These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Vitre, Vitruvius, Vitus.
an ancient town of Brittany, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine; on the Vilaine; 24 miles E. of Rennes. It is partly surrounded with ramparts, and contains the ruined castle of the Tremouilles. Rochers, the residence of Madame de Sévigné, is 3½ miles S. Manufactures of cloth and hats are carried on. Pop. about 10,000.
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POLLIO, a Roman architect of the age of Augustus; celebrated as the author of the only Latin treatise on architecture which has come down to modern times. Of the details of his life but little is known, and that little is due to incidental allusions in his own work. That he was fairly well acquainted with Greek and Latin literature; that he served as a military engineer in Africa; that he obtained the direct patronage of the reigning emperor (Augustus, according to the consent of modern scholars, but Titus, according to an older opinion advocated by Newton); and that he composed his treatise in his old age to guide the judgment of his patron in matters of architecture are the principal facts that are thus preserved. The "Architecture" was probably completed 14 B. C. Besides the subjects strictly included under the title, it treats of water and aqueducts, sundials and machines. The style is a very bad one; at times perplexingly diffuse, and again as perplexingly curt, with an almost total absence of true literary grace; but the matter is of great value as being largely an epitome of treatises by Greek architectural writers. The authoritative MSS. are the Harleian of the 9th tury and the Gordianus of the 11th. The first edition was by Sulpicius at Rome between 1484 and 1492; and the best of recent editions is by Reber (Stuttgart, 1864).
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ST., a reputed martyr under Diocletian, the son of a Sicilian pagan, but converted by his nurse Crescentia and her husband Modestus. All three perished together, in Lucania, or at Rome, the festival falling on June 15. The relics of St. Vitus are preserved at Corbey and at Prague. He is invoked against sudden death, hydrophobia, prolonged sleep, and the complaint commonly called the chorea or dance of St. Vitus; some authorities make him also the patron of comedians and dancers. It is said that in Germany in the 17th century it was a popular belief that good health for a year could be bought by bringing gifts to his image and dancing before it on his festival-a practice especially in vogue at his chapels at Ulm and Ravensburg.
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ST. See CHOREA.
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the chief town of the district of the same name, in Madras presidency, British India; on the seacoast; 380 miles N. E. of Madras. It stands at the head of a bay, on a small river, and carries on a large coasting trade. One of the points of the bay, called the Dolphin's Nose, rises 1,500 feet above the sea. A British factory was settled there in the middle of the 17th century. There are special manufactures of cotton cloth, gold and silver embroidery, silver, ivory and horn ornaments. The exports are chiefly piece goods, oil seeds, and sugar. Pop. about 45,000. The district of V Vizagapatam occupies the strip below the Eastern Ghauts S. of Ganjam and the wild hill country behind; area, 18,344 square miles. The hills rise to the height of 5,- 000 feet. The crops are rice, oil seeds, sugar cane and tobacco. Sugar is extensively manufactured under European superintendence. This tract formed one of the northern Circars occupied by the British in 1767, and includes the semiindependent states of the Jeypur agency. i
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HENRY RICHARD, an English publisher; born in London, July 30, 1820. He was the first publisher to introduce to English readers "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and the works of Poe, Tolstoi, and Zola, being prosecuted and imprisoned for bringing out the novels of French realist. In 1843 he founded the "Pictorial Times," one of the pioneer journals of the British pictorial press. He acted as Paris correspondent of the "Illustrated London News" (1866-1876), and represented d the government at foreign expositions. His earliest work, "The Story of the Diamond Necklace" (1867), a sketch of the Countess de la Motte, was followed by a translation of Topin's "Ma "Man With the Iron Mask" (18 ; "Berlin Under the New Em- (1879); pire" (1879); "Paris in Peril" (1882), a vivid account of the siege of 1870-1871; "A History of ," a Champagne monograph on wines; "Glances Back Through Seventy Years" (1893). He died in Tilford ford , near Farnham, England, in 1894.
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a town of Portugal, in a district of the same name, province of Beira; 50 miles N. N. E. of Coimbra. It is old, irregularly built on a hill, and contains a cathedral with fine paintings, also a college, hospital and theater. There are two large squares, in one of which a great market is held in September. Among many Roman and Moorish remains is a Roman camp, the Cava de Viriatho, where Junius Brutus was defeated by Viriathus. Pop. 7,000.
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a town in the district of Vizagapatam, Madras presidency, British India; 35 miles N. of Vizagapatam, and 12 miles from the sea-coast. In the fort is the palace of the Rajah of Vizianagram, a Rajput family which figures largely in the early history of the British in Madras. Pop. about 40,000.
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capital of the former Russian province of Terek, in northern Caucasia, at the foot of the main Caucasus chain, and at the opening of the valley of the Terek. It is the terminus in this direction of the Russian railway system, and is on the only carriage road through the Dariel Pass to Tiflis and the S. of the mountains. There is a fortress here. and considerable trade. The inhabitants are Cossacks, Armenians, and a motley representation of various Asiatic races. Pop. about 80,000.
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a province of Russia, surrounded by Jaroslav, Kostroma, Nijni Novgorod, Riazan, Moscow, and Tver; area, 18,862 square miles. The surface consists of level and undulating plains, and the soil is fertile. About 32 per cent. is covered with pine forests. The whole province is drained by the system of the Oka, which flows for 82 miles through Vladimir, and receives from the left the Kliasma, with its navigable tributary, the Tesa. The largest lake is Plechejevo, which receives the Trubesh, and sends the Great Nerl to the Volga. The principal crops raised are buckwheat, rye, oats, potatoes, pulse, flax, cherries, and onions. In industrial activity, Vladimir ranked next to Moscow and Petrograd before the World War. Its manufactures included paper, crystal, glass, chemicals, brandy, cotton, linen, and woolen fabrics, ics, and metal wares, chiefly knives, chisels, locks, gimlets and reaping hooks. The forests yielded timber, pitch, and tar. A special industry of Vladimir was the manufacture of icons. Pop. about 1,800,000.
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