Stilicho, Flavius
Flavius (359-408), a celebrated Roman general and statesman. His father was a Vandal chief who had entered the service of the emperor Valens. Stilicho rose to high rank in the army through his military ability, and, when he had satisfactorily performed an important mission to Persia, the Emperor Theodosius the Great gave him his niece in marriage and made him commander-in-chief of the Roman army. On the death of Theodosius the empire was left to his two young sons, Arcadius to rule in the east and Honorius in the west. Rufinus, who had been minister of Theodosius and the enemy of Stilicho, was guardian of Arcadius, while Honorius was intrusted to the care of Stilicho. Rufinus instigated the Visigoths, under their king, Alaric, to an invasion of Greece while Stilicho at once set out for Constantinople and destroyed his rival in 395. He drove Alaric out of Greece in 396, and four years later repulsed him from northern Italy. Stilicho was accused of forming an alliance with Alaric, in the hope of being able to introduce his own family to the imperial succession. Historians differ as to the truth of this accusation, but, at all events, Stilicho was obliged to flee from Rome. He sought refuge at Ravenna, but was taken by Honorius and put to death.
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Still, John
John (1543-1607), an English prelate. He was educated at Cambridge and was bishop of Bath and Wells from 1593 to 1607. He is supposed to have been the author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, which was long considered the first English comedy. As a matter of fact Ralph Roister Doister preceded it. Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed in 1575. It was acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1566.
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Stillingea
a genus of Hippotaneæ. Milky trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, on petioles which have two glands at the apex; flowers monœcious, the males usually in crowded terminal spikes, with a bi-glandular bract at the base; calyx cup-shaped; stamens two, with their filaments united at the base; female solitary; calyx tridentate or trifid; stigmas three, simple; ovary threecelled; fruit capsular, globose, with three cells, each one-seeded. From the tropics of Asia and America. S. sebifera is the Chinese tallow tree. The root of S. sylvatica is considered in the Carolinas and Florida to be a remedy for syphilis.
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Stillman
WILLIAM JAMES, an American artist, journalist, author, and traveler; bor born in Schenectady, N. Y., June 1, 1828; was graduated at Union College in 1848; began egan life as an artist; founded and edited the "Crayon," an art journal in New York. He was for many years a correspondent of the London "Times" and the New York "Evening Post," and was especially conversant with the affairs of Greece; he was consul-general to Crete, 1865-1869. His published works are: "The Acropolis of Athens" (1870); "The Cretan Insurrection" (1874); "Herzegovina and the Late Uprising" (1877); "On the Track of Ulysses" (1887); "Reminiscences of a Journalist." He died in Frimley Green, Surrey, near London, England, July 6, 1901.
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Stillwater
a city and county seat of Washington co., Minn.; on St. Croix lake and river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads; 18 miles N. E. of St. Paul. Stillwater contains the State penitentiary, public library, a high school, two convents, hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has flour mills, carriage factories, machine shops, elevators, foundries, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,198; (1920) 7,735.
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Stilts
a pair of poles or props used in walking to raise the feet some distance above the ground. Each stilt is provided with a strap or stirrup for the foot. In use, the stilts are managed somewhat like a pair of crutches, one under each arm. Few boys have not at some time had an ambition to make a pair of stilts and stalk around on them. The shepherds of a district known as the Landes in France are experts in the use of stilts which they strap to their legs, leaving the arms free to handle the crook.
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Stimson
FREDERIC JESUP, an American lawyer; born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855; was graduated at Harvard University in 1876, and at Harvard Law School in 1878; was admitted to the New York and Boston bars; became assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1884, and later was chosen general counsel to the United States Industrial Commission. He was the author of several law books, novels, essays, mostly under the pseudonym of "J. S. of Dale," including: "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge"; "First Harvests"; "King Noanett"; "Jethro Bacon of Sandwich"; "The American Constitution" (1906); "Popular Law Making" (1910); "The Light of Provence," a play in verse; "My Story," an imagined autobiography of Benedict Arnold (1917).
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Stimson (HENRY LEWIS an American lawyer)
HENRY LEWIS, an American lawyer and public official, born in New York City, in 1867. He graduated from Yale, in 1888, and from the Harvard Law School in the following year. In 1891 he was admitted to the bar, becoming a member of the firm of Root & Clarke, in 1893, and a member of the firm of Winthrop & Stimson, from 1901. From 1906 to 1909 he was United States attorney for the Southern District of Nev New York, and was a Republican candidate for governor of New York, in 1910. He was Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Taft, from May, 1911, to March, 1913. During the World War he served in the law department of the United States Reserves, and was lieutenant-colonel of the 305th Field Artillery from August, 1917, to August, 1918, when he was appointed colonel of the 31st Field Artillery. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, from December, 1917, to August, 1918.
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Stimulants
in pharmacy, agents which increase vital action, first in the organ to which they are applied, and next in the system generally. Stimulants are of three kinds, stomachic, vascular, and spinal. The name is popularly restricted to the first of these, which act on the stomach, expelling flatulence, besides allaying pain and spasm of the intestines. They are also called carminatives. Examples, ginger, capsicum and chillies, cardamoms, mustard, pepper, nutmeg, etc. Some vascular stimulants act on the heart and the larger vessels, others on the smaller ones. Of the first are free ammonia, alcohol in the form of brandy or wine, camphor, aromatics, etc. Of the latter are acetate of ammonia, guiacum, sassafras, etc. Spinal stimulants increase the function of the spinal cord. Examples, nux vomica, strychnia, cantharides, phosphorus, etc.
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