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 small seaport town of Colombia, on the N. shore of the Isthmus of Panama, almost due N. of the town of Panama. It has an excellent harbor, discovered by Columbus in 1502, but is very unhealthy, and has fallen into decay since 1739, when it was stormed by Admiral Vernon, during the war between England and Spain.
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a possession of Portugal on the E. coast of Africa, with an area of about 14,000 miles and a population of about 800,000. Portuguese authority is respected only in the coast tow towns, the interior of the colony being largely unexplored. The coast affords several harbors, but because of strong currents navigation is dangerous. The climate is very hot and unhealthy. The commerce, which is controlled by the French, consists in the exporting of ivory, wax, and rubber, and the importing of manufactured goods. The forests contain a number of valuable woods, and the chief crops of the province are rice and millet. The capital is Bulama, situated on the island of the same name. This town divides the commerce with Bissao and Cacheo.
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or PORTUNUS, the Roman god of harbors. The Portumnalia were yearly celebrated in his honor.
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in heraldry, a term applied to a lion, horse, etc., represented standing still, with all his feet on the ground; statant.
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or TABLEAUX VIVANTS, imitations of pictures by living persons taking the place of those depicted.
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or WATZ, a town of Serbia, 9 miles S. of the Danube and 40 S. E. of Belgrade. Here was signed, July 21, 1718, the treaty between Venice and the emperor, on the one side, and the Porte on the other, by which a truce of 25 years was established, and the Banat of Temesvar, the W. portion of Wallachia and Serbia, Belgrade, and part of Bosnia were secured to Austria. Pop. 4,000. It was occupied by the Germans in 1915.
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a Greek Stoic philosopher; born in Apamea, Syria, but styled "The Rhodian" by reason of his long residence in the island of Rhodes; lived from 135 to 50 b. c. He was one of the most learned men of antiquity, his knowledge and his writings extending over every branch of science. His greatest work was a universal history in 52 books, held in high esteem by the ancients; it was a continuation of Polybius, and covered the period 145-82 B. C. His lectures on "Tactics" would seem to be the basis of the tractate of his disciple Asclepiodotus on the same subject.
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a mountain of Italy, on the N. W. of Naples, close by the city, from of old a noble site for the villas of wealthy citizens. It is remarkable for the tunnel known as the Grotto of Posilipo, through which the road from Naples to Pozzuoli passes. The grotto varies in height from 20 feet to 80 or more, is 20 to 30 feet wide, and 755 yards long. It is traditionally said to have been made in the reign of Augustus, but is probably earlier. Above the eastern archway of the grotto is the so-called "Tomb of Vergil." At the base of the hill anciently stood the poet's villa. During the Middle Ages the common people believed the grotto to be the work of the poet, whom they regarded as a great magician. Two other tunnels penetrate through the hill, one to the N. of the grotto, 800 yards long, 39 feet high, and 33 feet broad, made for the tramway, and another constructed at the command of Agrippa in 37 B. C., but only discovered in 1812.
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in photography, a picture obtained by printing from a negative, in which the lights and shades are rendered as they are in nature. See PHOTOG- RAPHY.
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the system of philosophy outlined by Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in his "Philosophie Positive," the sixth and last volume of which was published in 1842. It is the outcome of the Law of the Three Stages and is based on the positive sciences, taken in the following series: matheastronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology. It relinquishes attempts to transcend the sphere e of experience, and seeks to establish by observation and induction laws or constant relations, and resigns iself to ignorance of the agents. In the opinion of its founder it is capable of being developed into a religion . and a polity
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a society founded in Paris in 1848, by Comte, in the hope that it might exert as powerful an influence over the revolution as the Jacobin Club had exerted in 1789. In this he was disappointed, but the disciples who gathered around him were the germ of the Positivist Church.
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the religion of Humanity, developed from the positive philosophy, and claiming to be a synthesis of all human conceptions of the external order of the universe. Its professed aim, both in public and private life, is to seof social feeling over of cure the victory self-love, of altruism over egotism.
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a force or body which the sheriff of a county is empowered to raise in case of riot, possession kept on forcible entry, rescue, or other attempt to oppose or obstruct the execution of justice.
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a word having several applications: 1. The act or state of possessing or holding as owner or occupant; the state of owning or being master of anything; the state of being seized of anything; occupancy; ownership, rightful or wrongful. 2. That which is possessed; property, land, estate, or goods owned. 3. A district, or extent over which a person or thing has power or authority. 4. The state of being possessed or under the power of evil spirits, passions, or influences; madness, lunacy. 5. An idea, a prepossession, a presentiment. In civil law, the holding or having as owner or occupier, whether rightfully or wrongfully; actual seizing or occupancy. In international law, a country or territory held by mere right of conquest. In Scriptures, the taking possession of the body or spirit by by demons or devils. They produced bodily disease or defect as dumbness (Matt. ix: 32-34), blindness and dumbness (xii: 22-30) epilepsy with dumbness (Mark ix: 17-27); and a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity 18 years is described as bound that length of time by Satan (Luke xiii: 16). Mentally, the possession by an unclean spirit produced symptoms almost indistinguishable from those of madness matics (number, geometry, mechanics), (Mark v: 2-20). Jesus, when on earth, cast out demons (Matt. iv: 24).
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