, born in London, May 25, 25, 1803; was the son of Gen. Earle Bulwer and Elizabeth B. Lytton, heiress of Knebworth, to whose estates he succeeded in 1844 and assumed the surname of Lytton. In 1847, and again in 1852, he sat in Parliament; and in 1858-1859 was Colonial Secretary, during which he called into existence the colonies of British Columbia and Queensland. In 1866 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton. Altogether his works ex- L ceed 60 in number, and fill 110 volumes. His novels display great versatility, range of power, power of handling psychological and social problems, variety of incident and portraiture; and many are based on romantic and occult themes. Among the most famous are "Falkland" (1827); "Pelham" (1828); "Devercux" (1829); "Paul Clifford" (1830); “Eugene Aram" (1832); "Godolphin" (1833); "Pilgrims of the Rhine" (1834); "Last Days of Pompeii" (1834);, "Rienzi" (1837); "Ernest Maltravers" (1837); "Alice, or the Mysteries" (1838); "Last of the Barons" (1843); "Harold" (1843); "The Caxtons" (1850); "My Novel" (1853): "What Will He Do with It?" (1859); "A Strange Story" (1862); "The Coming Race" (1871); "Kenelm Chillingly" (1873); and "The Parisians" (1873). Three of his dramas "The Lady of Lyons" (1838); "Richelieu" (1838); and "Money" (1848) - still hold the stage. He died in Torquay, Jan. 18, 1873. BUMBLE BEE. See BEE.
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Bumblebee
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Bumpus
HERMON CAREY, American scientist and ichthyologist; born at Buckfield, Me., May 5, 1862. He studied at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1884. From 1886 to 1889, he was professor of biology at Olivet College, Michigan, and in 1892 took the chair of comparative anatomy at Brown University. He was made director of the biological laboratory of the Government Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Mass., in 1898, and became director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in 1902. From 1914 to 1919 he was president of Tufts College, Massachusetts. He wrote numerous monographs on scientific subjects.
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Buncombe
a county in North Carolina. The term bunkum, meaning talking for talking's sake, bombastic speech making, is said to have originated with a Congressional member for this county, who declared that he was only talking for Buncombe, when attempts were made to cut his oratory short.
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Bundesrat
the Federal Council of the former German Empire which represented the individual states of the Empire, as the Reichstag represented the German nation. It consisted of 61 members, and its functions were mainly those of a confirming body, body, although it had the privilege ege of rejecting press upon susceptible points. measures passed by the Reichstag. It went out of existence when Germany became a republic in 1918.
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