These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sarmatians, Saronic Gulf, Saros.
a people of supposed Asiatic race, who in the time of the Romans occupied the vast region between the . They Black, Baltic, and Caspian Seas were a nomadic race, whose women went to war like the men, and they were said by tradition to be descended from the Amazons by Scythian fathers. Sarmatia coincided in part with Scythia, but whether the peop people were of the same race is doubtful.
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the ancient name of the Gulf of Ægina, on the E. coast of Greece.
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an ancient Assyrian astronomical period, the origin and exact length of which are unknown, though they have been the subject of much disputation. By some authors the saros has been confounded with the Metonic cycle.
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PAOLO (surnamed SERVITA). better known by his monastic appellation, FRA PAOLO; an Italian historian; born in Venice Aug. 14, 1552, embraced the monastic life, and took the vows in the religious order of the Servites in 1565. Five years later the Duke of Mantua made him his court theologian; but he was soon after summoned to be Professor of Philosophy in the Servite monastery at Venice, and there he remained rest of his life. For nine years, however (1579-1588), he was absent in Rome looking after affairs connected with the reform of the Servite order. In the dispute between the republic of Venice and Paul V. on the subject of clerical immunities Sarpi stepped forward as the valiant champion of the republic and of freedom of thought. On the repeal (1607) of the edict of excommunication launched against Venice, Sarpi was summoned to Rome to account for his conduct. He refused to obey, and was excommunicated as contumacious; and an attempt was made on his life by a band of assassins. He afterward confined himself within his monastery, ry , where he wrote "History of the Council of Trent," a "History of the Interdict," and other works. The first named was published in London in 1619 under the pseudonym of Pietro Soave Polano, an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto; and it almost immediately rose into popularity with the adversaries of Rome, as well in England as throughout the continent. He died Jan. 15, 1623.
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a large sack or bale of wool containing 80 tods; a tod contains 2 stone of 14 pounds each. SARRACENIACEÆ, in botany, the pitcher plants; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Ranales; herbaceous, perennial bog plants. Known genera two, species seven; mostly North American; one is from Guiana.
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MAURICE, a French general, the commander of the Sixth Army Corps at the outbreak of the World War. When hostilities began he was sent to the Argonne, where he organized defense of the Verdun, during the first GENERAL SARRAIL attacks made by the army of the German Crown Prince at this point, during August and September, 1914. In August, 1915, General Sarrail was sent to take command of the Allied army in Macedonia, with headquarters in Salonika. It was while under his command that the Allied forces in this region took from the Bulgarians the important city of Monastir, in December, 1915. In December, Q-Cyc 1917, General Sarrail was recalled and returned to France.
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(German Saargemünd), a town in Alsace-Lorraine, at the confluence of the Blies and the Sarre. It is 40 miles E. of Metz, and 60 miles N. W. of Strasbourg. It is noted for manufactures of plush, leather, velvet, porcelain, faïence, and papier-mache snuffboxes. Sarreguemines was originally a Roman settlement. Ceded to the Duke of Lorraine by the Count of Saarbrücken in 1297, it went to France in 1766, returned to Germany in 1871, and became French again with Alsace-Lorraine under the Versailles Treaty in 1919. Pop. about 15,000.
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BERNARD, founder of the Conservatoire de Musique of Paris, was born in Bordeaux, Nov. 27, 1765. At the commencement of the Revolution he became an officer of the Garde Nationale. After the fall of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, he gathered together forty - five Vol 8 musicians and created a corps de musique for the Garde. The municipality of Paris increased the body, and then authorized Sarrette to establish a free school, which became the Institut National de Musique, and finally the Conservatoire. Sarrette was for a time director, but for some reason, which is not quite clear, he was imprisoned for a month and a half, just before Robespierre's triumph. He never again resumed his functions, and he died in retirement at Paris, April 11, 1858.
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JEAN - MARIE - FERDI- NAND, a French statesman, was born at Bourbon-Lancy, Saône-et-Loire, in 1846. He gave up the practice of law to fight against Germany in 1870. In 1876 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and held portfolios in the cabinets of Brisson, Freycinet, and Tirard from 1885 to 1888. In 1889 he was minister of justice under Brisson. After the fall of Rouvier through disturbances connected with the operation of the Church Separation Act, he became premier and minister of justice March 14, 1906, but the real power in the cabinet (the so-called "ministry of all the talents") was CLEMENCEAU (q. v.). Sarrien retired in October, 1906.
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a form of wind instrument of the horn class. They are made en suite, of sizes and compass to pieces of take different parts in concerted pieces music, and are known as the cornets and saxhorns by names, as soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass, etc.; by the pitch, as B flat, E flat, etc.
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JOHN, an American artist; born in London, England, Oct. 24, 1808; came to the United States in 1830. and was one of the first to introduce mezzotint engraving. In 1843 he became proprietor and editor of " Campbell's Foreige Semi - Monthly Magazine, " and thereafter devoted himself to engraving and literary work. In 1848 he purchased a half interest in the "Union Magazine," afterward called "Sartain's Union Magazine," which he edited and illustrated during the four years of its existence. Subsequently he held various offices, in the Artists' Fund Society, the School of Design for Women, and the Pennsylvania Academy; was elected a member of the Society Artis et Amicitiæ in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1862, and in 1876 had charge of the art department at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. He was the author of a large number of engravings for book illustration, and engraved many historical paintings, including Rothermel's "Battle of Gettysburg" and "The Iron Worker and King Solomon"; designed the monument to Washington and Lafayette in Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia; and published interesting personal reminiscences. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1897.
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