Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
DANIEL GREY- SOLON, an American pioneer; born in France about 1645; went to Canada about 1670, and became a trader and a leader of bushrangers. He chose the sites of Detroit and Fort William, fought in the Canadian war with the Senecas in 1687, and against the Iroquois in 1689, and was commander of Fort Frontenac in 1695. The city of Duluth is named after him.
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du mo're-a, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834-1896), an English artist and writer of novels. Du Maurier was of a French family which had been driven to England by the Revolution. He was educated at Paris. He is well known by his illustrations in Punch, Once a Week, Cornhill Magazine, and other periodicals. In 1891 he published Peter Ibbetson, a strange, dreamy story, involving an account of a supernatural power possessed by Ibbetson and his old sweetheart whereby they are able to meet in spirit. Trilby appeared in 1894 and became popular both as a story and in a dramatized form. Trilby is an artist's model who is made to sing by hypnotic power. Du Maurier's novels will be shortlived. His drawings for Punch, however, have permanent importance, since they are illustrative of the society of his time.
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FRANK VINCENT, an American artist, born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1865. He was educated in Paris and was awarded a medal at the Paris Salon in 1890. He also received medals at the Boston Exposition of 1892, the Atlanta Exposition of 1895, the Buffalo Exposition of 1901, and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. He was a member of the National Academy and of other art and architectural societies.
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SAMUEL FRANCIS, an American naval officer; born in Bergen Point, N. J., Sept. 27, 1803. He was commissioned a midshipman when 12 years old. During the Mexican War, being then a commander, he saw much active and gallant service on the California coast. In 1856 he was made a captain, and the following year was placed in command of the steam frigate "Minnesota," which conveyed Mr. Reed, the American minister, to China. In 1862 he was put in command of the South Atlantic blockading squadron. He sailed from Fort Monroe, Oct. 29, in his flagship the "Wabash," accompanied by a fleet of 50 sail; reached Port Royal Nov. 5, and two days after attacked two strong forts, on Hilton Head and Bay Point, which were evacuated after a severe engagement of four hours. He was promoted to rear-admiral in August, 1862. He greatly contributed to the organization of the Naval School at Annapolis, and was the author of a very remarkable report on the use of floating batteries for coast defense. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 23, 1865.
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One of the original founders of spiritualism in Dupuis France , and one of the first experimentalists in tableturning, either in that country or elsewhere. (See France).
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A little man, believed to be of fairy origin, who killed Sir Lachlan Mor M'Clean at the battle of Trai-Gruinard, in Islay, Scotland , in the year 1598. The story runs that this little man offered his services to Sir James Macdonald, the opponent of Sir Lachlan; and that the latter's death was caused by an arrow which struck him on the head, and was afterwards found to be an Elf-bolt. In reply to a question of Macdonald's the little man replied: "I am called Du-sith, and you were better to have me with you than against you."
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In every form of cerebral dissociation there is a disturbance of consciousness. Sometimes, and especially in the trance, there occurs what is known as "split consciousness," and the split may be so pronounced that the subject seems to have two or more distinct personalities. The secondary personality may differ from the primary in many ways, and possess entirely distinct intellectual and moral characteristics. The entranced subject may allude to his normal consciousness in the third person, may criticise its opinions and attitude, or even express direct antagonism towards it. The secondary personality sometimes alternates with the primary in such a way as to suggest that two spirits are struggling to possess the same physical organisation. Another peculiarity of this state is that whereas the normal consciousness generally knows nothing of the others, the secondary personalities have full knowledge of each other and of the normal conciousness. Dual personality is not confined to the trance state, but may arise spontaneously. R. L. Stevenson makes effective use of it in his Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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FORTRESS OF, one of a triangle of three strongholds built by the Russians in Galicia (the other two being Lutsk and Rovno )) and which were the ) object of heavy fighting during the operations on the eastern front during the World War. These fortifications enabled the Russians to maintain their lines of communication with the interior and made possible the transfer of forces through the protection they gave to the various railroad lines necessary for such a transfer. The fortress was captured and recaptured several times by the contending forces during the war. During the operations between the Russian Soviet Government and the Polish forces, in the summer of 1920, Dubno was captured by the Poles and was by them held for a short period.
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CAPE (dö-kä'tō) (ancient Leukate), an abrupt headland at the S. W. extremity of Leukes or Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands, dreaded by sailors for the fierce currents around it. On the summit are remains of a temple of Apollo, and from here criminals were anciently cast into the sea. Here, too, tradition fixes the scene of Sappho's fatal leap, and that of Artemisia of Halicarnassus.
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formerly a Dutch silver coin worth 3 gulden, 3 stivers, or $1.30. There were coins of the same name in Italy. In Tuscany its value was about $1.35, in Savoy slightly more, and in Venice about $1.18.
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MADAME. See SAND, GEORGE.
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JOHN, Duke of Northumberland, son of Sir Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII.; born in 1502. He was left by Henry VIII. one of the executors named in his will, as a kind of joint-regent during the minority of Edward VI. Under that prince he manifested the most insatiable ambition and obtained vast accessions of honors, power, The illness of the and emoluments. king, over whom he had gained complete ascendency, aroused his fears, and he endeavored to strengthen his interest by marrying his son, Lord Guildford Dudley, to Lady Jane Grey, descended from the younger sister of Henry VIII., and persuaded Edward to settle the crown on his kinswoman by will, to the exclusion of his two sisters, the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth. The death of the king, the abortive attempts to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, and the ruin of all those concerned in the scheme are among the most familiar events in the annals of England. He was beheaded in 1553.
LORD GUILDFORD, son of John, Duke of Northumberland, was married in 1553 to Lady Jane Grey, whose claim to the throne the duke intended to assert on the death of Edward VI. On the failure of the plot Lord Guildford was condemned to death, but the sentence was not carried into effect till the insurrection of Wyatt induced Mary to order his immediate execution ly to the French ideas that then inun- (1554).
ROBERT, Earl of Leicester. See LEICESTER.
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