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a district of France, in Savoy, S. of the Lake of Geneva. In the 11th century Chablais passed from the possession of the House of Burgundy to that of Savoy, and was finally ceded to France with the rest of Savoy in 1860. See TCHAD. CHAD.
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ST. (CEADDA), born in Northumbria, became a pupil of St. Aidan, spent part of his youth in Ireland, and in 666 became Bishop of York. Doubt having been cast on the validity of his consecration, he withdrew in 669, but was immediately made Bishop of at Lichfield. He Mercia, fixing the see died in 672, after a life eminent for humility and sanctity.
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a town in Delaware co., Pa.; on Brandywine creek; 30 miles S. W. of Philadelphia. The battle of Brar.dywine was fought here, Sept. 11, 1777.
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JOHN WHITE, an American writer and Unitarian clergyman, born in Marblehead, Mass., Oct. 19, 1840. His radical sermons attracted attention, and he was a liberal contributor to current literature. Among his works are: "A Book of Poems"; "The Bible of To-day"; "Origin and Destiny"; "A Dar- CHÆRONEA ing Faith"; "The Man Jesus"; "The Faith of Reason"; "Old and New Unitarian Belief"; "The Power of an Endless Life," and others. He died Dec. 11, 1904.
FRENCH ENSOR, an American naval officer, born in Morgantown, W. Va., Feb. 29, 1844. He graduat the United States Naval Academy in 1866, and became a captain in 1897. During the war with Spain he commanded the armored cruiser "New York," ork," the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron, and was chief-of-staff to Admiral Sampson. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1903, retired in 1906, and died in 1919.
GEORGE WHITFIELD, an American musician, born in Lowell, Mass., Nov. 13, 1854. He was graduated at the Leipsic Conservatory, and in 1897 became director of the New England Conservatory of Music. He has won distinction as a composer with "Tabasco," a comic opera; "Jubilee," a symphony; "Columbian Ode," a chorus, and with other compositions. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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A city of Boeotia celebrated for a great battle fought there in which the Athenians were defeated by the Boeotians, B. C. 447, and for the victory which Philip of Macedonia obtained there over the confederate armies of the Thebans and Athenians, B. C. 338. It was the birthplace of Plutarch. Milton in one of his sonnets alludes to the place : "That dishonest victory, At Chaeronea fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." Isocrates is the old man eloquent thus alluded to.
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ADNA ROMANZA, an American military officer, born in Orwell, O., April 14, 1842. He received a public ohe school education; entered the regular ular army as a private, July 22, 1861; became a captain, Oct. 12, 1867; and colonel, May 8, 1899. On May 4, 1898, he was commissioned Brigadier-General of volunteers for the war with Spain; on July promoted to Major- 8, following, was promot General; and on April 13, 1899, was honorably discharged under this commission. On the last mentioned date he was reappointed a Brigadier-General of volunteers, and on July 19, 1900, the President, having selected him to command the American military forces in China, commissioned him a Major-General of volunteers. In 1901-1902 General Chaffee was military governor of the Philippines, in 1902- 1903 commander of the Department of the East, in 1904-1906 Chief of Staff of the United States Army. In the latter year, after 40 years' successful and distinguished service, he was retired with the rank of Lieutenant-General. He died Nov. 1, 1914.
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a European bird, so called because it delights in chaff, and is by some much admired for its song. This well-known and beautiful bird is locally called spink, beech-finch, pink, twink, skelly, shell-apple, horse-finch, scobby, y, and shilfa. It is the Fringilla s. It makes a cœlebs of ornithologists. beautiful nest, with four or five eggs, bluish-white, tinged with pink and with spots and streaks of purplish red.
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EUGENE WILDER, American temperance advocate; born in East 852. He practiced iced Troy, Wis., Nov. 1, 1852. law at Waukesha, Wis., from 1876 to wat 1900. From 1901 to 1904 he was superintendent of the Washingtonian Home, Chicago. He was active in the early stages of the Prohibition movement, both as a speaker and an organizer. His prominence in the movement led to his selection as candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898. His party chose him as its presidential nominee in 1908 and 1912. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1909. He became a resident of Arizona in 1909. Among his writ- "Lives of the Presidents" ings are (1896); "Lincoln, the Man of Sorrows" (1908), and "Washington as a Statesman" (1909).. (chāgōs), CHAGOS ISLANDS a group of islands in the Indian Ocean belonging to Great Britain; a S. extension of the Maldive Islands. The largest, called Diego Garcia Great or Chagos, 100 miles S. of the main group, is about 15 miles long by 3 broad. They are scantily peopled, and the chief product is cocoa-nut oil. Administratively they are attached to Mauritius. Area, about 76 square miles.
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a town of the Republic of Panama, on the N. coast of the Isthmus of Panama, at the mouth of the Chagres river. It is a poor place, with a harbor for vessels drawing from 10 to 12 feet of water. The river of the same name rises about 10 miles N. E. of Panama, makes an immense bend round to the N. E., and enters the Caribbean Sea. Though toward its mouth it varies in depth from 16 to 30 feet, it is yet, by reason at once of its rapidity and its falls, but little available for navigation. The route of the Panama Canal is by the valley of the Chagres_for part of its The water of the Chagres is course. used to operate the locks of the PANAMA CANAL (q. v.)
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An evil spirit believed in by the Continental Gypsies . It has the form of a hedgehog, is yellow in colour, and is a foot and a half in length and a span in breadth. " I am certain," says Wlislocki, " that this creature is none other than the equally demoniac being called Harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of Northwestern India . Horses are the special prey of the Chagrin , who rides them into a state of exhaustion, as does the Guecubu (q.v.) of Chili. The next day they appear sick and weary, with tangled manes and bathed in sweat. When this is observed they are tethered to a stake which has been rubbed with garlic juice, then a red thread is laid on the ground in the form of a cross, or else some of the hair of the animal is mixed with salt, meal and the blood of a bat and cooked to bread, with which the hoof of the horse is smeared. The empty vessel which contained the mixture is put in the trunk of a high tree while these words are uttered : 66 Tarry, pipkin, in this tree, Till such time as full ye be."
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