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The Reverend James Wood edited the Nuttall Encyclopaedia in 1907. It contains over 16,000 entries "and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias, and specially dealing with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art". The entries are brief and helpful for a quick look at the topics covered."
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
ACRE, ST. JEAN D'
ACRE, ST. JEAN D' (7), a strong place and seaport in Syria, at the foot of Mount Carmel, taken, at an enormous sacrifice of life, by Philip Augustus and Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191, held out against Bonaparte in 1799; its ancient name Ptolemaïs.
ACRASIA
ACRASIA, an impersonation in Spenser's "Faërie Queen," of intemperance in the guise of a beautiful sorceress.
ACOUSTICS
ACOUSTICS, the science of sound as it affects the ear, specially of the laws to be observed in the construction of halls so that people may distinctly hear in them.
ACORN-SHELLS
ACORN-SHELLS, a crustacean attached to rocks on the sea-shore, described by Huxley as "fixed by its head," and "kicking its food into its mouth with its legs."
ACONITINE
ACONITINE, a most virulent poison from aconite, and owing to thevery small quantity sufficient to cause death, is very difficult of detection when employed in taking away life.
ACONCAGUA (ACONCA`GUA)
ACONCA`GUA, the highest peak of the Andes, about 100 m. NE. of Valparaiso, 22,867 ft. high; recently ascended by a Swiss and a Scotchman, attendants of Fitzgerald's party.
ACOEMETÆ (ACOEMETAE)
ACOEMETÆ, an order of monks in the 5th century who by turns kept up a divine service day and night.
ACNE
ACNE, a skin disease showing hard reddish pimples; ACNE ROSACEA, a congestion of the skin of the nose and parts adjoining.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
ACLAND, SIR HENRY
ACLAND, SIR HENRY, regius professor of medicine in Oxford, accompanied the Prince of Wales to America in 1860, the author of several works on medicine and educational subjects, one of Ruskin's old and tried friends (1815).
ACK`ERMANN, R.
ACK`ERMANN, R., an enterprising publisher of illustrated works in the Strand, a native of Saxony (1764-1834).
A`CIS
A`CIS, a Sicilian shepherd enamoured of Galatea, whom the Cyclops Polyphemus, out of jealousy, overwhelmed under a rock, from under which his blood has since flowed as a river.
A`CI-REA`LË
A`CI-REA`LË (38), a seaport town in Sicily, at the foot of Mount Etna, in NE. of Catania, with mineral waters.
ACHROMATISM
ACHROMATISM, transmission of light, undecomposed and free from colour, by means of a combination of dissimilar lenses of crown and flint glass, or by a single glass carefully prepared.
ACH`MET I.
ACH`MET I., sultan of Turkey from 1603 to 1617; A. II., from 1691 to 1695; A. III., from 1703 to 1730, who gave asylum to Charles XII. of Sweden after his defeat by the Czar at Pultowa.
ACHMED PASHA
ACHMED PASHA, a French adventurer, served in French army, condemned to death, fled, and served Austria; condemned to death a second time, pardoned, served under the sultan, was banished to the shores of the Black Sea (1675-1747).
ACHILLES OF GERMANY
ACHILLES OF GERMANY, Albert, third elector of Brandenburg, "fiery, tough old gentleman, of formidable talent for fighting in his day; a very blazing, far-seen character," says Carlyle (1414-1486).
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
ACHIL`LES
ACHIL`LES, the son of Peleus and Thetis, king of the Myrmidons, the most famous of the Greek heroes in the Trojan war, and whose wrath with the consequences of it forms the subject of the Iliad of Homer. He was invulnerable except in the heel, at the point where his mother held him as she dipt his body in the Styx to render him invulnerable.
External links:
Achilles - Wikipedia
External links:
Achilles - Wikipedia
ACH`ILL
ACH`ILL, a rocky, boggy island, sparsely inhabited, off W. coast of Ireland, co. Mayo, with a bold headland 2222 ft. high.
ACH`ERON
ACH`ERON, a river in the underworld; the name of several rivers in Greece more or less suggestive of it.
ACHELO`ÜS
ACHELO`ÜS, a river in Greece, which rises in Mt. Pindus, and falls into the Ionian Sea; also the god of the river, the oldest of the sons of Oceanus, and the father of the Sirens.
ACHA`TES
ACHA`TES, the attendant of Æneas in his wandering after the fall of Troy, remarkable for, and a perennial type of, fidelity.
Monday, June 23, 2008
ACHARD
ACHARD, a Prussian chemist, one of the first to manufacture sugar from beetroot (1753-1821).
External Links:
Franz Karl Achard - Wikipedia
External Links:
Franz Karl Achard - Wikipedia
Monday, June 9, 2008
ACHÆAN LEAGUE
ACHÆAN LEAGUE, a confederation of 12 towns in the Peloponnesus, formed especially against the influence of the Macedonians.
External Links:
Achaean League - Wikipedia
Achaean League - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911
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Achaean League - Wikipedia
Achaean League - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911
ACET`YLENE
ACET`YLENE, a malodorous gaseous substance from the incomplete combustion of hydro-carbons.
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Acetylene - Wikipedia
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Acetylene - Wikipedia
ACETIC ACID
ACETIC ACID, the pure acid of vinegar; the salts are called _acetates_.
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Acetic Acid (ethanoic acid) - Wikipedia
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Acetic Acid (ethanoic acid) - Wikipedia
Friday, June 6, 2008
ACCUMULATOR
ACCUMULATOR, a hydraulic press for storing up water at a high pressure; also a device for storing up electric energy.
External Links:
Hydraulic Accumulator - Wikipedia
External Links:
Hydraulic Accumulator - Wikipedia
ACCUM, FRIEDRICH
ACCUM, FRIEDRICH, a German chemist, the first promoter of gas-lighting (1769-1838).
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Friedrich Accum - Wikipedia
External Links:
Friedrich Accum - Wikipedia
Saturday, May 24, 2008
ACCOR`SO
ACCOR`SO, the name of a Florentine family, of 12th and 13th centuries, great in jurisprudence.
Friday, May 23, 2008
ACCA-LAURENTIA
ACCA-LAURENTIA, the wife of Faustulus, shepherd of Numitor, who saved the lives of Romulus and Remus.
External Links:
Acca-Laurentia - Wikipedia
Acca Laurentia - Roman Myth Index
Acca Laurentia - The Free Dictionary by Fairfax
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Acca-Laurentia - Wikipedia
Acca Laurentia - Roman Myth Index
Acca Laurentia - The Free Dictionary by Fairfax
ACCA`DIANS
ACCA`DIANS, a dark, thick-lipped, short-statured Mongol race in Central Asia, displaced by the Babylonians and Assyrians, who were Semitic.
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Accadians - Wikipedia
External Links:
Accadians - Wikipedia
ACARNA`NIA
ACARNA`NIA, a province of Greece N. of Gulf of Corinth; its pop. once addicted to piracy.
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Acarnania - Wikipedia
External Links:
Acarnania - Wikipedia
ACADEMY
ACADEMY, a public shady park or place of groves near Athens, where Plato taught his philosophy and whence his school derived its name, of which there are three branches, the _Old_, the _Middle_, and the _New_,represented respectively by Plato himself, Arcesilaos, and Carneades. The_French Academy_, of forty members, was founded by Richelieu in 1635, and is charged with the interests of the French language and literature, and in particular with the duty of compiling an authoritative dictionary of the French language. Besides these, there are in France other four with a like limited membership in the interest of other departments of science and art, all now associated in the _Institute of France_, which consists in all of 229 members. There are similar institutions in other states of Europe, all of greater or less note.
ABYSSIN`IA
ABYSSIN`IA, a mountainous country SE. of Nubia, with an area of 200,000 sq. m., made up of independent states, and a mixed population of some four millions, the Abyssinians proper being of the Semite stock. It is practically under the protectorate of Italy.
External Links:
Abyssinia (Ethiopia) - Wikipedia
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Abyssinia (Ethiopia) - Wikipedia
Sunday, May 11, 2008
ABY`DOS
ABY`DOS, a town on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont, famous as the home of Leander, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit Hero in Sestos, and as the spot where Xerxes built his bridge of boats to cross into Europe in 480 B.C.; also a place of note in Upper Egypt.
ABU-THA`LEB
ABU-THA`LEB, uncle of Mahomet, and his protector against the plots of his enemies the Koreish.
ABUL-FEDA
ABUL-FEDA, a Moslem prince of Hamat in Syria, who in his youth took part against the Crusaders, and wrote historical works in Arabic (1273-1331).
ABUL-FAZEL
ABUL-FAZEL, the vizier of the great Mogul emperor Akbar, and who wrote an account of his reign and of the Mogul empire; he was assassinated in 1604.
A`BUL-FARAJ
A`BUL-FARAJ, a learned Armenian Jew, who became bishop of Aleppo, and wrote a history of the world from Adam onwards (1226-1286).
AB`U-KLEA
AB`U-KLEA, in the Soudan, where the Mahdi's forces were defeated by Sir H. Stewart in 1885.
AB`UBEKR
AB`UBEKR, as the father of Ayesha, the father-in-law of Mahomet, the first of the caliphs and the founder of the Sunnites; _d_. 634.
ABU
ABU, a mountain (6000 ft.) in Rajputana, with a footprint of Vishnu on the top, and two marble temples half-way up, held sacred by the Jains.
ABSYRTUS
ABSYRTUS, a brother of Medea, whom she cut in pieces as she fled with Jason, pursued by her father, throwing his bones behind her to detain her father in his pursuit of her by stopping to pick them up.
ABSOLUTE, THE
ABSOLUTE, THE, the philosophical name for the uncreated Creator, or creating cause of all things, dependent on nothing external to itself.
ABSALOM
ABSALOM, a son of David, who rebelled against his father, and at whose death David gave vent to a bitter wail of grief. A name given by Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II.
ABRAN`TES
ABRAN`TES, a town in Portugal, on the Tagus; taken by Marshal Junot, 1807, and giving the title of Duke to him.
ABRAHAM-MEN
ABRAHAM-MEN, a class of lunatics allowed out of restraint, at one time, to roam about and beg; a set of impostors who wandered about the country affecting lunacy.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
ABOU`KIR
ABOU`KIR, village near Alexandria, in Egypt, on the bay near which Nelson destroyed the French fleet in 1799; where Napoleon beat the Turks, 1799; and where Abercrombie fell, 1801.
ABLE MAN
ABLE MAN, man with "a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute" (Gibbon).
ABICH, W. H.
ABICH, W. H., a German mineralogist and traveller (1806-1886).
External Links:
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich - Wikipedia
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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich - Wikipedia
Friday, May 9, 2008
ABHORRERS
ABHORRERS, the Royalist and High Church party in England under Charles II., so called from their abhorrence of the principles of their opponents.
AB`GAR XIV.
AB`GAR XIV., a king of Edessa, one of a dynasty of the name, a contemporary of Jesus Christ, and said to have corresponded with Him.
External Links:
Ab'gar XIV - Wikipedia
External Links:
Ab'gar XIV - Wikipedia
ABERRATION OF LIGHT
ABERRATION OF LIGHT, an apparent motion in a star due to the earth's motion and the progressive motion of light.
ABERNETHY
ABERNETHY, a small burgh in S. Perthshire, with a Pictish round tower, and once the capital of the Pictish kingdom.
ABERDEENSHIRE
ABERDEENSHIRE (281), a large county in NE. of Scotland; mountainous in SW., lowland N. and E.; famed for its granite quarries, its fisheries, and its breed of cattle.
External Links
Aberdeenshire - Wikipedia
External Links
Aberdeenshire - Wikipedia
ABERDEEN, EARL OF
ABERDEEN, EARL OF, a shrewd English statesman, Prime Minister of England during the Crimean war (1784-1860).--Grandson of the preceding, Gov.-Gen. of Canada; _b_. 1847.
ABERDEEN
ABERDEEN (124), the fourth city in Scotland, on the E. coast,between the mouths of the Dee and Don; built of grey granite, with many fine public edifices, a flourishing university, a large trade, and thriving manufactures. Old Aberdeen, on the Don, now incorporated in the municipality, is the seat of a cathedral church, and of King's College, founded in 1404, united with the university in the new town.
External Links:
Aberdeen - Wikipedia
External Links:
Aberdeen - Wikipedia
ABERCROMBIE, SIR RALPH
ABERCROMBIE, SIR RALPH, a distinguished British general of Scottish birth, who fell in Egypt after defeating the French at Aboukir Bay (1731-1801).
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Ralph Abercrombie - Wikipedia
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Ralph Abercrombie - Wikipedia
Thursday, May 8, 2008
ABEN-EZ`RA
ABEN-EZ`RA, a learned Spanish Jew and commentator on the Hebrew scriptures (1090-1168).
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Abraham ibn Ezra - Wikipedia
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Abraham ibn Ezra - Wikipedia
ABENCERRA`GES
ABENCERRA`GES, a powerful Moorish tribe in Grenada, whose fate in the 15th century has been the subject of interesting romance.
AB`ELARD, PETER
AB`ELARD, PETER, a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his dialectic ability, his learning, his passion for Héloïse, and his misfortunes; made conceivability the test of credibility, and was a great teacher in his day (1079-1142).
External Links:
Peter Abelard - Wikipedia
External Links:
Peter Abelard - Wikipedia
ABEL
ABEL, the second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother. The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.
À'BECKET, GILBERT
À'BECKET, GILBERT, an English humourist, who contributed to _Punch_and other organs; wrote the "Comic Blackstone" and comic histories of England and Rome (1811-1856).
ABD-UL-MED`JID
ABD-UL-MED`JID, sultan, father of the two preceding, in whose defence against Russia England and France undertook the Crimean war (1823-1861).
ABDUL-HA`MID II.
ABDUL-HA`MID II., sultan of Turkey in 1876, brother to Abdul-Aziz, and his successor; under him Turkey has suffered serious dismemberment, and the Christian subjects in Armenia and Crete been cruelly massacred; _b_. 1842.
ABDICATIONS
ABDICATIONS, of which the most celebrated are those of the Roman Dictator Sylla, who in 70 B.C. retired to Puteoli; of Diocletian, who in A.D. 305 retired to Salone; of Charles V., who in 1556 retired to the monastery St. Yuste; of Christina of Sweden, who in 1654 retired to Rome, after passing some time in France; of Napoleon, who in 1814 and 1815 retired first to Elba and then died at St. Helena; of Charles X. in 1830, who died at Goritz, in Austria; and of Louis Philippe, who in 1848 retired to end his days in England.
ABD-EL-KA`DIR
ABD-EL-KA`DIR, an Arab emir, who for fifteen years waged war against the French in N. Africa, but at length surrendered prisoner to them in 1847. On his release in 1852 he became a faithful friend of France (1807-1883).
ABDALRAH`MAN
ABDALRAH`MAN, the Moorish governor of Spain, defeated by Charles Martel at Tours in 732.
ABDAL`LAH
ABDAL`LAH, the father of Mahomet, famed for his beauty (545-570); also a caliph of Mecca (622-692).
ABBOTT, EDWIN
ABBOTT, EDWIN, a learned Broad Church theologian and man of letters; wrote, besides other works, a volume of sermons "Through Nature to Christ"; esteemed insistence on miracles injurious to faith; _b_. 1838.
ABBOTSFORD
ABBOTSFORD, the residence of Sir Walter Scott, on the Tweed, near Melrose, built by him on the site of a farm called Clarty Hole.
ABBOT, GEORGE
ABBOT, GEORGE, archbishop of Canterbury in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., and one of the translators of King James's Bible; an enemy of Laud's, who succeeded him (1562-1633).
ABBOT
ABBOT, head of an abbey. There were two classes of abbots: Abbots Regular, as being such in fact, and Abbots Commendatory, as guardians and drawing the revenues.
ABBEVILLE
ABBEVILLE (19), a thriving old town on the Somme, 12 m. up, with an interesting house architecture, and a cathedral, unfinished, in the Flamboyant style.
ABBÉ
ABBÉ, name of a class of men who in France prior to the Revolution prepared themselves by study of theology for preferment in the Church, and who, failing, gave themselves up to letters or science.
ABBAS-MIRZA
ABBAS-MIRZA, a Persian prince, a reformer of the Persian army, and a leader of it, unsuccessfully, however, against Russia (1783-1833).
ABBAS THE GREAT
ABBAS THE GREAT, shah of Persia, of the dynasty of the Sophis, great alike in conquest and administration (1557-1628).
ABBAS PASHA
ABBAS PASHA, the khedive of Egypt, studied five years in Vienna, ascended the throne at eighteen, accession hailed with enthusiasm; shows at times an equivocal attitude to Britain; _b_. 1874.
ABBADIE
ABBADIE, two brothers of French descent, Abyssinian travellers in the years 1837-1848; also a French Protestant divine (1658-1727).
ABAUZIT, FIRMIN
ABAUZIT, FIRMIN, a French Protestant theologian and a mathematician, a friend of Newton, and much esteemed for his learning by Rousseau and Voltaire (1679-1767).
ABARIM
ABARIM, a mountain chain in Palestine, NE. of the Dead Sea, the highest point being Mount Nebo.
AARON
AARON, the elder brother of Moses, and the first high-priest of the Jews, an office he held for forty years.
AARHUUS
AARHUUS (33), a port on the E. of Jutland, with a considerable export and import trade, and a fine old Gothic cathedral.
AAR
AAR, a large Swiss river about 200 m. long, which falls into the Rhine as it leaves Switzerland.
Introduction
The Rev'd James Wood edited the Nuttall Encyclopaedia back in 1907. It contains over 16,000 entries "and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias, and specially dealing with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art". The entries are brief and helpful for a quick look at the topics covered."
The edition of the Nuttall Encyclopaedia posted on this blog is from the public domain.
The edition of the Nuttall Encyclopaedia posted on this blog is from the public domain.
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