These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Consentes Dii, Conservative, Conservatives.
The twelve Etruscan gods who formed the council of Jupiter , consisting of six male and six female divinities. We do not know the names of all of them, but it is certain that Juno , Minerva, Summanus , Vulcan, Saturn, and Mars were among them.
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the act of preserving, maintaining, supporting, or protecting. The conservation of energy is a principle based on the general one that energy communicated to a body or system of bodies is never lost; it is merely distributed and continues to exist as potential energy, as motion or as heat. It now stands as one of the axioms of physics, and is sometimes called correlation of forces.
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as applied to one of the two great parties in English politics, was first used by J. W. Croker in an article in the "Quarterly" for January, 1830. Conservative began to supersede Tory about the time of the Reform Bill controversies. The plural form of the word has been assumed as a distinctive name by certain political parties in many nations. These parties are sometimes actually, and always avowedly, opposed to changes from old and established forms and practices. In United States history these names have never been in general use, but in Van Buren's administration the name of Conservatives was applied to those Democrats that at the special session of Congress, of September, 1837, opposed the establishment of the sub-treasury system. In the Congress that met in December, 1839, they had practically disappeared. The name was also assumed by Southern whites during the reconstruction period following the Civil War, to show their adherence to the old State governments, the abolition of which by Congress they opposed. In Virginia the name was in use until 1872. The name was also used at the North during this period. The Democrats applied it to themselves to draw moderate Republican votes.
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in English politics, a name applied to one of the opposing political parties. It was a new name for an old party. It was applied to the Tories in an article by J.W. Croker in the Quarterly Review for January, 1830. Macaulay, writing for the Edinburgh Review in 1832, calls the name a "new cant word." During the Reform Bill controversies the Tories won the new name of Conservatives fairly by the stubbornness with which they resisted change. Queen Victoria herself was in private a Conservative. The Conservatives made her Empress of India. Among the Conservative leaders were Peel, Derby, Disraeli, Salisbury, and Balfour, each of whom led one or more administrations. Of the Conservative ministries, that led by Disraeli was notable. By carrying out a brilliant foreign policy, he held a Conservative majority together in the House of Commons for six years, 1874-1880.
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in gardening, is a term generally applied by gardeners to plant-houses, in which the plants are raised in a bed or border without the use of pots, the building being frequently attached to a mansion.
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a name given on the European continent to a systematic school of musical instruction. In Great Britain the term is usually applied to foreign schools of music. Conservatories were originally benevolent establish ments attached to hospitals, or other charitable or religious institutions. In Naples there were formerly three conservatories for boys; in Venice four for girls; the Neapolitan group being reduced in 1818 to a single establishment under the name of the Royal College of Music. In Milan, a conservatory was established in 1808. In France the musical school established in connection with the Opera received its final organization in 1795 under the name of Conservatoire de Musique. The Conservatorium, founded at Leipzig in 1842 under the auspices of Mendelssohn, is one of the most influential in Germany. Institutions of the same description are established in the capitals and large cities of Europe and the United States.
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a form of medicine in which flowers, herbs, fruits, roots, are preserved as nearly as possible in their natural fresh state.
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a borough of Pennsylvania, in Montgomery co. It is on the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads, and on the Schuylkill river. It has rolling mills, foundries, furnaces, rubber works, cotton and woolen mills, and steel mills, and is an important manufacturing Pop. (1910) 7,480; (1920) center. 8,481.
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ARCHIBALD, a Scotch publisher; born in 1774. He was the original publisher of the "Edinburgh Review," the poems of Sir Walter Scott, the "Waverley Novels ," the "Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica," and other valuable works. In 1825 he pront nd jected the well-known series of works, "Constable's Miscellany. " In 1826, however, the firm was compelled to stop payment with liabilities exceeding $1,250,- 000. Sir Walter Scott , who was heavily involved, practically sacrificed his life in the endeavor to meet his creditors , and Constable himself died in 1827. an
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JOHN, English landscape painter; born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, June 11, 1776; son of a miller. He studied at the Royal Academy; began with portraits and history, but finally fixed upon landscape his vocation. The National Gallery has his best pictures , "The Cornfield," "The Valley Farm," and "The Haywain." In 1824 some of his pictures were exhibited at the Paris Salon, and excited great interest among the French artists. To these pictures of Constable a more powerful influence upon modern French landscape art has been ascribed than the facts will warrant. Paul Huet, Théodore Rousseau, and Diaz were all working before Constable's pictures went to France; but they were working in obscurity. Georges Michel , one of the greatest of these men (born 1763, died 1843), was entirely independent of Constable; but he was hardly known to his with it by a long covered bridge across the Rhine. The city has manufactories of cotton goods, carpets , chemicals, and sacking. Constance is said to have been founded in 378 A. D. by Constantius Chlorus as a bulwark against the Alemanni . In the Middle Ages, when it reached the height of its prosperity, it was frequently called Kostnitz. It was annexed to the Austrian dominions in 1549, and to Baden in 1805. Pop. about 30,000.
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