These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bassareus, Basset, Bassett.
A surname of Dionysus, probably derived from bassaris, a fox-skin, worn by the god himself and the Maenads in Thrace. Hence Bassaris was the name of a female 2026 Editor's Note: Bassareus is an epithet of Dionysus with evidence dating to Mycenaean Greece in the 2nd millennium BCE. This makes it one of the oldest attested epithets of the god, predating Classical Greek sources by over a thousand years. (Ed: BR 2026-06-17)
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(French, lowland), the name of the capitals of St. island, British West Indies Christopher (pop. about 9,000), and of Guadeloupe, the French West Indian island (pop. about 8,000).
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a game at cards, played somewhat similar to the modern faro. It is of Venetian inv invention, and was formerly much played in France.
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a ment, the tenor of the clarionet family, having more than three octaves in its compass, extending upward from F below the bass stave. Unlike the clarionet it has a bell-mouth of metal.
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JOHN SPENCER, American historian, born in Tarboro, N. C., Sept. 10, 1867; graduated at Trinity College, Durham, N. C., in 1888, and took a Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins in 1894. He became professor at Trinity College, and College. His works tutional Beginnings in "Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina," "Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina," "Slavery in the State of North Carolina," "The War of the Regulation," "The Federalist System", (190 (1906); "Life of Andrew History U. S." Jackson" (1911); "Short (1916); "Story of the Great War" (1920); etc.
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or BASRA, a town of former Asiatic Turkey, the capital of the vilayet of the same name (area, 53,580 square miles; pop. about 785,000), on the W. bank of the Euphrates, here called the Shat-el-Arab, 56 miles from its mouth in the Persian Gulf. The river is divided into a number of channels, and, by evaporation and frequent overflowing, makes the climate very unhealthful. Most of the houses are low huts, built of unburned bricks. The population, which had sunk to a few thousand, greatly increased when the British established the Tigris and Euphrates Steamship Company and is now about 60,000. A good business is done in the exchange of the productions of Turkey and Persia for Indian and European goods, particularly articles of British manufacture. The town has become the principal port of Mesopotamia. Bassors, was founded in 636 by the Caliph Omar, and soon became (bäs-älp), (Lower one of the most famous and opulent cities of the East. The possession of it has been the subject of many contests Nov. 23, 1914, British forces defeated and routed the Turks near the city and occupied Basra. As a result of the treaty of peace with Turkey Basra became part of the independent State of Mesopotamia under a British mandate.
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the former capital of sisted of 82 old soldiers and 33 Swiss. Negotiations with the governor of the prison having failed, the mob cut the chains of the drawbridge and a contest took place, in which one of the besieged and 150 of the people were killed or severely wounded. The arrival of a portion of the troops which had already joined the people, with four field-pieces, turned the fortune of the conflict in favor of the besiegers. Delaunay, the governor-who had been prevented by one of the officers when on the point of blowing the fortress into the air-permitted the second drawbridge to be lowered, and the people rushed in, killing Delaunay himself and several of his officers. The destruction commenced on the following day, amid the thunder of cannon and the pealing of the Te Deum. This event, in itself apparently of no great moment, leading only to the release of three prisoners, broke the spirit of the court party and changed the current of events in France. The anniversary of the fall of the Bastille has been regularly observed since France last became a Republic.
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a projecting mass of earth or masonry at the angle of a fortification, having two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that every part of it may be defended by the flank fire of some other part of the fort. The flanks of adjacent bastions are connected by a curtain. The distance between two such flanks is termed the gorge. A detached bastion is called a lunette. Also: (a) A composed bastion is one which has two sides of the interior polygon very irregular, with the effect of making the gorges also irregular. (b) A cut bastion is one which has a re-entering angle instead of a point. (c) A deformed bastion is one in which the irregularity of the lines and angles prevents the structure from having a regular form. (d) A demibastion is a bastion composed of one face only, with but a single flank and a demigorge. (e) A double bastion is a bastion raised on the plane of another one. (f) A flat bastion is one erected in the middle of a curtain when the latter is too long to be protected by the bastions at its ends. (g) A hollow bastion is one hollow in the interior. (h) A regular bastion is one so planned as to possess the true proportion of its faces, flanks, and gorges. (i) A solid bastion is one solid throughout its entire structure.
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a native province and British South African territory, between the provinces of Orange Free State, Natal and Cape of Good Hope. The Basutos belong chiefly to the great stem of the Bechuanas, and have made greater advances in civilization than perhaps any other South African race. In 1866 the Basutos, who had lived under a semiprotectorate of the British since 1848, 140, were proclaimed British subjects, their country placed under the government of an agent, and in 1871 it was joined to Cape Colony. In 1879 the attempted enforcement of an act passed for the disarmament of the native tribes caused a revolt under the chief Moirosi, which the Cape forces were unable to put down. When peace was restored Basutoland was disannexed from Cape Colony (1884), and is now governed by a resident commissioner under the High Commissioner for South Africa. Basutoland has an area of about 11,700 square miles, much of it covered with grass and there is but little wood. The climate is pleasant. Capital, Maseru. The chief products are wool, wheat, mealies, and Kaffir corn. The natives keep large herds of cattle. The revolt in Basutoland led by Masupha came to an end Feb. 1, 1898. In 1903 it became a member of the South African Customs Union. Pop. about 405,000.
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