These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Vertue, Vervain, Verviers.
GEORGE, an English engraver, born in Westminster, in 1684. He enjoyed the patronage of Sir Godfrey Kneller, and became engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1717. His best known works include 12 portraits of poets and 10 portraits of Charles I. and his friends. He died in London, July 24, 1756.
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A sacred herb with which the altars of Jupiter were sprinkled. Water containing vervain was also sprinkled in houses to cast out evil spirits. Among the druids particularly it was employed in connection with many forms of superstition. They gathered it at day-break, before the sun had risen. Later sorcerers followed the same usage, and the demonologists believe that in order to evoke demons it is necessary to be crowned with vervain.
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a town of Belgium; in the province of Liège, on the Vesdre, 14 miles E. S. E. of Liège. It is celebrated for its manufacture of broadcloth, which is the staple of the town. There are also cotton, leather and other manufactures. The Germans first entered Belgium in 1914 through this city. Pop. about 50,000.
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JONES, an American poet; born in Salem, Mass., Aug. 28, 1813; published some essays and poems in 1839, and was a contributor to the "Christian Register," a monthly religious magazine, and other journals. A complete edition of his "Essays and Poems," with a biographical note of the author, was published by James Freeman Clark, Boston, 1886. He died in Salem, May 8, 1880.
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so called from Vesper, the evening star, was also called hora lucerna ("lamp hour"). Originally, like that of all the canonical hours, of which at first it was the last, the service consisted of the singing of three psalms intermixed with some prayers. According to the account of all the serv ices given in the Apostolic Constitutions, that for vespers opened with the 140th (141st) Psalm, which was followed by a prayer. A collect was next said by the bishop, and a benediction pronounced on the people, who were then dismissed. But different churches had different usages, and in some lessons were read, hymns sung, and other prayers offered.
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AMERIGO, or AMERI- CUS VESPUCIUS, an Italian navigator, eponymus of the New World; born in Florence, Italy, March 9, 1451. The question of the date of his voyage has been disputed for centuries. According to one account he reached South America in Ju June, 1497, or 14 months earlier than its discovery by Columbus. His "Letters" (1502), giving an account of his voyages, especially of the voyage of 1501, were translated into Latin, Italian, French, and German, and were widely circulated. He wrote a diary called "The Four Journals," after his fourth voyage. AMERIGO VESPUCCI The suggestion to name the newly discovered continent "America" was first offered by Martin Waldseemüller of St. Dié in Lorraine, in his work "Introduction to Cosmography" (1507). He died at Seville, Spain, Feb. 22, 1512.
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GEORGE GRAHAM, an American lawyer; born in Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 6, 1830; was graduated at Center College, Ky., in 1848, and at the Law Department of Transylvania University, Ky., in 1853; settled in Missouri in the latter year and there began the practice of law; was a member of the Confederate Congress for three years; and was elected to the United States Senate from 1879 to just before his death in 1904.
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SACRED. The use by the priesthood of a distinctive costume in public worship formed a part not only of the Jewish, but of almost all the ancient religions. Generally speaking, in
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(See Magic.) Vidya in Theosophy is the knowledge by which man on the Path can discern the true from the false and so direct his efforts aright by means of the mental faculties which he Villars has learnt to use. It is the antithesis of Avidya. (See Path, Avidya, and Theosophy.)
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LUCIA ELIZABETH, an English actress; the granddaughter of Bartolozzi, the engraver; born in London, January, 1797. Accomplished in music, French, and Italian, she married at 16 Armand Vestris, ballet-dancer, member of an originally Florentine family that gave to France a series of distinguished cooks, actors, and balletdancers. Three years later she separated from her husband and went on the stage in Paris (1815), attaining fair success. In 1820 she appeared at Drury Lane, London, soon became famous in "The Haunted Tower," was even more popular as Phoebe in "Paul Pry," and in light comedy and burlesque was uniformly successful. She was lessee of the Olympic when in 1838 she married Charles James Mathews, and she afterward undertook the management of and Lyceum. She re- Covent Garden the tired in 1854, and died in Gore Lodge, Fulham, England, Aug. 8, 1856.
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a room adjoining a church where the vestments of the clergy are kept ept. Hence the place of meeting of those having the charge of parochial affairs, and collectively the persons themselves to whom these affairs are in- In England, the minister, trusted. church wardens, and chief men of a parish generally constitute a vestry, and the minister, whether rector, vicar, or perpetual curate, is ex-officio chairman. The powers of the vestry include the expenditure of the parish funds, the repairing or alteration of churches or chapels, and the appointing of certain parish officers. In London the vestries are highly important bodies. In the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States a committee is chosen annually by the parish, who, in conjunction with the church wardens, manage its temporal concerns.
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a town of Hungary, at the N. end of Platten See; 22 miles W. of Stuhlweissenburg. It has a cathedral, a magnificent building of the 14th century, the episcopal palace with the chapel of Queen Gisela, a gymnasium, a college of the Piarist monks, and a tall minaret-the only relic of Turkish occupation. Breweries, corn mills, flannel weaving, spinning, and iron works are the chief industries. The vine is cultivated. Veszprem, which under the Romans had the name of Cimbriana, was once a royal residence. The Hungarians took it in 14 1491, the Turks in 1552, and it was joined to the empire in 1683. Pop. about 15,000.
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