These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Faber, Fabius Ambustus, Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus.
FREDERICK WILLIAM, WILLIAM, an English hymn-writer; born in Calverley, England, June 28, 1814. He was long in the Anglican priesthood, and wrote hymns of singular sweetness and spirituality; going over at last to Rome. Among his most familiar hymns are: "Hark, Hark, My Soul"; "O Paradise! O Paradise!"; "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy"; "Sweet Saviour Bless Us Ere We Go"; etc. He died in the Oratory, Brompton, Sept. 26, 1863.
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WILLIAM FREDERIC, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1860. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1880 and from the Albany Theological Seminary in 1883. In the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, and until 1892 was pastor of the First Church of Westfield, N. Y. In the latter year he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as rector 83 in churches in New York and Michigan. He was consecrated coadjutor-bishop of the Diocese of Montana in 1914, and became bishop in 1916. He wrote "The Church for the Times" (1891); "Henry VIII. and the Reformation in Relation to the Church of England" (1897); and was a frequent contributor to magazines on religious subjects.
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Johann (1817-1896), a noted manufacturer. He was born in Stein, six miles from Nuremberg. Faber is noted as the founder of the manufacture of lead-pencils on a large scale. In earlier days, lead-pencils were made by hand in a small way. Faber built up a large factory at Stein and practically monopolized the lead-pencil business in Europe. His methods are not known generally, as visitors were not admitted. As the business enlarged, offices were opened in the large cities. A branch factory established near Paris employed over 1,000 operatives. Eberhard Faber, a younger member of the family, established first, a selling office in New York City, and later, a factory in the vicinity.
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dictator, 350 B. C.
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consul 122 B. C.
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to whose name MAXI- MUS was added, twice dictator, conqueror of the Samnites and Etruscans, 323-280 B. C.. FABIUS GURGES, son of the preceding, consul of Rome. FABIUS PICTOR, the first writer of Roman history, 3d century, B. C. FABIUS MAXIMUS VERRUCOSUS, considered the greatest of his family, surmamed "Cunctator," "the Delayer," on account of his system of warfare. He died in 203 B. C. FABIUS MAXIMUS QUINTUS, son and next in office to the preceding, afterward consul. FABIUS MAXIMUS EMILIANUS, distinguished in the war of Persia and in Spain, consul 147 B. C. FABIUS MAXIMUS SERVILIANUS, pro-consul for Spain, censor 126 B. C.
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JEAN HENRI, a French entomologist and writer; born at Saint- Léons, Avignon, in 1823. For several years he taught in the Lycee of Avignon and afterward served as Professor of Physics at the College of Ajaccio. He retired from teaching, however, to devote himself entirely to the study of entomology and from 1879 to 1907 he devoted himself to writing the great work in ten volumes, entitled "Souvenirs entomologiques." This was crowned by the Institute. The greater part has been translated into English. He wrote "The Life of the Insects" (1910) and many other works. He was a corresponding member of the Institute and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Among his works translated into English are "Insect Life" (1901); "The Life and Love of the Insect" (1911); "Social Life in the Insect World" (1913); "The Life of the Spider"; and "The Life of the Fly" (1913).
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CAIUS, surnamed Lucinus, a Roman general who was twice consul and gained several victories over the Samnites and Lucanians. He was famed for his integrity and contempt of riches. This was shown during his embassy to Pyrrhus in 280 B. C., when he firmly withstood all the attempts of Pyrrhus to buy his service. When consul, he discovered to Pyrrhus a plot formed to poison him by his physician; and in gratitude Pyrrhus released the Roman prisoners without ransom. Fabricius was afterward censor, and endeavored to check the growing passion for luxury. He lived a simple life and died poor. FAÇADE (fa-sad'), the face or front of any building of importance. It may be applied to any side of a large quadrangular building embellished with sufficiently striking architectural features, but it is usually confined to the principal front, in which the chief entrance is most frequently, if not always, situated.
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a nerve of the seventh pair of cranial nerves, a motor nerve which supplies the muscles of expression on either side of the face. Paralysis of this nerve produces facial paralysis.
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a city of Italy, 20 miles from Ravenna. It was once well known for its manufacture of colored and glazed earthenware called FAIENCE (q. v.). Its chief industries are now the making of paper, silk twist, and fabrics. Faenza, the ancient Faventia, was at one period a town of the Boii, but afterward a municipium under the Romans, and was annexed to the States of the Church in the 15th century by Pope Alexander VI., in which condition it remained till 1860, when, with the Emelian provinces, it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. Pop. (1901) 22,239. FAEROE ISLANDS. See FAROE IS- LANDS.
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The. See Spenser
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The "parting gift of the fairies, of Gaelic origin. This may be of a pleasant or unpleasant nature-it may be death, or the conversion of a man who worked badly, was ugly, and of rude speech, into the best workman, the best looking man, and the best speaker in the place. -Campbell's Superstitions of the Scottish Highlands.
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a peculiar system of service in vogue in English public schools, as at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester. On entering school each boy is assigned as a fag or servant to an upper class man. He is required to black shoes, toast bread, brush clothing, run errands, chase balls, carry books; in short, to perform all sorts of menial services for his superior, under whom he is a sort of body servant. Under ideal conditions a little fellow is supposed to be very proud of the tall, distinguished student for whom he fags and from whom he receives protection in the rough and tumble of school life. Friendships formed in this way have continued through life. Dicky Steele, the author of The Tale of a Tub and promoter of The Spectator, was Joe Addison's fag at the Charterhouse School at London. If the truth were known, many an appointment to public position has been made by reason of an attachment formed when the candidate was a fag in a public school. On the other hand, the large students sometimes proved harsh and even brutal in their treatment of the little chaps entrusted to their care. The custom is less prevalent than it once was. An excellent account of fagging may be found in Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby. A mendacious servant in Sheridan's comedy of The Rivals is called "Fag."
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