Each of these 15 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.
a town in Plymouth co., Mass., on Massachusetts bay and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 14 miles S. E. of Boston. It is a popular summer resort, with steamship connections with Boston, and has the oldest "Meeting House" in New England, first occupied in 1682. It has a high school, Derby Academy, public library, manufacturing and fishing interests, banks and newspapers. Pop. (1910) 4,965; (1920) 5,604.
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KATHERINE (TY- NAN), an Irish poet and novelist; born in Dublin in 1861. She was educated in a convent and in 1893 she married H. A. Hinkson, after which she resided in London. She was a prolific writer of novels and was also well known as a poet. Among her novels are "Peggy" (1908); "Princess Katherine" (1911); "The Romance of Lady Sarah Lennox" (1913). She published an autobiography entitled "Twenty-five Years." She was one of the chief figures in the Irish literary revival.
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a hybrid, the produce of a stallion and a she-ass. It is smaller and inferior in strength to the mule produced by an ass and a mare, and it is also much less common.
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a seaport of Japan, opened to foreign trade in 1860. It is situated on the island of Hondo, on the Bay of Osaka, 40 miles S. W. of Kioto, with which it has railway communication. The trade with the interior is important, and the exports of tea, copper, fish, silk, etc., large. Pop. with Kobe, about 500,000.
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the fruit of the dog-rose or wildbrier. It contains tannin, sugar, citric and malic acids, and is sometimes used in making conserves.
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tyrant of Athens. He was the son of Pisistratus, at whose death he assumed the government, in conjunction with his brother HIP- PARCHUS (q. v.), on whose death he seized the reins of government, and revenged the death of his brother by putting to death all of whom he entertained the least suspicion. His tyranny at last became so obnoxious to the citizens that he was expelled from the city 510 b. c. He afterward induced Darius to apply to the Athenians in his favor; and their decisive refusal kindled the first war of the Persians against the European Greeks. According to some authorities he fell at Marathon, fighting against his countrymen, 490 b. c.
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sometimes called Hippo Regius to distinguish it from another town of the same name on the Carthaginian coast; an ancient Numidian city, the ruins of which still exist a short distance S. of Bona in Algeria. It was the episcopal see of St. Augustine, and was destrove stroyed by the Vandals in 430.
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a family of dipterous insects, parasitic on birds and quadrupeds. The type is the genus Hippobosca or horse-fly.
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a genus of fishes, closely allied to the pipe-fishes; the upper parts have some resemblance to the head and neck of a horse in miniature, which has suggested the name. When swimming they maintain a vertical position; they occur in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
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a spiced beverage, held in great esteem by the monks in the Middle Ages as a warm and grateful cordial and stimulant in cases of cold, and also as a beverage in winter nights, and for the aged and relaxed. The spiced hippocras consisted of cinnamon, cloves, etc., bruised and macerated for seven days in Canary wine (Madeira), and then sweetened either with honey or sugar. The "ypocras," for lords and abbots, was prepared with aqua vitæ, or brandy, spices, ambergris, and musk. (pok'ra-tēz), the HIPPOCRATES greatest physician of ancient times, usually designated the "Father of Medicine"; born in the Island of Cos, about 460 b. c. Hippocrates belonged to the family of the Asclepiades, priest-physicians, who claimed to be descended from Æsculapius, god of medicine. He practiced medicine in Athens, Thrace, Thessaly, Delos, and in other parts of Greece. Among his genuine writings are: "Prognosis"; "Aphorisms"; "On Epidemics"; "On Diet in Acute Diseases"; "On Air, Water, and Place"; "On Wounds of the Head." He died in Larissa, Thessaly, about 377 b. c.
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A daughter of Oenomaus , king of Pisa, who married Pelops , son of Tantalus . Her father would marry her only to someone who should conquer him in a chariot race. Her beauty was great, and many were com- 142 IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS petitors for her hand, though the conditions involved death in case of defeat in the race. After thirteen suitors had been defeated, Pelops entered the lists, and, by bribing the charioteer of Oenomaus, obtained the victory and married Hippodamia.
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the Greek name for the public place where the horse and chariot races were held. The name is sometimes applied to a modern circus.
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in classical mythology, a queen of the Amazons, given in marriage to Theseus by Hercules, who had conquered her, and taken away her girdle by order of Eurystheus. She had a son by Theseus, called HIP- POLYTUS (q. v.).
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A method of divination practised by the ancient Celts , who kept certain white horses in consecrated groves. These were made to walk immediately after the sacred car, and auguries were drawn from their movements. The ancient Germans kept similar steeds in their temples. If on leaving these on the outbreak of hostilities they crossed the threshold with the left forefoot first, the presage was regarded as an evil one, and the war was abandoned.
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a genus of plants, order Euphorbiaceæ. The species H. mancinella is the famous Manchineel tree, which is asserted to be so poisonous that persons have died from merely sleeping in its shade. It flourishes in the Antilles and on the American continent, near the sea, and forms a very handsome tree, with foliage not unlike that of the pear tree. The juice which fills the tree is of a pure white color, and when dropped on the hand it burns like fire, forming an ulcer very difficult to heal. The fruit, which resembles a very beautiful apple in appearance, contains a similar juice, but of a milder character. The timber is beautifully variegated, and susceptible of a high polish.
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