Barleys
The small, diamond shaped projections left after engine turning. BARLOW, EDWARD, An English clergyman who is said to have invented the rack striking work for clocks. With this mechanism, which was invented in 1676, clocks could be made to repeat the hour at will, and this invention was quickly followed by the repeating watches of Quare. Both Barlow and Quare applied for patents on repeating watches and the English government finally decided in favor of the latter in 1687.
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Barlow
Joel, an American poet and politician. He was born at Reading, Connecticut, in 1755 and was graduated at Yale College during the Revolutionary War. Barlow was a young soldier, a wit, a chaplain, an editor, a lawyer, an agent for a land company, a merchant, an American consul at Algiers, and in 1811 minister plenipotentiary to France. While seeking an interview with Napoleon in Poland, he died in a village near Cracow, 1812. His name appears among the early writers of American verse, as the author of the Columbiad. He wrote also a number of humorous poems. The most noted is Hasty Pudding from which we quote a few lines: I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense and my evening meal-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ev'n in thy native regions, how I blush To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush! 2026 Editor's Note: Joel Barlow met a remarkable end for a Connecticut poet: sent to negotiate with Napoleon, he chased the emperor into Poland and was caught in the catastrophic retreat from Moscow , dying of exposure in a Polish village in 1812. His grand epic The Columbiad is forgotten, but his mock-heroic ode to cornmeal mush, 'The Hasty Pudding,' is still occasionally read. (Ed: BR 2026-07-01)
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Barlow
JANE, an Irish poet and story writer, born in County Dublin Her popular books inabout 1857. clude "Irish Idylls" (1892); "Bogland Studies," "Kerrigan's Quality," "Walled Out, or Eschatology in a Bog," "The Mockers of the Shallow Waters" at Lisconnel" (1893); "Strangers (1895); "Irish Ways" (1911); "Flaws" (1912); etc. She died in 1917.
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Barlow
FRANCIS CHANNING, an American military officer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1834; graduated from Harvard College in 1855; studied law in New York, and practiced there. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th Regiment, New York State National Guard. He was promoted Lieutenant after three months of service; Colonel during the siege of Yorktown; distinguished himself in the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines, for which he was promoted Brigadier-General; fought in almost every subsequent battle of the Army of the Potomac. He was severely wounded at Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, and at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. He was mustered out of the service with the rank of Major-General of volunteers. In 1860-1868, he was Secretary of State of New York; in 1871 became Attorney- General; and in 1873 resumed law practice in New York. He died in New York City, Jan. 11, 1896.
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Barlow (JOEL an American poet)
JOEL, an American poet and statesman, born in Reading, Conn., March 24, 1754; published political works and poems, which contain many philosophical and political dissertations, "The Vision of Columbus" (1787) was extended into "The Columbiad," a long epic (1807). He also wrote "The Conspiracy of Kings" (1792), and the celebrated poem, "Hasty Pudding." He died near Cracow, Poland, Dec. 24, 1812, while on his way to meet Napoleon I. in his capacity as commissioner to the French Emperor.
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Barlow (PETER an English physicist)
PETER, an English physicist and mathematician, born at Norwich in 1776. He was Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich for a period of 40 years. In 1823, he was elected a Fellow the Royal Society, and in 1825 reof ceived from it the Copley medal for his researches in magnetism. In 1829 he was admitted a member of the French Institute. His greatest work is the "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary." He was also the author of "Machinery and Manufactures of Great Britain" (1837); "Force and Rapidity of Locomotives" (1838); and "Essay and Magnetic Attraction," one of the first works in which the phenomena of magnetism were distinctly enunciated. He died in 1862.
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Barmecides
an illustrious family of Khorassan, the romance of vhose history is equally familiar to Europeans and Americans in the "Arabian Nights Entertainments," and to Orientals in the pages of their historians and poets; and who flourished at the Court of the early Abbasside Caliphs. Barmec, or Barmek, the founder of the family, transmitted the honors conferred on him by the Caliph Abd-al-Malik to his son, Khalid, and from him they passed to his son, Yahia, who, becoming tutor to the famous Haroun-al-Raschid, acquired an influence over that Prince, which carried his sons, Fadl, or Fazl, Giaffar, Mohammed, and Mousa, to the highest dignities of the Court. The virtues and munificence of the Barmecides were, for a long period, displayed under favor of Haroun; but one of the brothers, Giaffar, having at last become an object of suspicion to the Caliph, Yahia and his sons were suddenly seized, Giaffar beheaded, and the others condemned to perpetual imprisonment. The year 802 is assigned as the date of this tragedy.
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Barmen
a city on the Wupper, in the Prussian Rhine province, government of Düsseldorf, and formed by the union of seven villages contained in the fine valley of Barmen. It has extensive ribbon and other textile manufactures; also dye works, manufactures of chemicals, metal wares, buttons, yarns, iron, machines, pianos, organs, soap, etc. Pop. about 175,000.
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Barn Burners
the nickname given ported Van Buren in the campaign of party in New York State, which sup- 1848.
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Barnabas
CAPE, a headland of Alaska, which Cook discovered on St. Barnabas Day.
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Barnaby Rudge
a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1841. It is one of the two historical novels which Dickens attempted,--the other being A Tale of Two Cities . The story relates to the Gordon Riots, or "No Popery Riots," as they were called, of 1780. Barnaby, a poor half-witted lad, becomes involved in these riots and is condemned to death, but is finally pardoned. The plot of Barnaby Rudge is unusually intricate. It has few side issues, and those that appear have a close relation with the main thread of the story. Compared with Dickens' other stories, it offers little opportunity for humor and pathos. It is often regarded, therefore, as less characteristic than his other novels. The interest of the story, however, never flags. The gathering of the mob and the storming of Newgate are intensely dramatic; and in the character drawing Dickens is at his best. Barnaby, foolish and happy, with Grip, the raven, for his one close frend; Dolly Varden ; Miss Miggs, and Hugh, the hostler, are vivid pictures. Grip, it is interesting to note, is drawn from life. 2026 Editor's Note: Barnaby Rudge has an odd literary footnote: Barnaby's pet raven, Grip , so delighted Edgar Allan Poe when he reviewed the novel that it helped inspire his poem 'The Raven.' Grip even survives — stuffed — in a Philadelphia library. It is one of only two historical novels Dickens wrote. (Ed: BR 2026-07-02)
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