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ssian naval officer; born LAVICH, a Russian in 1819; early entered the navy; was Minister of Ways of Communication in 1874-1888. While holding this office he made extensive improvements in the harbors and waterways of Russia; was president of the Russian Association for Saving Life, and established most of the life stations in Russia. From 1889 to 1899 he was a member of the Council of State. He died in St. Petersburg, May 8, 1899.
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GEORGE BROWNE, an American architect; born in New York City C in 1837; studied with Richard M. Hunt; designed numerous private residences and public buildings; and became president of the American Institute of Archi tects, the National Arts Club, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He died in 1913.
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in geology, a term applied to the oldest division but one of the post-Tertiary period.
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a form of wind mill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis, and can be turned by means of a lever.
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after death, as a post-mortem examination, i. e., one made after the death of a person, in order to ascertain the cause of death either in the interests of science, or for the ends of justice.
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a bond given as security for the repayment of a sum of money to a lender on the death of some specified person, from whom the borrower has expectations. Such loans in almost every case carry high, if not usurious, rates of interest, and generally the borrower binds himself to pay a much larger sum than he receives, in consideration of the risk which the lender runs in case of the borrower dying before the person from whom he has expectations.
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in geology, in the etymological sense, more modern than the Pliocene, i. e., embracing all the deposits from the end of the Pliocene till now; but Lyell, who introduced the term, restricts it to the older of these, applying the term Recent to the others.
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the regulation of communication between different parts of a country, or different countries, including especially the forwarding and delivering of letters, newspapers and small packages, and the establishment of a registry system for the transfer of money and the transaction of other financial business. In some countries the use of the telephone and the telegraph forms a part of the postal service. Though letter conveyance is the primary work of the postoffice, many other branches of business have been assumed by it. The word "post" has its particular application from the posts, or stages, at which on the roads of the Roman empire couriers were maintained for the purpose of conveying news and despatches. Postal Union. - Under the terms of a treaty concluded at Berne, Oct. 9, 1874, the object of which was to secure uniformity in the treatment of correspondence, and the simplification of accounts, as well as the reduction of rates within certain limits, and whose provisions were carried into operation generally July 1, 1875, the whole of Europe, the United States, Egypt, British India, and all the colonies of France were at the outset, or shortly thereafter, included in the union and many other countries and colonies have since joined it. The international accounts in respect of postages are based on a month's return of correspondence taken every third year. United States. The beginnings of a postal service in the United States date Photo, Brown Brothers Enc. Vol. 7-p. 324 © Underwood & Underwood
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A visionary of the sixteenth century, Precipitation born in the diocese of Avranches. He was so precocious that at fourteen years of age he was made master of a school. It is said that he was in the habit of reading the most profound works of the Jewish rabbis, and the vivacity of his imagination threw him into constant troubles, from which he had the greatest difficulty in extricating himself. He believed that he had been called by God to re-unite all men under one law, either by reason or the sword. The pope and the king of France were to be the civil and religious heads of his new republic. He was made Almoner to a hospital at Venice, where he came under the influence of a woman called Mère Jeanne, who had visions which had turned her head. Because of his heterodox preachings, Postel was denounced as a heretic, but latterly was regarded as merely mad. After having travelled somewhat extensively in the East, and having written several works in which he dealt with the visions of his coadjutor, he retired to the priory of St. Martin-des-Champs at Paris, where he died penitent in 1581.
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a bill or placard, printed or illustrated, conspicuously exhibited to convey a message to the public. The practice of using placards for public information had its vogue among both the Greeks and Romans, but the invention of printing gave the custom a development which has kept pace with modern civilization. In several cities of Europe it was the practice in the 17th century to affix theatrical announcements to the rails and posts in the streets, and in Paris the color of the poster indicated the theater. The posters sometimes consisted of letterpress large and bold enough to catch the public eye; sometimes the posters had representations of characters and scenes from the play. The colored poster, as we now know it, was developed by Chéret, the lithographer, in Paris, who issued the first example of his skill in 1866. The circus and the theater have had the chief hand in the development of the pictorial poster, which, by the representation of stage characters, ballet girls, children, and animals, has attained a high level of art. The French poster designers, among them Grasset, Toulouse-Lautrec, Willette, Forain, Guillaume, Schwaebe, and Gossard, have given France first place in the art, but the art has attained a great development in the United States, and men like Penfield and Bradley gave it the impetus which has carried it into every field of advertising that allows pictorial representation.
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