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a town of Sicily, in the province of Catania. It is on the southern slope of Mount Etna. On an eminence overlooking the city is an ancient castle and chapel. The town Norman an has a trade in mineral waters, wine, oil, and hemp. Pop. (1911) 20,923.
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the Lord's Prayer, from the first two words of the Latin version; every 10th large bead in the rosary used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions. At this they repeat the Lord's Prayer, and at the intervening small beads an Ave Maria. Also a rosary. In architecture, a kind of ornament in the shape of beads. In angling, a name given to a line to which hooks are attached at certain intervals, and also leaden beads or shot to sink it.
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the branch of medical science which treats of disease. It investigates its predisposing and existing cause, its characteristic symptoms, and its progress from first to last. Human pathology occupies itself with the diseases man, and comparative pathology , which makes comparison between the diseases of man and those of the inferior animals. Vegetable pathology treats of the diseases of plants.
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the name of a state and city of Punjab, India. The state has an area of 3,542 square miles, with a population of about 1,500,000. Included in this is timber land and fertile region, producing grain, barley, maize and wheat. There are also industries of iron and brass ware. The city and capital has a population of about 50,000.
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COVENTRY KEARSEY DIGHTON, an English poet; born in 18 He published his first volume of poems in 1844, became assistant librarian at the British Museum, and associated himself with the pre-Raphaelite movement. His reputation as a poet was established by the publication of the four parts of "The Angel in the House" (1854-1863), which he revised in successive editions. Besides this he published "The Unknown Eros and other Odes," a poetical anthology called the "Children's Garland," a "Memoir of B. W. Proctor" a (Barry Cornwall), and several contributions to periodicals. He died in Lymington, England, Nov. 26, 1896.
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called also AZIMABAD, a city of Bengal, 140 miles E. of Benares, extends 9 miles along the Ganges. Apart from the Gola or government granary (1786), Patna College, the shrine of Shah Arzani, the mosque of Sher Shah, a Roman Catholic church, and a Mohammedan college, there are no buildings of moment. Its railway communication, and its central position at the junction of three great rivers, the Son, the Gandak, and the Ganges, avenues for the traffic of the northwest provinces, render Patna of great importance as a commercial center. The chief imports are cotton goods, oil-seeds, salt, sugar, wheat, and other cereals. The exports, principally oil seeds and salt, alt, with cotton, spices, English piece goods, cocoanuts, and tobacco. Patna, under its early name of Pataliputra, is supposed to have been founded about 600 b. c. In modern times Patna is notable as the scene of a massacre of British prisoners by Mir Kasim in 1763, which led to war and annexation by the English, and for the mutiny at Dinapur, the military station of Patna, in 1857. Pop. (1918) 140,000.
a native state of the Central provinces, India; area, 2,399 square miles; pop. about 145,000. It has been under the management of a British political agent since 1871. Patna is the chief town; pop. about 3,000.
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JOHN GIBSON, a Scotch missionary; born in Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, May 24, 1824. After some experience in Glasgow mission, he offered his services for the city foreign mission field in connection with the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and on his ordination he settled down toward the end of 1858 among the cannibal natives of Tanna. Here he worked amid trials and privations till 1862, when the hostility of the natives forced him to leave. For 20 years he labored on the neighboring island of Aniwa, the whole population of which became Christian. Both by voice and pen he afterward attracted public attention and sympathy toward this field of mission labor. The thrilling narrative of his experiences was first published in 1890. He died in 1907.
JAMES MORTON, an American archæologist; born in New York, in 1863. He graduated New York University in 1883, afterward taking postgraduate courses at Harvard and in other European universities. From 1887 to 1891 he was professor of Latin at Middlebury College. From 1889 to 1905 he was associate professor of Greek at Wesleyan University. In 1917 he was editor in chief of the "American Journal of Archæology," and was a member of several learned societies. Vol. VII-Cyc
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or PATRE, a fortified seaport town and the most important in the W. of Greece, climbs up a hillside and spreads out at its foot on the E. shore of the Gulf of Patras, 81 miles W. by N. of Corinth and 137 W. of N. of Athens. It is a handsome city, having been almost entirely rebuilt after the ravages of the war of liberation (1821). It is defended by a citadel, is the seat of an archbishop, and has a spacious new harbor (1880) protected by a mole. It ships great quantities of currants, chiefly to Great Britain and France. Besides currants, olive oil, wine, valonia, etc., are exported. Pop. about 45,000. Patræ is the only one of the 12 cities of Achaia which still exists as a town; but most of its relics have been swept away by earthquake (551, 1820) and siege. It was an early seat of Christianity, having an archbishop before 347.
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the father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family termendorabraham, descendants by right. of families before the flood. In Church Isaac, Jacob, his sons, or the heads history, the highest grade in the hierarchy of ordinary jurisdiction, the see of Rome excepted. The title came into use in the 5th century. In the 4th Constantinople and in the 5th Jerusalem occupied the position of patriarchates. These Eastern sees have long been lost to the Latin Church, which admits a Maronite, a Melchite and a Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, a Patriarch of Cilicia, of the Armenian, and a Patriarch of Babylon, of the Chaldean rite. There are also three minor patriarchs in the Western Church, the Patriarch of the Indies, the prelate of the highest rank 10 in the church of Spain, the Patriarch of inating in the Civil War. Other so- Lisbon, and the Patriarch of Venice.
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