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EDMUND, an English archæologist; born in London, England, in 1819. He was canon of Lincoln Cathedral from 1867, and wrote much on architecture and archæology, among his works being "Walks Through the Streets of Lincoln," widely popular; "History of the Isle of Wight" (1860); "The Church of England: : Its Planting, Settlement, Reformation. Renewed Life" (1886); "Bunyan" (1888). He died in Lincoln, March 5, 1895.
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von-da', a department of western France lying on the Bay of Biscay. It is a country of hills, plains, thickets, valleys, and salt marshes, a land of wheat, flax, hemp, and grapes. The inhabitants are noted in history for simplicity of manners and a stubborn loyalty to the Catholic faith and to the cause of the Bourbons. They gave the leaders of the French Revolution infinite trouble. Uprisings took place repeatedly. The broken nature of the country made it difficult to subdue them. In 1793 the Republican forces drove hordes of the peasantry into Nantes and drowned them in the Loire. The last uprising took place in 1815. See Chouans
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a color said to be a native ocher, but the colors sold under this name are prepared artificially from sulphate of iron, or its residuum in the manufacture of acids. They are all of redder and deeper hues than light red, are very permanent and have all the properties of good ochers. Scarlet ocher, Prussian red, English red, and rouge de Mars are other names for the same pigment.
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a school of painting which arose and declined in the 16th century, and of which Titian (1477- 1576) is considered the founder. Among its other masters were Giorgione (1477- 1511), Tintoretto (1512-1594), and Paul Veronese (1528-1581). The distinguishing characteristics of this school were a mastery of color and a consummate knowledge of chiaro-oscuro.
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or VENLOO, a town of the Netherlands, in Limburg, on the Meuse, at the junction of several railways. ilways. In its earlier days it was strongly fortified and was the scene of many sieges and battles, having been at different times in the possession of France, Holland, England, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Its principal industries are the manufacture of tin, lead, and tobacco, together with brewing and tanning. Pop. about 20,000. VENTILATION. See HEATING and VENTILATION.
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The wire with which a moulder pierces sand, in order to form passageways for the escape of gases. Large ones should be made fast to a crutch-handle, and the entering end for an inch high increased about 1/16 inch in diameter and pointed. The point then pierces the sand easily, and forms a passage slightly larger than the wire; which follows with little effort, there being comparatively no friction. Smaller wires will enter very freely if the end be simply cut off square across and perceptibly enlarged by a slight jumping. See VENTING.
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a change of air, resulting in a supply of fresh air. The need of ventilating rooms and approved methods are discussed under the article on HEATING AND VENTILATION. We may add here that an average adult person at rest gives off, manufactures, about .6 of a cubic foot of carbonic acid gas per hour. Outside air contains about four parts in 10,000 of this gas. The gas produced by an adult per hour, added to that already in the air, will bring the amount in 3,000 cubic feet of air up to the amount of six parts per 10,000, the limit beyond which we ought not to go. It follows, therefore, that an adult ought to be supplied with 3,000 cubic feet of air per hour or 50 per minute. Children do not vitiate air so rapidly. The amount of air that should be supplied to each person per hour may be stated in cubic feet: Class of Building Cu. feet per person each hour. Hospitals 3,000 to 4,000 High schools 3,000 Grammar schools 2,400 Theaters and assembly halls 1,500 Churches 1,200 Primary schools 2,000
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the principal town on the S. shore of the Isle of of Wight; 11 miles S. by W. of Ryde. Situated amid the finest of the fine scenery of the Undercliff, it has a S. exposure, well sheltered from the N., and so possesses a mild climate, suitable for various classes of invalids. The beach is composed of beautiful yellow shingle; and fossils are found in great quantity in the vicinity. VENTRICLES. See HEART.
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in law the place where an action is laid. In the United States, the county in which the trial of a particular cause takes place is said to be the venue of that trial. In local actions, as for damages for an actual trespass, or for waste, etc., affecting land, the plaintiff must lay his declaration, or declare his injury to have happened in the very county and place that it really did happen; but in transitory actions, for injuries that might have happened anywhere, as debt, detinue, slander, and the like, the plaintiff may declare in what county he pleases, and then the trial must be had in that county in which the declaration is laid. To lay a venue is to allege or fix a place of trial. To pray a change of venue is to petition that a cause may be tried before another judge or in another place than the one first selected.
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a most peculiar plant allied to the sundew. The plant grows only in the sandy coast plains of South Carolina . The flower stem rises from the center of a rosette of root leaves which are the peculiar part of the plant. Each leaf is narrowed to a neck near its end, the portion beyond which is widened into a sensitive, book-shaped extremity, an inch in width, surrounded by a fringe of sticky bristles and covered with a mucilage of the plant's own manufacture. When an insect lights on this surface, the leaf is irritated and the end closes up, book-fashion, like a trap and imprisons the insect. The presumption is that the plant feeds on the insect.
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