These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Dinwiddie, Diocletian, Diocletian.
ROBERT, a official and lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1752-1758; born in Scotland, about 1690. During his official career he recommended the annexation of the Ohio Valley and the erection of forts to secure the W. frontier against the French. He was one of the most earnest supporters of the French and Indian War, which began about 1753 and lasted 10 years. He died in Clifton, England, Aug. 1, 1770.
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BATHS OF frontiers, and Roman power restored from Britain to Egypt. In 305, in conjunction with Maximian, he resigned the imperial dignity at Nicomedia, and retired to Salona in Dalmatia, where he died in 313. In the latter part of his reign he was induced to sanction a persecution of the Christians.
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BATHS OF. See BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN.
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a genus of toleostean fish, family Gymnodontes, order Plectognathi, deriving their name from the fact that the ivory-clad terminations of the jaws show no suture, and the fish thus appear to possess but two teeth. The body, as in other members of the family, can be inflated with air till the creature floats on the surface of the water under side uppermost; it is likewise covered with ossifications in the skin. The rotundity of these fish has earned for them the name of globe-fish, or prickly globe-fish, and sea hedgehog. The four species of diodon are found in all the seas between the tropics, and range to the Cape of Good Hope. The largest species (D. hystrix) attains the length of two feet six inches.
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a native of Agyrium, in Sicily, who wrote a "Universal History" in 40 books, of which only 15 books and a few fragments remain. He flourished about B. C. 10.
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An Epicurean philosopher, born in Cilicia. He wrote the lives of the philosophers in ten books. This work contains an accurate account of the ancient philosophers, and is replete with anecdotes respecting them. It is compiled, however, without any plan, method, or precision, though neatness and conciseness are observable in it. 2026 Editor's Note: Though compiled without critical evaluation and often focusing on insignificant biographical details, Diogenes Laërtius's work has become the foremost surviving source on Greek philosophy due to the loss of primary sources on which he relied. Unlike many ancient secondary sources, he tends to report philosophical teachings without reinterpreting them, making his accounts often closer to the original sources despite his methodological limitations. (Ed: BR 2026-06-20)
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a group of three small islands in Bering's Strait, and midway between Asia and America. DINOTHERIUM
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A king of Thrace, son of Mars and Cyrene, who fed his horses with human flesh. Hercules destroyed Diomedes, and gave him to his own horses to be devoured.
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A son of Tydeus and Deiphyle, was king of Aetolia , and one of the bravest of the Grecian chiefs in the Trojan war. He often engaged Hector and Aeneas , and obtained much military glory.
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A Syracusan, son of Hipparina, famous for his power and abilities. He was related to Dionysius the First, who constantly advised with him, and at whose court he obtained great popularity. He was assassinated 354 years before the Christian era by one of his familiar friends. His death was greatly lamented by the Syracusans, who raised a IOI monument to his memory. When Dionysius the Second ascended the throne he banished Dion, who collected some forces, and in three days made himself master of Syracuse.
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A native of Nicaea in Bithynia , who was raised to some of the greatest offices of state in the Roman empire. He is celebrated as the writer of a history of Rome which occupied him twelve years in composing. 2026 Editor's Note: While this text states the history occupied him twelve years, modern scholarship indicates Cassius Dio actually spent 22 years writing his 80-volume work. His history spans approximately 1,000 years, from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Severus Alexander in 229 AD. Portions of the original text are lost, but the narrative survives through summaries by later Byzantine chroniclers like Xiphilinus and Zonaras . (Ed: BR 2026-06-21)
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Surnamed the goldenmouthed, on account of his eloquence. There are extant eighty of his orations; but they are rather essays on political, moral, and philosophical subjects than real orations.
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or DIONYSOS (di-ō-ni' sus), the Greek god of wine, son of Zeus and Semele. Zeus appearing to Semele in thunder and lightning so affrighted her as to cause the premature bir birth of Dionysus. Zeus carried the babe in his thigh, and when it came to maturity placed it in Ino's care. Dionysus wandered over the world teaching the cultivation of the vine. One of his surnames was Bacchus.
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that branch of geometrical opt optics which treats of the transmission of rays of light from one medium into another differing in kind. It consists of the results of the application of geometry to ascertain in particular cases the action of what are called the laws of refraction.
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a granite-like rock, consisting of hornblende and albite. It is grayish-white to nearly black in color. It derives its name from being unmistakably or clearly defined, as distinguished from dolerite. DIOSCOREACEÆ, a natural order of plants belonging to the class Dictyogens, consisting of twining shrubs. Lindley enumerates six genera and 110 species, Testudinaria Elephantipes is the tortoise plant of the Cape, or elephant's-foot. Tamus communis, black bryony, is common in hedge-rows.
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a genus of plants, belonging to the Rutaceæ or rue family. They are small shrubs with white or red flowers; leaves alternate or opposite, simple. They are remarkable for their overpowering and penetrating odor, arising from the presence of a yellowish volatile oil. They are the Bucku plants of the Cape of Good Hope. The plant has been employed in chronic affections of the bladder and urinary organs in general, and has also been administered in cholera.
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a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Ebenaceæ. They consist of trees and shrubs, with white or pale yellow flowers. D. lotos is the Indian date plum, and is supposed by some to be the lotus of the ancients. The trees of several of the species furnish ebony wood. The fruit of D. kaki is occasionally brought from China as a dry sweetmeat, and D. virginiana is the date plum, the bark of which is employed as a febrifuge, along the Mississippi, in cases of cholera infantum and diarrhea. A kind of cider has been made from this fruit, and a spirituous liquor distilled from its fermented infusion.
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