Each of these 9 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.
the capital of Anam, a French protectorate 10 miles from the mouth of the Hué river, or Truongtien. In 1801 it was strongly for fortified by French officers. Since the treaty of Hué in 1884 there is a French garrison in Thuanan, the port of Hué. There is little industry in Hué, which has a popиlation with suburbs of about 65,000. See ANAM.
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OLIVER MADOX, a British author. He was born in 1877 and was educated at U University College School and on the continent. For a time he acted as war correspondent and became editor of the "Onlooker" and the "Throne." Was connected with different papers in England and the United States. When European war broke out served in the Somme Campaign, being wounded at Thiepval. His works (some under pseudonym of Joe Wardle) include: "Love's Disguises"; "In Arcady and Out"; "Book of Witches"; "A Vagabond in New York"; "The Artistic Temperament"; "Lord of Latimer Street"; "A Scarecrow Emperor"; "Down Stream."
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a thriving town of Spain; near the confluence of the Odiel and the Tinto; 68 miles W. S. W. of Seville. Fishing and the plaiting of esparto grass are the chief industries. Huelva is the port for the important Rio Tinto copper mines, in British hands, and a shipping place for wine. Tons of copper ore, iron ore, besides manganese, quicksilver, wine, etc., are annually exported. Pop. of town (1917) 34,492. The province of Huelva has an area of 3,913 square miles. Pop. (1917) 340,360.
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VICTORIANO, a Mexican soldier and President. Born in 1854 in Mexico and died in the United States in 1917. Descended from Spanish and native races as a boy he entered the army and attracting by his keenness the attention of the high army officers he became a student in the Chapultepec Military College. He took part in the battles which placed Diaz in power in 1876. During the intervening years until 1902 when he conducted a successful campaign against the Indians, General Huerta made himself an authority on the geography of Mexico. He conducted President Diaz from the capital to Vera Cruz in 1911, and then served under Madero against Orozco and Diaz. In 1913 he deserted the cause of Madero and had himself made Provisional-President. The United States refused to recognize his government or dictatorship and the bad feeling between the two governments led to the occupation of Vera Cruz by the United States marines. Huerta was finally forced out by GEN. VICTORIANO HUERTA the successes of the Carranza-Villa troops and left Mexico for Spain in August, 1914. About a year later he entered the United States and purchased a home on Long Island, but later was arrested on the Mexican border and charged with plotting an invasion of Mexico. He died in prison, awaiting trial.
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capital of province of Huesca, Spain; on the Isuela, 55 miles N. E. of Saragossa. Its chief buildings are the cathedral (1400-1515), a beautiful Gothic edifice; the the Roma Romanesque church of San Pedro (1150-1241); the university founded in 1354 by Pedro IV.; and a former palace of the kings of Aragon. The Osca of the Romans, where Sertorius was murdered in 72 B. C., Huesca afterward became famous as a seat of learning. Tanning and manufactures of linens are carried on to some extent. Pop. about 12,000. The province of Huesca has an area of 5,848 square miles; pop. (1917) 249,047.
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PIERRE DANIEL (ü-ā'), a French critic and classical scholar; born in Caen, Normandy, in 1630. He was educated at the Jesuits' college at Caen; was appointed in 1670 sub-preceptor under Bossuet to the dauphin, and superintended the celebrated Delphin series (ad usum Delphini) of the Latin classics. Having taken holy orders, he was made Abbot of Aulnai, and subsequently nominated Bishop of Soissons, later exchanged for that of Avranches. He wrote: "Latin and Greek Songs"; "Origin of the Romans"; "Strictures of the Cartesian Philosophy"; "History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients," a book still of great value. He died in Paris, France, in 1721.
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SIR WILLIAM, an English spectroscopist; born in London, England, Feb. 7, 1824. In 1852 he was elected a member of the Microscopical Society, and for some years labored at the study of physiology, animal and vegetable, with the microscope. In 1855 at his private observatory he began the study of the physical constitution of stars, planets, comets, and nebulæ. By researches on the sun's spectra and the spectra of certain comets, he ascertained that the luminous properties of the former are not the same as the luminous properties of the latter. After 1875 he was engaged in photographing the ultraviolet parts of the spectra of the stars. He also determined the amount of heat that reaches the earth from some of the fixed stars. He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society 1876-1878; president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1891. In 1874 he became corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and three years later corresponding member of the Royal Society of Göttingen. He died May 12, 1910.
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ST., of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln; born of noble family in Avalon, Burgundy, about 1135. On his mother's death his father entered a priory at Villarbenoit, carrying with him the boy, then but eight years old. At 19 he was ordained deacon. Ere long he was attracted by the severer discipline of the Grande Chartreuse. Here he remained 10 years, received his priest's orders, and was appointed bursar to the monastery. His fame came to the ears of Henry II., who prevailed on him to accept the government of the struggling Carthusian monastery at Witham in Somersetshire, and summoned him thence in May, 1186, to fill the bishopric of Lincoln. He died in London, Nov. 16, 1200, and was canonized in 1220.
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a parish of Buckinghamshire, England, among the Chiltern Hills, 2 miles N. of High Wycombe. Hughenden Manor, a large brick threestory mansion, mostly modern, was purchased before 1847 by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. The ancient parish church, much restored in 1874, contains a monument to the earl, erected by the queen; and in its vault he lies buried by the side of Lady Beaconsfield.
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