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The, a sobriquet of James Montgomery Bailey, an American humorist and editor. He was born in Albany, New York , in 1841, and died in Danbury, Connecticut, 1894. He founded the Danbury News and was its editor for years. His jests and humorous articles were widely quoted. He wrote Life in Danbury, Danbury News Man's Almanac, They All Do It, and The Danbury Boom.
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FRANK (MRS. JULIA FRANKAU), a British authoress; born in 1864, she was educated largely by the daughter of Karl Marx, and in 1883 was married to Arthur Frankau. Most of her writings are novels, although she has contributed not a little to the "Saturday Review." Among her works "The Heart of a Child" (1908); are: "Sebastian" (1909); "The Story of Emma" (1910); "Joseph in Jeopardy" (1912); "Concert Pitch" (1913); "Full Swing" (1914). She died in 1916.
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properly FLORENT CARTON, a French playwright and dramatic artist; born in Fontainebleau in 1661. His best low comedies or farces were: "The Fashionable Chevalier"; "The Winsome Gardener." He presented village life with perfect truth, and was master of village patois. He died in 1725. Voltaire ranked him next after Molière for low comedy.
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ENRICO, Doge of Venice, to which high office he was chosen in 1192, when in his 87th year. He carried on the war with the Pisans and closed it by an advantageous peace. In 1201 the Crusaders applied to him for assistance, and on their promise to reduce the town of Zara, which had revolted, he agreed to help them. He accordingly undertook with them, in 1203, the siege of Constantinople, at which he greatly distinguished himself, and was the first who leaped on shore. It is said that he had the offer of the imperial crown, and refused it. He was created despot of Rumania, and died 1205, at the age of 97.
a patrician family of Venice, which traced its origin to the Roman era. Its most illustrious member was:
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the name of the second in dignity of the Danish orders instituted by King Waldemar in 1219.
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the portion of England allotted to the Danes by the Treaty of Wedmore in 878 A. D. It extended from the E. coast to a line which ran from the Thames a little below London to Chester on the Dee. DANES. See DENMARK.
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the prophet, a contemporary of Ezekiel; was born of a distinguished Hebrew family. In his youth, 605 b. c., he was carried captive to Babylon, and educated in the Babylonish court for the service of King Nebuchadnezzar. Thrown into the lions' den for conscientiously refusing to obey the king, he was miraculously preserved, and finally made primeminister in the court of the Persian king Darius. He ranks with what are called the "greater prophets." The book of the Old Testament which bears his name is divided into a historical and a prohetic part. Modern criticism generally regards it as written during the oppression Jews under Antiochus, about 170 B. C. It is partly in Chaldee.
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MOSES GRANT, an American educator, born in Boston in 1836. He graduated from Harvard in 1863 and entered the field of secondary education, in which he held a prominent part for over thirty years. He first served with the Everett School in Dorchester, and then for seventeen years was instructor of Latin in the Roxbury Latin School. For twelve years he was Headmaster of the Chauncy Hall School in Boston. His textbook, written with William C. Collier, is widely used in the early study of Latin.
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John F. (1790-1845), an English scientist. Born in London. Professor of chemistry in King's College, London, 1831. Daniell invented the first form of electric battery by which a steady current could be obtained for a considerable length of time. The Daniell cell consists of a copper plate immersed in a solution of copper sulphate in an outer glass jar, and a zinc plate immersed in sulphuric acid in an inner porous cup. The gravity cell used in telegraph stations is a modification of Daniell's, which dispenses with the porous cup. Daniell's Meteorological Essays was the first attempt made to account for all the then known phenomena of the atmosphere. He also published an essay on Artificial Climate. The Royal Society conferred upon him all of the medals, viz., three, which they had at their disposal.
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a member of a former Mormon secret society whose purpose it was to avenge wrongs committed by the "Gentiles" on the "Saints." They are said to have been organized about 1837. They derive their name from Jacob's blessing to his son Dan (Gen. xlix: 17).
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a village on a lake of the same name, 24 miles N. N. E. of Upsala, in Sweden, celebrated for its iron-mines, the second richest in Sweden, which have been worked uninterruptedly for upward of three centuries.
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the rampart built by the Danes about 808 across Sleswick, just N. of the Eider; the scene of fighting in 1849, and razed by the Germans in 1850.
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GEORGES JACQUES, a French revolutionist; born in Arcis-sur- Aube, Oct. 26, 1759. He was an advocate by profession, but became one of the most active among the demagogues of the After the im- Revolutionary period. ouis XVI, at Varennes, Louis prisonment of he took the lead in the meeting of Champde-Mars, which paved the way to the dethronement of the king. Danton's burly figure, stentorian voice, courage and self-confidence fitted him to dominate the revolutionists. He became one of the executive council and took active measures to defend Paris, threatened by the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick. He was afterward a member of the Convention and of the Committee of Public Safety, and was a chief promoter of all the sanguinary acts of that terrible period. At length a struggle for supremacy took place between him and Robespierre, in which the latter was suc- DANTON cessful, when Danton was sent to the guillotine, April 5, 1794.
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George Jacques (1759-1794), a leader of the French Revolution . He is described as a man of gigantic stature, with a voice that fairly shook the dome of the Assembly with its roar. He speedily became one of the small circle that brought Louis XVI , Queen Marie Antoinette, and scores of royalists to the guillotine. When the Prussians invaded France, Danton's courage saved the day. He and Robesierre fell out and distrusted each other. Each sought the other's downfall. Danton was arrested on a charge of conniving to bring back the royal family. He went stoutly to the fate to which he had condemned others. He gloried to the last in his part in the revolution. He gave expression to two regrets; one that he had been outwitted by Robespierre, the other that he should never see his wife again. See Robespierre ; French Revolution
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