Heir
. See Inheritance
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Single-source entries: H (33)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Heir, Hela, Helder.
Hela
in Scandinavian mythology, the goddess of the lower world, which was called Hel or Helheim. The name Hela signifies death. She was a daughter of Loki. She is represented as a horrible creature, half black and half blue, who feeds on the brains and the marrow of human beings. She has dead women for her maids. Her table is called Famine and her knife Starvation. Hel or Helheim is so far from Asgard, the abode of the gods, that Odin's swift horse Sleipnir took nine days and nights to reach it. Helheim bears some resemblance to the Hades of the Greeks. A river, gloomy and desolate, flows through it, and the entrance is guarded by a fierce dog. To Helheim are sent the souls of all who die natural deaths, that is, from old age or illness. Far below Helheim is Anguish, the prison house of the wicked. Here Hela sends the souls of sinners to be punished, assigning them according to their deeds to one of the "nine worlds."
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Helder
THE, a seaport in the Dutch province of North Holland , 51 miles from Amsterdam. It is one of the strongest fortresses in Holland , having been first fortified by Napoleon in 1811, and has several naval establishments, including an arsenal and a college, and an excellent harbor. Pop. about 28,000.
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Helena
One of the most beautiful women of the age in which she lived. Her beauty was so universally admired, even in her infancy, that Theseus , with his friend Pirithous , carried her away when she was ten years of age and concealed her with his mother, but she was recovered by Castor and Pollux , and restored to her native country. She married Menelaus , son of Atreus , but when Paris visited Menelaus he persuaded her to fly with him to Troy, в. c. 1198. On this, Menelaus sent ambassadors to the court of Priam to demand her restitution, but in vain, and the result was the Trojan war. When Troy was taken she returned to Menelaus, and after his death she retired to Rhodes, where she was strangled by order of Polyxo, who reigned there. Her beauty and misfortunes have been a theme for the poets in all ages; Tennyson thus speaks of her: "Divinely tall and most divinely fair, A daughter of the gods."
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Helena (City and county-seat)
a city and county-seat of Phillips co., Ark.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Missouri and North Arkansas, the Iron Mountain and Southern, and the Yazoo and Mississippi railroads, 90 miles S. W. of Memphis, Tenn. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and is a shipping point for lumber, cotton, and cotton-seed oil. Its manufactures include ! cotton oil, boxes, cotton goods, machinery, canned goods, and finished lumber. It has electric lights, public schools, public library, the Jefferson High School, Sacred Heart Academy, daily and weekly newspapers, and a National bank. Pop. (1910) 8,722; (1920) 9,112.
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Helena (City of Montana)
a city of Montana, and county-seat of Lewis and Clarke co., near Prickly Pear creek, and on the Great Northern, and the Northern Pacific railroads. It is the commercial center of Montana, northern Idaho, and east-gy ern Washington, and has abundant water power from the Missouri river. It has numerous smelting and reduction works, blast furnaces, foundries, machine shops, granite and sandstone works, and does considerable business in mining, farming, and stock-raising. It is the seat of Montana Wesleyan University, Mount St. Charles College, State Capitol, Federal Buildings, Assay Office, St. Vincent's Academy, Orphans' Home, St. Peter's and St. John's Hospitals. The city has electric lights, and electric street railroads connecting with surrounding towns, daily and weekly newspapers, public library, 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 12,515; (1920) 12,037.
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Helenus
in Greek legend, one of the sons of Priam, king of Troy. He was celebrated as a prophet, and was the only son of Priam who did not lose his life during the siege of Troy. Foreseeing the fall of the city he deserted his countrymen and joined the Greeks. According to some accounts he did not do this of his own free will, but was led to it by the cunning of Ulysses, who wished to obtain the benefit of Helenus' prophetic power. Virgil represents him as having been taken to Epirus by the Greeks as a slave. He had then married Andromache, widow of his brother Hector; and the two, Helenus and Andromache, had become rulers of Epirus. Shakespeare introduces Helenus as one of the characters in Troilus and Cressida.
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Helice
Daughter of Lycaon, beloved by Zeus ( Jupiter ). Hera, out of jealousy, metamorphosed her into a she-bear, whereupon Zeus placed her among the stars, under the name of the Great Bear. Heliopolis (The City of the Sun). A celebrated city of Syria, a chief seat of the worship of Baal, one of whose symbols was the sun. Hence the Greek name of the city.
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Helicopter
an airplane type in which the propeller blades revolve around a vertical shaft, thus enabling the plane to rise or descend vertically. A prize of $100,000 has been offered by M. Michelin of France for its perfecting, which would do much to solve the problem of the landing of flying machines in limited quarters.
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Helictis
a genus of the carnivorous quadrupeds, allied to skunks, of which there are at least two species, one (H. moschata) found in China, the other (H. orientalis) in Nepâl.
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Heliopolis
the On, Rameses, or Beth-shemesh of the Hebrew Scriptures; now called Matarich; situated a little N. of Memphis; and one of the most ancient and extensive cities of Egypt under the Pharaohs. It had a magnificent temple dedicated to Ra, and communicated with the Nile by lakes and canals. During the flourishing ages of the Egyptian monarchy the priests taught within the precincts of its temples, and both Eudoxus and Plato visited its famous schools. Here Joseph and Mary are said to have rested with the infant Christ. Near the village stands the Pillar of On, supposed to be the oldest Egyptian obelisk, 67½ feet high, and 6 feet broad at the base. The Turks were defeated here by the French in 1800.
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