Zeno
. See Stoics
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These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Zeno, Zeno, Zeno of Cyprus.
Zeno
Emperor of the East from 474 to A. D. 491. One of the chief events of his reign, which was full of vissitudes, was the permission given by him to Theodoric to dethrone Odoacer, which led to the establishment of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy.
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Zeno (Celebrated philosopher)
A celebrated philosopher, the founder of the sect of Stoics, who was born at Citium in Cyprus . He opened a school in Athens , and soon became noticed by the great and learned. His life was devoted to sobriety and moderation. He died at the age of ninety-eight, B. C. 264.
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Zeno (Philosopher of Elea or Velia)
A philosopher of Elea or Velia, in Italy. He was the disciple, or, according to some, the adopted son of Parmenides. Being tortured to cause him to reveal his confederates in a plot he had engaged in, he bit off his tongue that he might not betray his friends.
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Zeno of Cyprus
a Greek philosopher, founder of the Stoic school; born in Citium, a small town in Cyprus, probably about 355 b. c. MOUNTAIN ZEBRA
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Zepar
Grand duke of the infernal empire, who may be identical with Vepar, or Separ. Nevertheless, under the name of Zepar he has the form of a warrior. He casts men into the evil passions. Twenty-eight legions obey him.
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Zephaniah
a prophet, son of Cushi, who again was the son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah (the king?).
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Zephyrus
The personification of the west wind, who is described by Hesiod as a son of Astraeus and Eos. Zetes and Calais. Sons of Boreas and Orithyia , frequently called the Boreadae, who are mentioned among the Argonauts, and described as winged beings.
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Zerbst
a town of Germany in the republic of Anhalt, formerly capital of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst; on the Nuthe, 2614 miles S. E. of. Magdeburg. The chief buildings are the Nikolaikirche, dating from the 15th century; the great Schloss, surrounded with a park; and the stately old Rathhaus, dating from the 15th century, but disfigured by additions in 1610, standing in the market place, in the center of which are the Roland column (1445), and the Butterjungfer, a slender column bearing a female figure. Zerbst contains a gymnasium of high repute-the Francisceum and has manufactures of silks, plush, cloth, leather, gloves, gold and silver lace, soap, starch, essences, tobacco, chemicals, pottery, umbrellas, musical instruments, and machinery. Gardening, iron founding, and beer brewing are also carried on.
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Zermatt
an important center for tourists in Switzerland; a small village near the upper end of the Visp valley in Valais; 25 miles S. S. W.. of Visp. It stands 5,315 feet above the sea, having to the S. the great Théodule glacier, above which towers the Breithorn on the E. and beyond the Monte Rosa group, and on the W. the rocky cone of the Matterhorn. Railway communication was opened in 1890. The churchyard contains the graves of many of the victims of mountaineering. The Théodule Pass or Matterjoch (10,899 feet) leads to Aosta in Italy.
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Zero
in common language, nothing; in arithmetic it is called naught, and means no number; in algebra, it stands for no quantity, or for a quantity less than any assignable quantity; a cipher; nothing, ing, denoted by 0. In astronomy, the first point of ARIES (q. v.).
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Zerrahn
CARL, an American musical conductor; born in Malchow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, July 28, 1826; came to the United States with the Germania Orchestra in 1848; became musical director of the Handel and Hayden Society of Boston in 1854; was conductor of the Harvard symphony concerts in 1866-1882; and for many years directed the famous annual musical festivals at Worcester, Mass. He edited "The Index," "The Apograph," "The Atlas," "Carl Zerrahn's Selections," etc. He died in 1909. ZEUS
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Zeuss
JOHANN KASPAR (tsois), a German historian; born in Vogtendorf, Upper Franconia, July 22, 1806. Among his works are: "The Germans and the Neighbor Stocks" (1837); "The Descent of the Bavarians from the Marcomanni" (1839); "Witzenburg Traditions and Possessions" (1842); "The Free Imperial City of Spires from Its Destruction" (1843); "Celtic Grammar" (2 vols. 1853), his greatest work. He died in Vogtendorf, Nov. 10, 1856.
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Zhukovski
JOUKOVSKI, or SHUKOWS, VASILII ANDREEVICH, a famous Russian poet; born near Bielev, province of Penza, in 1783. He succeeded Karamzin as editor of the "Viestnik Evropui," 1808; was preceptor of the Emperor Alexander II. in his youth, as well of Alexander's mother. He wrote: "The Minstrel in the Russian Camp," a collection of spirited war ballads; "Ziudmilla," "Svietlana," his best work; etc.; and a number of prose essays and tales, the best known of which was "Mary's Grove." He made also numerous translations from the German, English, etc.; .; his translation of Gray's 's y" being one "Elegy" of the finest ever made. He died in 1852.
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Ziegler
THEOBALD, a German philosophical writer; born in Göppingen, Württemberg, Feb. 9, 1846. He became Professor of Philosophy in the University of Strassbu urg in 1886. He was author of: "With Regard to Strauss's the Old Faith and the New" (1874); "Text-Book of Logic" (1876); "Republic or Monarchy: Switzerland or Germany" (1877); "History of Ethics" (1881); "The Social Question a Moral Question" (1891); "The German Student at the End of the Nineteenth Century" (6th ed. 1896).
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Zierikzee
a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, and the chief town of the island of Schouwen, 3 miles from the Ooster Schelde (with which it is connected by two canal harbors), and 21 miles E. N. E. of Flushing. It has six churches, a fine town house, and a gymnasium, manufactures madder, carries on brewing and oyster fishing, and has considerable trade and shipping. It is the oldest town of Zeeland, and was formerly an important Hanse town.
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Zimbabye
or GREAT ZIMBABWE (zēm-bäb-wa), a notable ruin in Mashonaland; in lat. 20° 16′ 30″ S., and long. 31° 10′ 10″ E.; 3,300 feet above sealevel. It is the principal of a series of similar remains along the W. side of the Sabi river, and consists of a large elliptical building (280 feet long, with walls 35 feet high and 16 feet thick) on a gentle rise, with building extending into the valley, and an immensely strong labyrinthine fortress on the opposite hill, 400 feet above. The older buildings are beautiful examples of dry There is a considerable number of little masonry. images of the solar disk; while the two conical towers in the sacred inclosure on the lower hill, as well as the chevron ornamentation there, and various objects found in the citadel point to phallic forms of worship. The ruins evidently formed a garrison for the protection of a gold-producing race in remote antiquity, of whose work many traces have been found a smelting furnace made of hard cement, clay crucibles with little specks of gold adhering, on ingot mold of soapstone, burnishers, crushers carved soapstone birds, etc. Theodore Bent, who explored the ruins in 1891, assigned this enterprise to pre-Mohammedan Arabians (with possibly Phœnician influences), as both the objects of art and the special cult indicated are utterly foreign to the African races. K. Mauch would identify the region with the OPHIR (q. v.) of Solomon's time.
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