Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a knight mentioned by Gautier in the Conte du Graal. It is said that he was fastened to a tree by Kay and left hanging head downwards, until released by Perceval. On Bagommede's return to the court he challenged Kay, but was prevented by Arthur from slaying him.
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Joey, a friend of Mr. Dombey's in Dickens' novel, Dombey and Son . He is described as "a single gentleman, to-wit, a wooden featured, blue faced Major, with his eyes starting out of his head." He is proud of his friendship with Mr. Dombey, who uses Bagstock to further his own ends. He is constantly referring to himself as "Joe B.," "J. B.," "old Joey," "old Josh Bagstock," and so forth. He is apoplectic and gluttonous, and entirely selfish. "Old Joe is hardhearted, sir," he says of himself, "he's tough, sir, tough and de-vilish sly!"
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GREAT and Islands; the former between 22° and 26° N., 75° and 79° W., having S. and W. the Bahama old and new channels. On it are the islands of Providence, Andros, W. of W. and Exuma. The Little Bank, N. the foregoing, between 26° and 27° N., 77° and 79° W., has on it the Great Bahama and Abaco Islands.
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OLD and NEW, two American channels; the former separates the Great Bahama also called Bank and Cuba; the latter, the Gulf of Florida, is between the Great and Little Bahama Banks and Florida, and forms a part of the chan- Gulf Stream, which nel of the great flows here at the rate of from 2 to 5
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a seaport of Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Rio, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and and lying on a small bay, bearing the same name. The town and bay are about 50 miles W. of Havana, being commanded by a small fort. There are mines of coal and copper in the vicinity. A short distance to the S. are the sulphur springs of Aguacate. Pop. about 1,500. BAIÆ (bi'ē), an ancient Roman watering-place on the coast of Campania, 10 miles W. of Naples. Many of the wealthy Romans had country houses at Baiæ, which Horace preferred to all other places. Ruins of temples, baths, and villas still attract the attention of archæologists.
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("Brightness.") A mystical Hebrew treatise of the twelfth or thirteenth century, the work of a French rabbi, by name Isaac ben Abraham of Posquières, commonly called Isaac the Blind." (See Kabala). 66
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A town in Campania , on a small bay west of Naples, and opposite Puteoli, was situated in a beautiful country, which abounded in warm mineral springs. The baths of Baiae were the most celebrated in Italy, and the town itself was the favorite watering-place of the Romans. The whole country was studded with the palaces of the Roman nobles and emperors, which covered the coast from Baiae to Puteoli. The site of ancient Baiae is now for the most part covered by the sea. Balbus, L. Cornelius. Served under Pompey against Sertorius in Spain, and received from Pompey the Roman citizenship. He returned with Pompey to Rome, where he lived on intimate terms with Caesar as well as Pompey. In B. c. 56 he was accused of having illegally assumed the Roman citizenship; he was defended by Cicero, whose speech has come down to us, and was acquitted.
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son of Simeon, King of the Bulgarians, and a mighty magician, who could transform himself into a wolf whenever he desired. He could also adopt other shapes and render himself invisible. He is alluded to by Ninauld in his Lycanthropie (page 100).
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bi'kal, a lake in the south central part of Siberia. It lies in a mountainous region, 1,312 feet above the sea. It is about one-half as large as Lake Superior. It is the largest body of fresh water in Asia. R. S. Tarr gives the following figures: Area, 12,500 square miles; elevation, 1,312 feet; greatest depth, 4,550 feet. The lake is well stocked with sturgeon, salmon, and other fish. The natives also take large numbers of seals. Steep precipices or pine-clad slopes rise from its shores. The lake receives several small rivers, and discharges its waters through an outlet into the Yenisei, ultimately into the Arctic Ocean. It lies in the route of the great Siberian railway. At first, trains were carried across a distance of fifty miles or more by means of a steam ferry. In the winter a temporary track was laid on the ice. Travelers tell of riding thirty miles in open sleighs with the thermometer thirty below zero. One tourist describes the crossing as effected by means of seventy-five three-horse sleighs for first and second class passengers, and two hundred one-horse sleighs for third class passengers. A passage was maintained for the ferry as late as possible by means of a huge ice breaker. During the war with Japan, the Russian government succeeded in building a track around the south shore of the lake, thus avoiding serious delay in transportation. See Lakes; Ferry ; Siberia
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WILLIAM BALFOUR, an English explorer, born in the Orkney Islands, Aug. 27, 1825; joined the British navy, and was made Surgeon and Naturalist of the Niger Expedition, 1854. He took the command on the death of the senior officer, and explored the Niger for 250 miles. Another expedition, which started in 1857, passed two years in exploring, when the vessel was wrecked, and all the members, with the exception of Baikie, returned to England. With none but native assistants he formed a settlement at the confluence of the Benué and the Quorra, in which he was ruler, teacher, and physician, and within a few years he opened the Niger to navigation, made roads, established a market, etc. He died in Sierra Leone, Dec. 12, 1864.
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in legal proceedings, security given to obtain the temporary release of a prisoner, pending the determination of his guilt or innocence. The usual method of procedure is for persons of known integrity and means to sign a bond promising to pay the state a certain sum of money in case the prisoner should fail to appear when summoned to meet the charge against him. The amount of bail is fixed by the court. The prisoner is said to "give bail." Those who sign the bond "go his bail." The design is to prevent innocent persons from being imprisoned on false or malicious charges. Were it not for bail, it would be possible for an enemy to secure a temporary and oftentimes very embarrassing imprisonment by preferring a trumped up and false charge. The law of bail is framed on the assumption that it is better to allow many guilty to go free for a time than to imprison one innocent person. The Constitution of the United States provides that excessive bail shall not be required. In the case of a charge of flagrant crime, such as murder or treason, the court may, at its discretion, refuse to admit a criminal to bail. Going one's bail is an evidence of confidence, not to say of friendship and sympathy. Horace Greeley was assailed very bitterly and unjustly for going on the bond of Jefferson Davis.
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