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or HERISTAL, a city of Belgium in the province of Liège. It is on the left bank of the Meuse river. It is an important iron and steel center and has munition works, manufactures of bicycles, etc. In the vicinity are important coal mines. Pop. about 23,000.
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ALBERT, an American artist, born in New York City in 1871. He studied in New York and in Paris, received honorable mention in the Paris Salon in 1890 and several medals and prizes for excellency in painting. He mural was especially eminent as a painter and was a member of many art and architectural societies.
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the county town of Hertfordshire, England, 26 miles N. of London; on the Lea river. It contains few buildings of any architectural importance, save one ancient church; but there is a town hall (1768), and on London Road is a preparatory school in connection with Christ's Hospital, London. A considerable trade is carried on in corn, malt, and flour. Of the old castle of Hertford, commenced by Edward the Elder about 905 to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the Danes, and strengthened by William the Conqueror, only a small portion now remains. Pop. (1918) 10,384.
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a county of England, bounded on the E. by Essex, on the ' S .. by Middlesex, on the W. by Buckingham and Bedford, and on the N. by Cambridge. It has an area of about 630 square miles. Agriculture is the chief industry. The capital is Hertford.
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GEORG COUNT VON, was for many years professor of history at Sens, but the publication of antimilitarist articles in 1901 brought about his dismissal. He was imprisoned in 1905 and several times thereafter for opposing compulsory military service. Public opinion, however, brought about his release. He published a paper called He "La Guerre Sociale" in which he voiced his anti-national views. He encouraged strikes among workmen and upheld sabotage; also wrote several books attacking organized government; and was probably the most radical and outspoken of French Socialists. However, when France was drawn into the war in 1914, he heartily supported the Government.
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JOSEPH HERMAN, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew congregations of the British Empire since 1913. He was born at Rebrin, Hungary, in 1872, and emigrated as child to New York, where he was educated. Rabbi at Syracuse, N. Y., till 1898, and at till 1911. He Johannesburg from 1898 halsburg Public Library, founder of the Jewish Board of Deputies for the Transvaal, and professor of philosophy at the Transvaal University College. He was rabbi of the Congregation Arach Chayim, New York, in 1912. His works include: "Ethical System of James Martineau"; Bachya Jewish " , Thomas à Kempis"; "The Jew in South Africa"; "Book of Jewish Thoughts," etc. HERVÉ, GUSTAVE, a French Socialist, born near Brest in 1871. He
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WALTER LOWRIE, an American educator born at Mount Vernon, O., in 1862. He graduated from Princeton University in 1886. For sevcht Latin and Greek in eral years he taught secondary schools and became professor of history and institutes of education at Teachers College, New York, and was dean of the faculty of this institution from 1889 to 1891. In 1891 and 1892 he was acting president and president from 1892 to 1897. He filled several responsible positions in the educational system of New York, and wrote much on educational subjects, including "Picture Work" (1896); "Daily Lesson (1912); and "Introductory Plans" Second Reader" (1914). HERVEY ARCHIPELAGO. See COOK ISLANDS.
JAMES, an English author; born in Hardingstone, near Northampton, England, Feb. 26, 1714. He was educated at Oxford, and then took orders. The best of his works were Contemplations" "Meditations and (1746), including his most famous production, "Meditations among the Tombs." He died Dec. 25, 1758.
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or HERSEK (her'sek), a former province of the Ottoman Empire, nominally forming (with the exception of Ca Castelnuova, and some adjoining districts) a part of the eyalet or pashalic of Bosnia; bounded N. by Bosnia, S. by Montenegro, Bosnia, and W. by Dalmatia; area 3,616 square miles; pop. about 300.000. Capital, Mostar; pop. about 20,000. Its political and and ethnographical characters coincide with those of Bosnia, though it differs in physical character. Herzegovina was occupied in 1878 under the Berlin treaty, and the government was administered by Austria-Hungary until October, 1908, when the dual monarchy extended full sovereignty over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Powers were forced to acquiesce in the repudiation of the Berlin treaty, Serbia protesting. With the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the European War of 1914-1918, Herzegovina, by the Peace Treaty of 1919, becomes a province of Jugoslavia.
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THEODOR, founder of the Zionist movement, born in Budapest in 1860. He studied law, engaged in literary work and was literary editor of the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse." In 1896 he published "Der Judenstaat," which advocated the establishment of a selfgoverning Jewish state in Palestine. He soon became the leader of the Zionist movement which was heartily supported throughout the world. Until his death in 1904 he devoted his time and energy in furthering this movement which became a reality in 1920. 1
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a celebrated city of the Amorites, 20 miles E. of the mouth of the Jordan (Josh. ix:10; xiii:17). Its ruins are now called Hesban, and cover the sides of a hill 7 miles N. of Medeba.
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A celebrated poet, born at Ascra in Boeotia . He lived in the age of Homer, and obtained a poetical prize in competition with him, according to Varro and Plutarch. Quintilian, Philostratus , and others maintain that Hesiod lived before the age of Homer. Hesiod, without possessing the sublimity of Homer, is admired for the elegance of his diction.
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A daughter of Laodemon, king of Troy. It was her fate to be exposed to a sea monster, to whom the Trojans presented yearly a young girl to appease the resentment of Apollo and Neptune, whom Laodemon had offended. Hercules undertook to rescue her, and, attacking the monster just as he was about to devour her, killed him with his club. Hesperia (The Western Land). The name given by the Greek poets to Italy, because it lay west of Greece. In imitation of them the Roman poets gave the name Hesperia to Spain.
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