Each of these 17 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.
One of the most celebrated Athenian poets of the old comedy, and a contemporary of Aristophanes , was born about B. c. 446, and died about 411. The common story that Alcibiades threw him into the sea out of revenge is not true.
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a geographical word formed from Europe-Asia. It is a term used by geographers to denote the land mass of Europe and Asia between which there is no natural line of division. The want of a natural boundary is emphasized by the need of such expressions as Russia-in-Europe, Russia-in-Asia, Turkey-in-Europe, and Turkey-in-Asia. The combined area of Eurasia is 18,265,000 square miles. Population, 1,232,200,000.
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a half-caste of India, particularly one born of a European father and a Hindu mother. The name was applied originally to the descendants of Portuguese officers, but it has become general in its application to persons half European and half Asiatic. The Eurasians are most numerous in the capital cities, as Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. The problem of providing for an element that is neither native nor European may be inferred from the following passages quoted by the Century from the Travels of G. A. Mackey: The Eurasian girl is often pretty and graceful. . . . What if upon her lips there hung the accents of her tchi-tchi tongue? . . . The shovel-hats are surprised that the Eurasian does not become a missionary, or a schoolmaster, or a policeman, or something of the sort. The native papers say, "Deport him"; the white prints say, "Make him a soldier"; and the Eurasian himself says, "Make me a Commissioner, give me a pension."
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Eurus The southeast wind, sometimes the east wind. Eurylochus A companion of Ulysses , who was the only one that escaped from the house of Circe when his friends were metamorphosed into swine. Euterpe One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne . She presided over music.
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a genus of plants of the water-lily order, growing in India and China, where the floury seeds of some species are used as food.
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An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus. He, however, went over to Cyrus, and betrayed the whole matter to him. In consequence of this treachery his name passed into a proverb among the Greeks.
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A son of Aristodemus, who lived in perpetual dissension with his twin brother Procles while they both sat on the Spartan throne. The descendants of Eurysthenes were called Eurysthenidae, and those of Procles, Proclidae.
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A king of Argos and Mycenae , son of Sthenelus and Nicippe. Juno hastened his birth by two months that he might come into the world before Hercules , the son of Alcmena , as the younger of the two was doomed by Jupiter to be subservient to the other. This natural right was cruelly exercised by Eurystheus, who was jealous of the fame of Hercules, and who, to destroy him, imposed upon him the most dangerous enterprises, known as the Twelve Labors of Hercules, all of which were successfully accomplished.
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in anatomy, a canal leading from the pharynx to the tympanum of the ear. See EAR.
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a small tributary of the Santee river in Clarendon co., S. C. It is noted for the battle fought on its banks in 1781, between about 2,000 Americans under General Greene, and about 2,300 British under Colonel Stuart. The latter were defeated and driven from their camp but returned and Greene was compelled to retire. In the night, however, the British retreated toward Charleston, leaving 138 killed and wounded and about 500 prisoners. The Americans lost about 550 in killed, wounded and missing.
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a term employed to describe painless methods of inducing death. The subject is chiefly of interest in respect to the close of illnesses in which the death agony is likely to be prolonged, and methods of easing pain in such cases by narcotics and similar means are regarded as admissible. The actual hastening of death in an apparently incurable illness is, however, a graver matter, and the weight of ethics, law and religion is strongly against such action, which is regarded as tantamount to actual slaying. The adage that while there is life there is hope expresses the fundamental principle opposed to euthanasia, and the cases are numerous of ultimate recovery on the part of a patient who has been doomed by expert opinion. Latin rope.
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. See Black Sea
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Son of Hermes, is said to have led a colony, about sixty years before the Trojan war, from Creadia into Italy, and there to have built a town, Pallantium, on the Tiber, which was afterwards incorporated with Rome. Evergetes (The Benefactor). A title of honor conferred by the Greek states upon those from whom they had received benefits.
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a term often used to qualify certain theological views, especially strict views on the question of the atonement, justification by faith, the nspiration and authority of the Scripinspira tures, and allied doctrines. In England the so-called Low Church party is evangelical in its views. In a more general sense the word implies a peculiar fervency and earnestness in insisting on such doctrines as regeneration, redemption, etc. The "Evangelical Church" is the official title of the Established Church of Prussia, formed in 1817 by the union of Lutherans and Calvinists.
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an association of members of different sections of the Christian Church, organized in London in 1846, to lend its influence in favor of evangelical doctrines (see EVAN- GELICAL), religious union and liberty, and against superstition and unbelief. The alliance has branches throughout the world.
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a body of American Christians, chiefly of German descent, established about the beginning of the 19th century. In form of government and mode of worship it generally agrees with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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the name of a religious sect, also familiarly known as the Morisonians, from the Rev. James Morison, its originator. It took rise in Scotland in 1840, and three years afterward organized itself as a separate Christian denomination. The Morisonians maintain the universality of the atonement, combining with this the doctrine of eternal personal and unconditional election, and denying that anyone will be condemned for Adam's fall.
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