These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Marcellus, Marcellus, Marcellus Empiricus.
I., Pope, succeeded Marcellinus in 308. The Emperor Maxentius banished him from Rome for excommunicating an apostate. He died in 310. MARCELLUS II., succeeded Julius III. in 1555, but died a few weeks after his election.
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M. CLAUDIUS, a Roman general and member of one of the most eminent plebeian families. In his first consulship (222 B. C.) he defeated the Insubrian Gauls and slew with his own hand their king, Britomartus or Viridomarus. In the second Punic war Marcellus took command after the disaster of Cannæ, and checked Hannibal at Nola, in Campania (216 B. c.) Again consul in 214 B. C., he gave a fresh impulse to the war in Sicily. The skill of Archimedes compelled him to regularly blockade the city of Syracuse. Famine, pestilence, and ultimately treachery on the part of the Spanish auxiliaries of the Syracusans, opened its gates (212 b. c.), after which the remainder of Sicily was soon brought under the dominion of the Romans. In his fifth consulship, 208 B. c., he fell in a skirmish against Hannibal.
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A Gallic-Roman writer born at Bordeaux in the fourth century. He was magister officiorum under Theodosius (379-395.) He wrote a work called De medicamentis conspiricis physicis ac rationalibus, a collection of medical recipes, for the most part absurd and worthless, and having more in common with popular superstition than with medical science.
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the third month of the year. It was originally the first month of the Roman year, and was named in honor of Mars, the god of war. Astronomically, it is the first month of spring. In northern latitudes, however, it is a winter month. In southern Australia, it is, of course, the last month of summer, corresponding to our September. The Anglo-Saxons called it the loud or stormy month. The farmers of England desire a dry March for the sake of their crops. There is a popular proverb that "A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom." To people impatient for spring, it seems the longest month in the year. The Scotch have a tradition to the effect that March borrowed its last three days from April in order to prolong winter weather. These borrowing days, as they are called, are considered ill days. They are described in a countryside rhyme as follows: The first, it sall be wind and weet, The next, it sall be snow and sleet; The third, it sall be sic a freeze, Sall gar the birds stick to the trees.
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a frontier or boundary of a territory; especially applied to the boundaries or confines of political divisions, or to the country lying near and about such; as, for example, the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. Geneva is situated in the Marches of France, Savoy and Switzerland.
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a musical composition, chiefly for military bands, with wind instruments, intended to accompany the marching of troops. There are slow and quick marches, and marches peculiar to different countries. Marches are also introduced into oratorios, the best-known examples being the "Dead March" from the oratorio of "Saul" and Mendelssohn's "Wedding March."
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PEYTON CONWAY, army officer; born at Easton, Pa., in 1864, graduated from Lafayette College in 1887. He then spent a year at the United States Military Academy, ten years later graduating from the Artillery School, Fort Monroe. He commanded the Astor Battery in 1898, and was at the head of the American forces in action at Tilad Pass, Luzon, P. I., in 1899, in which General Gregorio del Pilar was killed. During this expedition General Concepcion surrendered to Major March, and Aguinaldo's wife and her escort were captured. In 1917 he was appointed army artillery commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and in February, 1918, was made chief of staff in the United States with the rank of Major General in the permanent establishment.
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the first month of the Roman year, and the third according to our present calendar, consisting of 31 days. It was considered as the first month of the year in England till the change of style in 1752, and the legal year was reckoned from March 25. Its last three days (old style) were once popularly supposed to have been "borrowed" by March from April, and are proverbially stormy.
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the principal river of Moravia, rising on the boundary between that country and Prussian Silesia, and flowing 214 miles S. to the Danube, which it joins 6 miles above Pressburg. It receives on the right the Thaya. In its lower course it forms the boundary between Austria and Hungary. It is navigable for small boats from Göding, 80 miles from its mouth.
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JEAN BAPTISTE (mär-shong'), a French military officer; born in Thoissey, Ain, France, Nov. 22, 1863. He entered the army in 1883. He spent some time in a military school, and was then sent to Africa. His first service was in Senegambia, and as early as 1890 he was dispatched on exploring expeditions to the sources of the Niger and other districts. He established in 1898 the post of Fashoda on the White Nile, and refused to withdraw on command of the British until ordered to do so by his own government. In 1899 he received a tremendous popular ovation in Paris. He became a colonel in 1902, but retired in 1904. He performed useful service in the World War.
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THE, a territory of Italy, comprising a region lying between the Apennines and the Adriatic, and divided into four provinces-Urbino and Pesaro, Ancona, Macerata, and Ascoli; total area, 3,749 square miles; pop. about 1,175,000.
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Emperor of Rome after the death of Theodosius II., in 450. He was a Thracian of obscure origin. His reign, which lasted but six years, was marked by peaceful and energetic measures. He died in 457.
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a name meaning Men of the Marches, or Frontiers, or Borderers, and given by the Ro- GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH mans to various tribes on the confines of Germany. Some hordes under this name were driven out of Gaul by Julius Cæsar, 58 B. C. Maroboduus formed a league among these tribes, and concluded a treaty with Tiberius (afterward emperor), in the year 6. The Cherusci defeated the Marcommani in 17, and a peace was mediated between them by Drusus. Domitian made war on them, and was defeated in 90. In alliance with other tribes they invaded the Roman empire in 166, when a war commenced which was not brought to a close till 180. They ravaged Italy in 270. The last notice of Marcomanni is in 451, when they formed a contingent of the army with which Attila invaded Gaul and Italy.
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