These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Strophe, Strophulus, Strozzi.
in the Greek drama, the turning of the chorus from the right to the left of the orchestra, the return being the antistrophe; the part of a choral ode sung during the act of so turning; hence, in ancient lyric poetry, a term for the former of two corresponding stanzas, the latter being the antistrophe. The term is sometimes used in relation to modern poetry. In botany, the spirals formed in the development of leaves.
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in pathology, the redgum, or tooth-rash; an eruption of minute hard, slightly-red pimples, clustered and scattered, affecting infants or young children. The largest number of pimples are on the face and the neck. It arises from irritation of the stomach. The irritation is slight, and the disease not Unimportant variations dangerous. have led to the establishment of the species S. intertinctus, S. confertus, S. candidus, and S. volaticus. Cye-Vol. LX
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the name of a wealthy and Allied armies in the Balkans, during the illustrious Florentine family. Palla, Filippo, and Piero were the three most renowned members of this princely house, between 1432 and 1537, and who were either exiled or lost their lives in the struggle for liberty against the power of the Medici family.
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JOHANN FRIED- RICH, COUNT, a Danish statesman; born in Halle-on-the-Saale, Prussian Saxony, Aug. 5, 1737; studied medicine, and in 1768 was appointed physician to the King of Denmark. He soon became a favorite with both the king and queen, and effected the dismissal of all those who were obstacles to his own ambitious plans. In 1770 he advised the king (who was little better than an imbecile) to abolish the council of state, a measure which roused the indignation of the Danish nobility, since it threw all authority into the hands of the queen and the favorite. Struensee by various means gradually usurped the administration of all affairs in the name of the king, and caused himself to be created count. His arrogance now caused a conspiracy against him, and on Jan. 16, 1772, the queen, Struensee, and their partisans were seized. The favorite was brought before a special commission, was found guilty of criminal relations with the queen (on insufficient evidence), convicted, and executed on April 28, 1772.
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a river which has its rise in the mountains of Western Bulgaria, flows S. through Macedonia, through Lake Tachyno, and empties into the Ægean Sea 50 miles E. of Salonika. It is identical with the Strymon of antiquity. During the two Balkan wars, in 1912-1913, and again during the World War, after the Bulgarians had joined the Central Empires, it was the scene of heavy fighting. Until September, 1918, it was largely within the Bulgarian lines, but after the final attack by the Allies at that time the Bulgarians were driven back and the Allied troops advanced up both banks of the river.
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a cleft in the mountain chain which formerly constituted the frontier between Turkish Macedonia and Bulgaria, through which runs the River Struma, and which constituted one of the gateways into Bulgaria by which the Allied troops advanced into Bulgaria during their successful offensive, in September, 1918.
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a town and fortress in Macedonia, held by the Bulgarians against the British contingent of the in Galicia; on a river of the same name;
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SIMEON, an American journalist and writer; born at Vitebsk, Russia, in 1879. While still a boy he removed to the United States and graduated from Columbia University in 1900. In 1906 he became an editorial writer for the New York "Evening Post," and was also literary editor of that paper. His essays were published in several volumes, including "The Patient Observer" (1914). (1911); "Post - Impressions" Other books are: "Belshazzar Court" (1914); a novel, "Professor Latimer's Progress" (1918); and "Little Journeys to Paris" (1918).
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a bar in a frame having equal and opposite forces applied to its ends, acting inward and producing upon it a state of compression. Spec Specifically: (1) A diagonal timber which acts as a post or brace to support a principal rafter or purlin. Its lower end is stepped into a tie beam, or on a shoulder of a king or queen post. (2) A brace between joists.
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FRIEDRICH GEORG WIL- HELM, a German astronomer; born in Altona, Holstein, April 15, 1793. His whole life was devoted to astronomy in the service of the Russian Government; from 1813 to 1820 observer and Professor Extraordinary of Astronomy in the University of Dorpat; from 1820 to 1838 Professor of Astronomy and director of the same observatory; and from 1839 to 1864 director of the new Imperial Observatory at Pulkova, near Petrograd. His great work in astronomy was the observation and publication of the great Dorpat catalogue of double-stars, generally known as the "Mensuræ Micrometricæ," and denoted by the letter Σ and the "Positiones Mediæ," or results of the meridian observations of the same stars, this catalogue being generally denoted by the letters > [PM]. These catalogues have served as the model for all similar work since. The rest of his life was given to the foundation and organization of the great observatory at Pulkova. He died Nov. 23, 1864.
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or STRYI World War. It was at this point that the Allies invaded Bulgaria proper, on September 25, 1918, as part of the general advance, begun a week before, which terminated in the complete collapse of the Bulgarian resistance, and proved the beginning of the end of the war as a whole.
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or STRYI, a town of Austria,
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or STRYI was the scene of a great conflagration in April, 1886, which destroyed over 600 houses and most of the public buildings. The chief manufactures are leather goods and matches. Pop. 33,400.
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a stream in Eastern Galicia, joining the Dniester near Stanislaw, along whose banks severe fighting alo took place between the Germans and Russians during the World War. During the summer of 1915 the German- Austrian armies had made a sweeping advance and compelled the whole Russian front to fall back. Toward the end of their retreat the Russians suddenly developed unexpected resistance along the Strypa, having been reinforced in this region. While the troops in other sectors of the Eastern front settled down into trench life as the winter months came on, the Russians along the Strypa continued their activities dur during the cold months, inflicting heavy and continuous losses on the Germans, and prepared the way for the general Russian offensive, which began the following summer.
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