Henry
LANDGRAVE OF THURINGIA, was elected Emperor by the ecclesiastical princes in 1246, when Pope Innocent IV. deposed Frederick II. He died in 1247 of a wound received fight ing his rival.
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Henry, Henry, Henry.
Henry
FORT, an ancient fort erected on the site of the present town of Petersburg, Va., in 1646.
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Henry
surnamed THE NAVIGATOR. a Portuguese prince; born in Oporto in 1394. The ambition of Henry was the discovery of unknown regions of the world. At Sagres he erected an observatory, to which he attached a school for the instruction of youthful scions of the nobility in the sciences necessary to navigation. Subsequently he dispatched some of his pupils on voyages of discovery, which resulted at last in the discovery of the Madeira Islands in 1418. Henry's thoughts were now directed toward the auriferous coasts of Guinea, of which he had heard from the Moors; and in 1433 one of his mariners sailed round Cape Nun, till then regarded as the farthest point of the earth, and took possession of the coasts as far S. as Cape Bojador. Next year Henry sent out a larger ship, which reached a point 120 miles beyond Cape Bojador; and at last, in 1440, Cape Blanco was reached. Henry died in 1460.
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Henry (PATRICK an American patriot)
PATRICK, an American patriot; born in Hanover co., Va., May 29, 1736. He entered business and married at 18. Having failed successively in "store-keeping" and in farming, he became a lawyer in 1760, and three years later found his opportunity, when, having been employed to plead the cause of the people against an unpopular tax, his great eloquence seemed suddenly to develop itself. This defense placed him at once in the front rank of American orators, and his later speeches advanced him to their head. Throughout the Revolutionary War he was a zealous patriot. He was a delegate to the 1st Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in 1774, and delivered the first speech in that assembly-a speech that for fiery eloquence and lofty tone was worthy of so momentous a meeting. In 1776 he carried the vote of the Virginia convention for independence; and in the same year he became governor of the new State. In 1791 he retired from public life, and returned to his practice; in 1795 he declined the secretaryship of State offered him by Washington. He died June 6, 1799.
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Henry V
king of England. He reigned 1413-22. Shakespeare describes him as a wild, dissolute youth. As a king he was not lacking in manly qualities. He invaded France in 1415 and won the brilliant battle of Agincourt. He married Catharine of France. By the treaty of Troyes, made in 1420, their son to be was agreed upon as the joint king of France and England.
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Henry VI
king of England. The son of Henry V and Catharine. His father died when he was only nine months old. He was king of England 1422-61. In 1430 he was crowned king of France at Paris, according to agreement. It was during his reign that Joan of Arc and Charles VII drove the English forces to the English Channel , leaving England no territory in France except Calais.
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Henry, Joseph
Joseph (1797-1878), the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . He was a native of Albany, New York . He took up the study of medicine, but abandoned it for engineering. In 1826 he became an instructor in Albany Academy. He was much interested in electro-magnets, a subject on which he delivered public lectures. By means of an electric battery, a coil of wire, and a soft iron core, he made a magnet capable of sustaining a weight of 3,500 pounds, to the great astonishment of the scientific world. His experiments led to the construction of the magnetic telegraph. His reputation won him the chair of natural philosophy in Princeton College. In 1846 he was made secretary of the Smithsonian. He had the privilege of organizing that institution. He won still further fame as the organizer of systematic information leading up to the establishment of the United States Weather Bureau . See Smithsonian
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Henty
GEORGE ALFRED, a popular English novelist and writer for boys; born in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, Dec. 8, 1832. He was editor of "Union Jack," a journal for boys, and has been special war correspondent of the London "Standard" in various quarters of the globe. A voluminous writer, among his works are: "The Young Franc-Tireurs," "Winning His Spurs," "Facing Death," "The Lion of St. Mark's," "In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers," "Lost Heir," and some 70 others. He died in 1902.
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Hepatica
a lowly, modest plant of the buttercup family, closely allied to the anemone. In northeastern United States the hepatica is the earliest flower to bloom in the woodlands. Its flowers vary from white and pink to purple. The leaf is three-lobed. While the snow still lies deep in the sugar camp hepaticas may be found on the brow of a ravine exposed to the southern sun. A few days later others may be found snuggled up to the south side of a huge stump. Hepaticas do well in a shady, rich corner of a garden, if they can have plenty of loam from the woods.
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Hephaestus
he-fes'tus, in Greek mythology, the god of fire and of all artists who worked in iron and metals. He is identified with the Roman Vulcan. See Vulcan
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Heptarchy
the name sometimes applied to the seven kingdoms supposed to have been established by the Saxons in England. This is understood to mean only that the chief kingdoms at various periods from the 5th to the 9th century were Wessex, Sussex, Kent, Essex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumberland.
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Hera
he'ra, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and the sister and wife of Zeus. She corresponds to the Roman Juno. The name Hera means the "chosen one." She was the type of a faithful wife and mother, and was treated with reverence by the other gods, Zeus himself respecting her counsels, although she must obey him unquestioningly. She was jealous, but with excellent reason, for her husband was often faithless. The disposition ascribed to Hera by Greek writers is much that of a modern termagant. When she became too obstinate and quarrelsome Zeus punished her. Once he hung her up in the clouds with her hands bound and anvils tied to her feet. Later writers give Hera the character of queen of heaven, second in power to Zeus only. Hera aided the Greeks in the Trojan war, because Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, gave the golden apple inscribed "for the fairest," not to her, but to her beautiful rival Aphrodite. In art, Hera is represented as a majestic woman, wearing a diadem and clad in flowing drapery. In her right hand she holds a sceptre. The Graces and the Hours were here handmaids, and Iris, the rainbow, was her messenger.
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