Barnacle
in zoölogy, (1) A general name for both pedunculated and sessile cirripeds. (2) Special: The English name of the pedunculated cirripeds (lepadidæ), as contradistinguished from those which are sessile, yet more especially applied to the lepas, the typical genus of the family and order. In ornithology the name for the barnacle goose. Formerly the absurb belief was entertained that these geese sprung from the barnacles described above. Two species of the genus lepas were called, by Linnæus, lepas anserifera and L. anatifera goose-bearing, of course with no belief in the fable suggested by the name.
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EDWARD EMERSON, an American astronomer, born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1857; graduated at Vanderbilt University in 1887; was astronomer in Lick Observatory, California, in 1887-1895, and then became Professor of Astronomy in Chicago University and Director of the Yerkes Observatory. His principal discoveries are the fifth satellite of Ju Jupiter in 1892, and 16 comets. He has made photographs of the Milky Way, the comets, nebulæ, etc. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Lelande gold medal in 1892, the Arago gold medal in 1893, the Janssen gold medal in 1900, and the Janssen prize in 1906, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain gave him a gold medal in 1897. He is a member of many American and foreign societies, and a contributor to astronomical journals.
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Barnard (III)
GEORGE GREY, an American sculptor , born in Bellefonte, Pa., in 1863. He studied art in Paris, exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1894, was awarded a gold medal in the Paris Exposition in 1900, and also received other medals for excellency in artistic work. For several years he was professor of sculpture in the Art Students' League, New York. Following the death of Augustus Saint Gaudens he was the most conspicuous of American sculptors. His best known works include sculptures for the Pennsylvania State capitol and a statue of Lincoln which, after a bitter controversy as to its fidelity and artistic merits, was presented to the city of Manchester, England , in 1920.
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Barnard College
a college for part of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (q. v.). women in New York City, forming a There were in 1919, 715 students and 86 members of the faculty . Dean, V. C. Gildersleeve, Ph. D. English philanthropist; founder of the
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Barnard, Frederick A. P.
Frederick A. P. (1809-1889), an American educator. He was a native of Sheffield, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Yale College. From 1854 until 1861 he was connected with the University of Mississippi, but resigned at the breaking out of the Civil War. He was president of Columbia College, now University, New York , 1864-88. Barnard College for women, an affiliated school of the university, was established in accordance with his plans and was named in his honor.
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Barnard, Henry
Henry (1811-1900), a distinguished American educator. He was born at Hartford, Connecticut. In 1855 he founded the American Journal of Education. He was president of the University of Wisconsin 1856-9. He was the first United States Commissioner of Education, holding that position from 1867 until 1870. He wrote several works of pedagogy, including Hints and Methods for Teachers, German Educational Reformers, and a volume on Pestalozzi. His reports are a mine of information on educational subjects.
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Barnard-Castle
a town of England , county of Durham, giving name to a parliamentary division of the county. There is a large thread mill and carpet manufactories, the Bowes Museum and School. The castle was originally built about 1178 by Barnard Baliol, grandfather of John Baliol .
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Barnaud, Nicholas
A medical doctor of the sixteenth century who claimed to have discovered the Philosophers' Stone. He published a great number of short treatises on the subject of Alchemy , which are contained in the third volume of the Theatrum Chimicum of Zetzner, pub-- lished at Strasburg, in 1659.
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Barnave
ANTOINE PIERRE to the radical element of the Democratic
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Barnburners
in American politics, a progressive section of the Democratic party in New York . They were in reality bolters, who were displeased by the election of President Polk in 1844. They were represented as willing to destroy their party in an effort to reform it. The nickname was given them in allusion to an anecdote then current of a Dutchman who set fire to his barn to clear it of rats. The Barnburners favored canal construction and opposed the extension of slavery into new territory. Locally they supported the knot of political managers known as the " Albany Regency ," as opposed to the National Democracy controlled by the friends of James K. Polk. Among the leaders admired by the Barnburners were William L. Marcy, Silas Wright, Martin Van Buren, and John A. Dix. Later this wing of the Democracy was merged with the Free-Soilers. See Free Soil Party 2026 Editor's Note: The Barnburners' anti-slavery revolt fed directly into the Free Soil Party and then the new Republican Party that would elect Lincoln. Their nickname — from the Dutchman who burned his barn to kill the rats — survives as a metaphor for those willing to destroy somet hing in order to reform it. (Ed: BR 2026-06-12)
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Barnegat Bay
a bay on the E. coast of New Jersey, about 25 miles in with the Atlantic. length. Barnegat Inlet connects the bay a British statesman, born in Scotland in
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GEORGE NICOLL, 1859. He entered Parliament in 1906 as representative of the Labor party. In 1910 he was made Pensions Minister, and in 1917 became a member of the War Council. He was a delegate to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919, and was framing of the Labor feature of the League of Nations covenant.
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WILLIAM, an English poet and philologist, born in Dorsetshire, Feb. 22, 1800; wrote many books on philology; and three series of "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorsetshire Dialect" (1844, 1846 and 1863), and "Poems of Rural Life" (1866). He died in Winterbourne Came, in October, 1886.
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WILLIAM, JR., an American politician, born in 1866. He graduated from Harvard University in 1888 nver and became in the following year owner and editor of the "Albany Evening Journal." His influence and powerful personality made him one of the leading political figures in New York State. He was for several years practically the director of the Republican party in that State, although he at no time held office. His control continued until 1912, when he bitterly opposed the attempt to nominate Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican National Convention. Following the defeat of the Republican party in 1912 his influence lessened but was, however, gradually revived until he was active in the Republican Convention of 1920 and was one of the leading figures in the conservative element of that convention.
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