Edelweis
a'del-vis, a species of flowering plant closely related to the everlasting. The name is German, signifying "noble white." Its real flowers are yellow and inconspicuous, inclosed by woolly leaves of a pure white. The edelweis is the emblem of purity. It is found in the snowy ranges of Switzerland, and is so much sought by Alpine tourists that it is in danger of extermination by persons who bring it to the hotels for sale. Efforts, not without success, have been made to raise edelweis in America as a plant for rockeries.
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Edfu
a town in upper Egypt. It is situated on the left bank of the Nile on the twenty-fifth parallel of north latitude. The town is noted for a celebrated Egyptian temple, "the most perfect existing example of an ancient Egyptian religious edifice." In plan, architecture, and sculpture, it is an imitation of the work done by the Pharoahs, but it was founded by one of the Ptolemies, 222 B. C. The entrance is a massive double gate or pylon, 250 feet wide and 115 feet high. A large court with a peristyle of columns lies within. Beyond this is a hall, and beyond this a second hall, and beyond the second hall is a sanctuary--a mystery of mysteries. The total length of the temple is 450 feet.
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Edgar Atheling
grandson of Edmund Ironside and son of Edward the Outlaw, was born in Hungary, where his father had been conveyed in infancy to escape the designs of Canute. After the battle of Hastings, Edgar (who had been brought to England in 1057) was proclaimed King of England by the Saxons, but made peace with William and accepted the Earldom of Oxford. Having been engaged in some conspiracy against the king he was forced to seek refuge in Scotland, where his sister Margaret became the wife of Malcolm Canmore. Edgar subsequently was reconciled with William and was allowed to live in Rouen, where a pension was assigned to him. Afterward with the sanction of William Rufus he undertook an expedition to Scotland for the purpose of displacing the usurper Donald Bane, in favor of his nephew Edgar, son of Malcolm Canmore, and in this He afterward object he succeeded. took part in Duke Robert's unsuccessful struggle with Henry I., but was allowed to spend the remainder of his life quietly in England.
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Edgeworth
MARIA, an English novelist born in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, Jan. 1, 1767. Her principal works are: "Castle Rackrent" (1800); "Early Lessons" (1801); "Belinda" (1801); "Moral Tales" (1801); "The Modern Griselda" (1804); "Leonora" (1806); "Tales of Fashionable Life" (1809-1812); "Patronage" (1814); "Ormond" (1817); and "Helen" (1834). She died in Edgeworthstown, Ireland, May 22, 1849.
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Edict of Nantes
an edict by which, on April 13, 1598, Henry IV. of France granted toleration to his Protestant subjects. bjects. It was revoked on Oct. 22, 1685, by Louis XIV., the unwise act causing the expatriation of about 50,000 Protestant families, who carried their industry to England and other lands.
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CORRESPONDENT LONDON TIMES J. B. GIBSON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY J. L. FRENCH
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Edmund (ST all the world as one)
ST. all the world as one of the greatest inventors of the 19th century. Among his more important inventions may be named the phonograph, a telephone for long distance transmission, a system of duplex telegraphy (which he subsequently developed into quadruplex and sextuplex transmission), the carbon telephone transmitter, the microtasimeter, the aerophone, megaphone, the incandescent electric lamp, the kinetoscope, and a storage battery for street railway cars and automobiles. In 1913 by synchronizing the phonograph and kinetoscope he produced talking moving pictures; but the invention is still imperfect. In 1878 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, a commander of the Legion in 1889, and was the recipient of the insignia of a grand officer of the Crown of Italy bestowed the same year by King Humbert.
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Edmund (ST King of the East Angles)
ST., King of the East Angles, began to reign in 855; was revered by his subjects for his justice and piety. In 870 his kingdom was invaded, and he himself slain, by the Danes. The Church made him a martyr, and a town (Bury St. Edmunds) grew up round the place of his sepulture. EDMUND I., King of England, an able and spirited prince; succeeded his brother Athelstan in 940. He conquered Cumbria, which he bestowed on Malcolm, ing of Scotland, on condition of doing homage for it to himself. He was slain at a banquet May 26, 946. EDMUND II., surnamed Ironside, King of England, was the eldest son of Ethelred II., and was born in 989. He was chosen king in 1016, Canute having been already elected king by another party. He won several victories over Canute, but was defeated at Assandum in Essex, and forced to surrender the midland and N. counties to Canute. He died after a reign of only seven months.
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Edmunds
GEORGE FRANKLIN, an American lawyer; born in Richmond, Vt., Feb. 1, 1828; received a common school education; began practicing law in 1849; and two years later removed to Burlington, Vt. In 1866 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill an unexpired term, and was thrice re-elected for full terms. He was the author of the act of March 22, 1882, known as the "Edmunds Act," which provided for the suppression of polygamy in Utah and the disfranchisement of any person convicted of practicing it. He was also the author of the "Anti-trust Law" of 1890. During the term of President Arthur he was president pro tempore of the Senate. In 1897 he became chairman of the Monetary Commission which had been appointed by the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Conference. After this service Mr. Edmunds returned to the profession of the law. He died in 1919.
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Edred
King of England, son of Edward the Elder, succeeded to the throne on the murder of his brother, Edmund I., in May, 946. He quelled a rebellion of the Northumbrian Danes, and died in 955.
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Edson
CYRUS, an American bacteriologist; born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1857; was graduated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1881 and in the following year was appointed a sanitary inspector. In 1893- 1895 he was health commissioner of New York. Dr. Edson discovered a new treatment for consumption, malaria, and other germ diseases, in 1896, which he named aseptolin. He published about 80 medical and sanitary papers, and invented many surgical instruments. He died in New York, N. Y., in 1903.
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