Bernhardt
ROSINE SARAH, a French actress, born in Paris, Oct. 22, 1844. At an early age her Jewish parents placed her in a convent at Versailles. When 14 years old she left the convent, and entered the Paris Conservatoire. In 1862 she made her debut at the Théâtre Français, in Racine's "Iphigéne" and Scribe's " Valerie," but, not SARAH BERNHARDT achieving a success, she retired for a time from the stage. Her first great success was as Marie de Neuberg, in Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," in January, 1867. Becoming very popular by her representations, notably in " Andromaque" and "La Sphinx ," she was recalled to the Français, and was soon recognized as the foremost actress in French tragedy. In 1879 she visited London with the company of the Comédie Française and was warmly received; in 1880, 1887, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1911 and 1913 she made successful appearances in the United States, and visited Switzerland, Holland, South America, Italy, Algeria, Australia, etc. In 1899 she appeared in a new rendering of Hamlet in Paris. Her most successful rôles were Theodora, Fedora, La Tosca and Cleopatra. She exhibited at the Paris Salon sculpture and painting and wrote two plays, "L'Aveu" (1888), and "Adrienne Lecouvreur" (1907). She was made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1916.
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Bernhardt, Sarah
bern'hart, Sarah (1844-), a French actress. She was of Jewish descent-her father, French, her mother, Dutch. She was born in Paris, but spent most of her childhood and youth in Amsterdam. Before Sarah was twenty years old she had won prizes for both tragedy and comedy at the Paris Conservatoire. Her career has been a brilliant one. She has acted in many European capitals, in the United States , South America , and Australia. Bernhardt is especially notable in roles requiring nervous tension and the display of passion. 2026 Editor's Note: "The Divine Sarah" became arguably the first international celebrity, touring the world and among the earliest stage actors captured on film. She was famously theatrical off stage too — she is said to have slept in a coffin — and in 1915 she had a leg amputated and simply went on performing , playing to troops near the front lines of the First World War. (Ed: BR 2026-06-02)
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Bernheim
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Bernina
a mountain of the Rhætian Alps, 13,290 feet high, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, with remarkable and extensive glaciers. Its summit was first attained in 1850. The Bernina Pass, which attains an elevation of 7,642 feet, and over which a carriage road was completed in 1864, leads from Pontresina to Poschiavo.
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Bernstein
HERMAN, an author born in Neustadt-Scherwindt, Poland, 1876; came to the United States in 1893. From 1908 to 1912 he traveled in various countries of Europe as correspondent of the New York Times," securing interviews with notables, especially one with Tolstoi that attracted wide attention. In 1915 he again visited Europe to investigate the condition of the Jev's in the war-stricken countries of eastern Europe. From Russia in 1917 he secured the "Willy-Nicky" correspondence between the Kaiser and the Czar. He was editor-in-chief of the "American Hebrew" from 1916.
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Berosus
a genus of beetles belong ing to the family hydrophilidæ. They have prominent eyes, a narrow thorax, a dusky yellow hue, with dark metallic bronze markings. They swim in ponds, often in an inverted position.
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Berquin
LOUIS DE (ber-kan'), the first Protestant martyr in France, born in 1490. He was a gentleman of Artois, savan a friend of Badius, the the savant. When, When , in 1523, the police began to seize Luther's works, with a view to suppressing Protestantism, they found among Berquin's books some manuscripts of his own writing that were pronounced heretical. As he refused to retract, he was thrown into prison. Francis I., whose counselor he was, obtained for him his freedom; and Erasmus, always his friend, tried in vain to prevent him from exposing his life in a useless
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Berri
or BERRY, CHARLES FERDINAND, DUKE OF, second son of the Count d'Artois (afterward Charles X.), born at Versailles, Jan. 24, 1778. In 1792 he fled with his father to Turin and served under him and Condé on the Rhine. In 1801 he went to Great Britain, and planned for the restoration of the Bourbons. In 1814 he landed at Cherbourg, and passed on to Paris, gaining many adherents to the royal cause; melted away when Napoleon but they landed from Elba, and the Count was compelled to retire to Ghent and Alost. Waterloo he returned to Paris, After and in 1816 married. He was assassinated by Louvel, a political fanatic, Feb. 14, 1820. The Duke had by his wife, Carolina Fernandina Louisa, eldest daughter of Francis, afterward King f daug the Two Sicilies, a daughter, Louise Marie Thérèse, afterward Duchess of Parma, and a posthumous son, Comte de Chambord.
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Berri (BARBIERS an acute disease)
or BARBIERS, an acute disease characterized by oppression of breathing, by general edema, by paralytic weakness, and by numbness of the lower extremities. The percentage of mortality, which used to be very high, has been greatly reduced in recent years. Although the exact cause of the malady has not yet been discovered-in spite of exhaustive research-it is now generally agreed that its origin is dietetic. It is believed that fish and rice are primarily responsible for the disease. It occurs frequently in Ceylon among the colored troops, and on some portions of the Indian coast, but spasmodically in all parts of the world.
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Berry
a succulent fruit, in which the seeds are immersed in a pulpy mass inclosed by a thin skin. Popularly it is applied to fruits like the strawberry, bearing external seeds on a pulpy receptacle, but not strictly berries.
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Berry
CANAL DE, one of the most important canals in France as regards the amount of its traffic; begins at Montluçon on the Cher, the chief trading center of the coal fields of the Allier; descends the Cher valley to St. Armand, proceeds E., and soon after branches, then one branch going N. E. and joining the lateral canal of the Loire about 9 miles N. W. of Nevers, the other branch proceeding N. and rejoining the valley of the Cher, and ultimately entering the Cher itself near St. Aignan, below which point the canalized Cher continues the line of navigation to Tours. Length of navigation 200 miles, of which 36½ miles belong to the canalized Cher. Constructed 1807-1841.
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