Heredity
the transmission from parent to offspring of physical and intellectual characters.
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Single-source entries: H (27)
Each of these 14 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.
Hereford
the county-town of Herefordshire, England, 144 miles W. N. W. of London. Its noble cathedral was built between 1079 and 1535, and so exhibits every variety of style from Norman to Perpendicular.
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Heriot
. See Edinburgh
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Herkimer
a village of New York, the county-seat of Herkimer co. It is on the Mohawk river and on the Erie and Barge canals, and on the New York Central and Hudson River and the Otsego and Herkimer railroads. It is the center of an important dairying region and has manufactures of knit goods, office desks, beds, furniture, paper boxes, mattresses, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,520; (1920) 10,453.
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Herkomer
SIR HUBERT, an English painter; born in Waal, Bavaria, May 26, 1849. At an early age he settled with his parents in the United States and subsequently in England. He joined the Institute of Painters in Water Colors in 1871. His oil picture, "After the Toil of Day," in the Academy exhibition of 1873, was followed by his "Last Muster," which gained him the "grand medal of honor" at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. He was in 1879 elected an A. R. A. After 1880 he devoted much time to portraiture, and his portrait of Miss Grant is one of his many successes in that branch of art. He founded the Herkomer School of Art, at Bushey, in 1883; was elected a Royal Academician in 1890; was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford in 1885-1895; and was elected an Associate of the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1895. He died in 1914. town of Rumania, formerly capital of
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Hermann
a German chieftain. The liberator of Germany from Roman dominion. He lived about 18 B. C.-21 A. D. He entered the Roman army to learn the military art and was made a Roman citizen with the name of Arminius. Returning to his people, he organized a revolt. In the year 9 A. D. he fell upon the Roman Varus in the Teutoburg Forest and defeated him with great slaughter. He succeeded in keeping the Romans on the west side of the Rhine. In 1846 the Germans completed a Denkmal or monument on the highest point in the forest near the scene of Hermann's great victory. The base is an arched structure 100 feet in height. A heroic statue of Hermann in bronze stands on this substructure. The figure is 56 feet high, the point of his sword rises 30 feet above the top of the helmet, so that the total height of the monument is 186 feet. An interior gallery commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country. The exact site of the battle is not known. Naturally the name of Hermann is a great one among the Germans. Several monuments have been erected to his honor in the United States . One is at New Ulm, Minnesota.
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Hermann and Dorothea
a pastoral poem by the German Goethe, published in 1797. The poem is epical in character, and is sometimes classed as a domestic epic. It contains about 2,000 lines. The scene is laid in Germany, in Goethe's own time.
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Hermannstadt
a Transylvania, 370 It consists of an upper and a lower miles S. E. of Pest. town, the walls formerly surrounding which have only , towers, and bastions recently been stadt is the seat of a Greek archbishop demolished. Hermannand of a "Saxon" university. The fine Bruckenthal palace contains a picturegallery, numismatic, antiquarian, and mineral collections, and a library of 30,- 000 volumes. Tanning, wax-bleaching, and the making of cloth, paper, candles, sugar, and hats are carried on. Hermannstadt was originally the seat of a German colony, founded in the reign of Gesa II. (1141-1161), and was at first called Villa Hermanni. It endured several sieges from the Turks (1438 and 1442), as well as one from the followers of John Zapolya (1526). It also suffered at the hands of Gabriel Bathori in 1610, and again from both combatants during the Russo-Hungarian War of 1849. Pop. about 25,000.
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Herminius
A valiant Roman who defended the bridge with Cocles against the army of Porsenna. Lord Macaulay, in his noble prem Horatius , alludes to him as one of the dauntless three who defended the bridge against the host of Porsenna: "And out spake strong Herminius, Of Titian blood was he, 'I will abide on thy left side, And keep the bridge with thee."
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Hermione
A daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She was privately promised in marriage to Orestes , the son of Agamemnon , but her father, ignorant of the engagement, gave her hand to Pyrrhus , the son of Achilles , whose services he had experienced in the Trojan war.
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Hermitage Castle
(See Haunted Houses .) Herne, J.: A medium who was associated with Charles Williams (q.v.) during a part of the latter's career and who afterwards practised on his own account. Materialisation was a special feature of his séances. And Miss Florence Cook held her first materialisation séance in conjunction with Herne. He was one of the mediums present on the occasion of Mrs. Guppy's famous transit, and was himself on one occasion transported in like manner.
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Hermodorus
A philosopher of Ephesus who is said to have assisted, as interpreter, the Roman decemvirs in the composition of the ten tables of laws which had been collected in Greece.
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Hermosillo
a capital of the Mexican State of Sonora, in a fertile plain on the Rio Sonora, 50 miles N. of Guaymas. It has a mint and other government buildings, a bank of issue, sawmills, distilleries, and shoe and furniture factories, and a large export trade in wheat and wine. Pop. about 15,000.
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Hernia
the protrusion of some portion of the intestinal canal, or, in a more general sense, of any organ or part of an organ, from its natural place. It may arise from over-exertion, from a blow, etc. There are many varieties of hernia, as, the diaphragmatic, the enterovaginal, the mesenteric, the mesocolic, omental, perineal, the femoral, etc.; the most common of all is the inguinal, occurring in the groin. It may be direct or internal and oblique or external. When a hernia cannot be reduced, and, above all, when it becomes strangulated, it is apt to terminate in gangrene and death.
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