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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA&q
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedi
- 164 DION OF SYRACUSE, a pupil of Plato, and an austere man; was from his austerity obnoxious to his pleasure-loving nephew, Dionysius the Younger; subjected to banishment; went to Athens; learned his estates had been confiscated, and his wife given to another
- 163 DIKe (i. e. Justice), a Greek G.o.ddess, the daughter of Zeus and Themis; the guardian of justice and judgment, the foe of deceit and violence, and the accuser before Zeus of the unjust judge.DIKTYS, the fisherman of Seriphus; saved Perseus and his mother
- 162 DIBDIN, CHARLES, musician, dramatist, and song-writer, born in Southampton; began life as an actor; invented a dramatic entertainment consisting of music, songs, and recitations, in which he was the sole performer, and of which he was for the most part th
- 161 DE WITT, JAN, a Dutch statesman, born at Dort; elected grand pensionary in 1652; like his father, Jacob de Witt, before him, was a declared enemy of the House of Orange, and opposed the Stadtholders.h.i.+p, and for a time he carried the country along with
- 160 DESMOND, EARLDOM OF, an Irish t.i.tle long extinct by the death of the last earl in 1583; he had rebelled against Elizabeth's government, been proclaimed, and had taken refuge in a peasant's cabin, and been betrayed.DES MOINES (62), the largest
- 159 DENNIS, JOHN, a would-be dramatist and critic, born in London, in constant broils with the wits of his time; his productions were worth little, and he is chiefly remembered for his attacks on Addison and Pope, and for the ridicule these attacks brought do
- 158 DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS, an eminent Athenian orator, statesman, and historian, born at Phalerus, a seaport of Athens; was held in high honour in Athens for a time as its political head, but fell into dishonour, after which he lived retired and gave himself up
- 157 DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, mountains covered with sheep in the "Pilgrim's Progress," from which the pilgrim obtains a view of the Celestial City.DELESCLUZE, a French Communist, born at Dreux; was imprisoned and transported for his extreme opinio
- 156 DECA'TUR, STEPHEN, an American naval commodore; distinguished for his feats of valour displayed in the war with Tripoli and with England (1779-1820).DECCAN, a triangular plateau of from 2000 to 3000 ft. of elevation in the Indian peninsula, extending
- 155 DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President of the Confederate States, born in Kentucky; entered the army; fought against the Indians; turned cotton-planter; entered Congress as a Democrat; distinguished himself in the Mexican war; defended slave-holding and the interest
- 154 DASH, COUNTESS, the _nom de plume_ of the Viscountess de Saint-Mars, a French novelist, born at Poitiers; in straits for a living, took desperately to writing; treated of aristocratic life and its hollow artificialities and immoralities (1804-1872).DASHKO
- 153 DAPHNIS, a Sicilian shepherd, the mythical inventor of pastoral poetry.DAPSANG, the highest of the Karakorum Mountains.D'ARBLAY, MADAME, a distinguished novelist, daughter of Dr. Burney, the historian of music; auth.o.r.ess of "Evelina" and
- 152 DANAe, daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos, confined by her father in an inaccessible tower of bra.s.s to prevent the fulfilment of an oracle that she should be the mother of a son who would kill him, but Zeus found access to her in the form of a shower o
- 151 DALAI-LAMA, chief priest of Lamaism, reverenced as a living incarnation of deity, always present on earth in him. See LAMAISM.DALAYRAC, celebrated French composer; author of a number of comic operas (1753-1809).DALBERG, BARON DE, an eminent member of a n.
- 150 CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, ST., patriarch of Jerusalem, elected 351, and a Father of the Greek Church; in the Arian controversy then raging was a Semi-Arian, and was persecuted by the strict Arians; joined the Nicene party at the Council of Constantinople in 381
- 149 CURTIUS, GEORG, German philologist, born at Lubeck, brother of the preceding; held professorial appointments in Prague, Kiel, and Berlin; one of the best Greek scholars in Germany, and contributed largely to the etymology and grammar of the Greek language
- 148 CULLODEN, a moor, 5 m. NE. of Inverness, where the Duke of c.u.mberland defeated Prince Charles in 1746, and finally wrecked the Stuart cause in the country.CULPEPER, NICHOLAS, a herbalist, born in London, who practised medicine and a.s.sociated therewith
- 147 CROMWELL, RICHARD, son of the Protector; appointed to succeed him; was unequal to the task, and compelled to abdicate, April 26, 1659; retired into private life; went after the Restoration for a time abroad; returned under a feigned name, and lived and di
- 146 CRESCENTINI, a celebrated Italian soprano (1769-1846).CRESCENTIUS, a patrician of Rome who, in the 10th century, sought to destroy the imperial power and restore the republic; on this he was defeated by Otho III., to whom he surrendered on promise of safe
- 145 CRAIL, a little old-fas.h.i.+oned town near the East Neuk of Fife, where James Sharp was minister; a decayed fis.h.i.+ng-place, now a summer resort.CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST, a distinguished German composer and pianist (1771-1858).CRANACH, LUCAS, a celebrate
- 144 COUTTS, THOMAS, a banker, born in Edinburgh, his father having been Lord Provost of that city; joint-founder and eventually sole manager of the London banking house, Coutts & Co.; left a fortune of 900,000 (1735-1822).COUVADE, a custom among certain races
- 143 COTES, ROGER, an English mathematician of such promise, that Newton said of him, "If he had lived, we should have known something"(1682-1716).CoTES DU NORD (618), a dep. forming part of Brittany; the chief manufacture is linen.COTIN, THE ABBe, a
- 142 CORRIB, LOUGH, an irregularly shaped lake in Galway and Mayo, 25 m.long and from 1 to 6 m. broad, with stone circles near it.CORRIENTES (300), a province of the Argentine Republic, between the Parana and the Uruguay; also its capital (18), surrounded by o
- 141 CORELLI, MARIE, a novelist, a prolific auth.o.r.ess, and very popular; her first work "The Romance of Two Worlds," one of her latest "The Sorrows of Satan"; _b_. 1864.CORFE CASTLE, a village in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsets.h.i.+re, rou
- 140 COPENHAGEN (380), the capital of Denmark, and the only large town in it; lies low, and is built partly on the island of Seeland and partly on the island of Amager, the channel between which forms a commodious harbour; is a thriving place of manufacture an
- 139 CONVERSION, "the grand epoch for a man," says Carlyle, "properly the one epoch; the turning-point, which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore."CONVOCATION, an a.s.semblage of the English clergy, with
- 138 CONSERVATISM, indisposition to change established laws and customs that have wrought beneficially in the past and contributed to the welfare of the country; in practical politics often a very different thing, and regarded by Carlyle in his time "a po
- 137 through Lake Bangueola, then N. to the equator; curving in a great semicircle it continues SW., pa.s.ses in a series of rapids through the coast range, and enters the S. Atlantic by an estuary 6 m. broad. It brings down more water than the other African r
- 136 COMPIeGNE (14), a quiet old town in the dep. of Oise, 50 m. NE. of Paris; has some fine old churches, but the chief edifice is the palace, built by St. Louis and rebuilt by Louis XIV., where the marriage of Napoleon to Maria Louisa was celebrated; here Jo
- 135 of the State. The climate resembles that of northern England, but is in some parts very rainy. The chief industries are lumbering--the forests are among the finest in the world, fis.h.i.+ng--the rivers abound in salmon and sturgeon, and mining--rich depos
- 134 COLLINS, WILLIAM, a gifted and ill-fated English poet, born at Chichester; settled in London; fell into dissipated habits and straitened circ.u.mstances; had 2000 left him by an uncle, but both health and spirits were broken, and he died in mental imbecil
- 133 COLCHESTER (35), the largest town in Ess.e.x, 51 m. from London, on the right bank of the Colne, of great antiquity, and with Roman remains; has been long famous for its oyster fishery; has silk manufactures; is the port of outlet of a large corn-growing
- 132 c.o.c.kBURN, SIR ALEXANDER, Lord Chief-Justice of England from 1859; called to the bar in 1829; became Liberal member for Southampton in 1847, and Solicitor-General in 1850; was prosecutor in the Palmer case, judge in the Tichborne, and an arbitrator in t
- 131 CLOUD, ST., or CLODOALD, third son of Clodomir, who escaped the fate of his brothers, and retired from the world to a spot on the left bank of the Seine, 6 m. SW. of Paris, named St. Cloud after him.CLOUDS, THE, the play in which Aristophanes exposes Socr
- 130 CLERMONT, ROBERT, COMTE DE, sixth son of St. Louis, head of the house of Bourbon.CLERMONT FERRAND (45), the ancient capital of Auvergne and chief town of the dep. Puy-de-Dome; the birthplace of Pascal, Gregory of Tours, and Dessaix, and where, in 1095, Po
- 129 CLEAR THE CAUSEWAY RIOTS, bickerings in the streets of Edinburgh in 1515 between the rival factions of Angus and Arran, to the utter rout of the former, or the Douglas party.CLEANTHES, a Stoic philosopher, born at a.s.sos, in Troas, of the 3rd century B.C
- 128 CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, Earl of, sat in the Short Parliament and the Long on the popular side, but during the Civil War became a devoted Royalist; was from 1641 one of the chief advisers of the king; on the failure of the royal cause, took refuge first in
- 127 CITY OF CHURCHES, Brooklyn, now incorporated with New York.CITY OF DESTRUCTION, Bunyan's name for the world as under divine judgment.CITY OF G.o.d, Augustine's name for the Church as distinct from the cities of the world, and the t.i.tle of a bo
- 126 CIMON, an Athenian general, son of Miltiades; distinguished himself in the struggle of Athens against Persia in 466 B.C.; gained two victories over the Persians in one day, one by land and another by sea, was banished by the democratic party, and after fo
- 125 CHRONICLERS, THE RHYMING, a series of writers who flourished in England in the 13th century, and related histories of the country in rhyme, in which the fabulous occupies a conspicuous place, among which Layamon's "Brut" (1205) takes the le
- 124 CHOLULA, an ancient city, 60 m. SE. of Mexico; the largest city of the Aztecs, with a pyramidal temple, now a Catholic church.CHOPIN, a musical composer, born near Warsaw, of Polish origin; his genius for music early developed itself; distinguished himsel
- 123 CHINESE GORDON, General Gordon, killed at Khartoum; so called for having, in 1851, suppressed a rebellion in China which had lasted 15 years.CHINOOK, a tribe of Indians in Was.h.i.+ngton Territory, noted for flattening their skulls.CHINSURA, a Dutch-built
- 122 CHIe'TI (22), a city in Central Italy, 78 m. NE. of Rome, with a fine Gothic cathedral.CHIGI, a distinguished Italian family, eminent in the Church.CHIGOE, an insect which infests the skin of the feet, multiplies incredibly, and is a great annoyance
- 121 CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF, statesman, orator, and man of letters, eldest son of the third earl, born in London; sat in the House of Commons from 1716 to 1726; was an opponent of Walpole; held office under the Pelhams; in 1748 retired f
- 120 CHEMULPO, a town on the W. coast of Corea; a thriving town since it became a treaty-port in 1883.CHENAB', an affluent on the left bank of the Indus, and one of the five rivers, and the largest, which give name to the Punjab; is 750 m.long.CHENERY, TH
- 119 CHASLES, MICHEL, an eminent French mathematician, and held one of the first in the century; on the faith of certain autographs, which were afterwards proved to be forgeries, he in 1867 astonished the world by ascribing to Pascal the great discoveries of N
- 118 CHARLES XII., king of Sweden, son of Charles XI., a warlike prince; ascended the throne at the age of 15; had to cope with Denmark, Russia, and Poland combined against him; foiled the Danes at Copenhagen, the Russians at Narva, and Augustus II. of Poland
- 117 (1738-1810).CHANDOS, an English t.i.tle inherited by the Grenville family, of Norman origin.CHANDOS, JOHN, a celebrated English general in the 14th century; was present at Crecy, governor of English provinces in France ceded by treaty of Bretigny; defeate
- 116 CHALMERS, THOMAS, a celebrated Scotch ecclesiastic and pulpit orator, born at Anstruther, Fife; studied for the Church, and entered the ministry; after he did so was for some years more engrossed with physical studies and material interests than spiritual
- 115 CERRO DE PASCO, a town in Peru, 14,200 ft. above the sea-level, with the richest silver mine in S. America.CERUTTI, a Jesuit, born at Turin; became a Revolutionary in France; p.r.o.nounced the funeral oration at the grave of Mirabeau in 1789.CERVANTES-SAA
- 114 CE'BES, a Greek philosopher, disciple and friend of Socrates, reputed author of the "Pinax" or Tablet, a once popular book on the secret of life, being an allegorical representation of the temptations that beset it.CECIL, ROBERT, EARL OF SA
- 113 CAUSALITY, the philosophic name for the nature of the relation between cause and effect, in regard to which there has been much diversity of opinion among philosophers.CAUTERETS, a fas.h.i.+onable watering-place in the dep. of the Hautes-Pyrenees, 3250 ft
- 112 CATHCART, EARL, a British general and diplomatist, born in Renfrews.h.i.+re; saw service in America and Flanders; distinguished himself at the bombardment of Copenhagen; represented England at the court of Russia and the Congress of Vienna (1755-1843).CAT
- 111 CASTLEWOOD, the heroine in Thackeray's "Esmond."CASTOR AND POLLUX, the Dioscuri, the twin sons of Zeus by Leda; great, the former in horsemans.h.i.+p, and the latter in boxing; famed for their mutual affection, so that when the former was s
- 110 Ca.s.sAGNAC, PAUL, son of preceding; editor of _Le Pays_ and the journal _L'Autorite_; an obstinate Imperialist; _b_. 1843.Ca.s.sANDER, king of Macedonia, pa.s.sed over in the succession by his father Antipater; allied himself with the Greek cities;
- 109 CARTERET, JOHN, EARL GRANVILLE, eminent British statesman, orator, and diplomatist, entered Parliament in the Whig interest; his first speech was in favour of the Protestant succession; after service as diplomatist abroad, was made Lord-Lieutenant of Irel
- 108 CAROLINA, NORTH, one of the original 13 States of N. America, on the Atlantic, about the size of England, S. of Virginia, 480 m. from E. to W.and 180 m. from N. to S.; has a fertile, well-watered subsoil in the high lands; is rich in minerals and natural
- 107 CARLOS, DON, son of Philip II. of Spain, born at Valladolid, and heir to the throne, but from incapacity, or worse, excluded by his father from all share in the government; confessed to a priest a design to a.s.sa.s.sinate some one, believed to be his fat
- 106 CARAGLIO, an eminent Italian engraver, born at Verona, engraved on gems and medals as well as copper-plate, after the works of the great masters (1500-1570).CARAVAGGIO, an Italian painter, disdained the ideal and the ideal style of art, and kept generally
- 105 CAPE COLONY (1,527), comprises the extremity of the African continent south of the Orange River and Natal, and is nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom; the Nieuwveld Berge, running E. and W., divides the country into two slopes, the northern slope
- 104 CANDLISH, ROBERT SMITH, a Scottish ecclesiastic, born in Edinburgh; distinguished, next to Chalmers, for his services in organising the Free Church of Scotland; was an able debater and an eloquent preacher (1806-1873).CANDOLLE. See DE CANDOLLE.CANDOUR, MR
- 103 CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN, LORD CLYDE, born in Glasgow, son of a carpenter named Macliver; entered the army, and rose rapidly; served in China and the Punjab; commanded the Highland Brigade in the Crimea; won the day at Alma and Balaclava; commanded in India du
- 102 Catherine's, 1473; Jesus, 1496; Christ's, 1505; St John's, 1511; Magdalene, 1519; Trinity, 1546; Emmanuel, 1584; Sidney Suss.e.x, 1598; and Downing, 1800. Each college is a corporation by itself, governed by statutes sanctioned by the crown
- 101 CALLIS'TRATUS, an Athenian orator, who kindled in Demosthenes a pa.s.sion for his art; his Spartan sympathies brought him to grief, and led to his execution as a traitor.CALLOT, JACQUES, engraver and etcher, born at Nancy; his etchings, executed many
- 100 CALAS, JEAN, a tradesman of Toulouse, whose son committed suicide, and who was charged with murdering him to prevent his going over to the Catholic Church; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to torture and death on the wheel (1762); after which his prope
- 99 CAGLIARI (44), the cap of Sardinia, and the chief port, on the S.coast, was a colony of Jews from the time of Tiberius till 1492, whence they were expelled by the Spaniards; lies on the slopes of a hill, the summit of which is 300 ft. high, and is on the
- 98 CABALLERO, FERNAN, the _nom de plume_ of Cecilia Boehl, a popular Spanish auth.o.r.ess, born in Switzerland, of German descent; a collector of folk tales; wrote charmingly; told stories of Spanish, particularly Andalusian, peasant life (1797-1877).CABANEL
- 97 BUSK, HANS, one of the originators of the Volunteer movement, born in Wales; author of "The Rifle, and How to Use it" (1815-1882).BUSKIN, a kind of half-boot worn after the custom of hunters as part of the costume of actors in tragedy on the anc
- 96 BURNE-JONES, SIR EDWARD, artist, born at Birmingham, of Welsh descent; came early under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and all along produced works imbued with the spirit of it, which is at once mystical in conception and realistic in execu
- 95 BUNSBY, JACK, commander of a s.h.i.+p in "Dombey & Son," regarded as an oracle by Captain Cuttle.BUNSEN, BARON VON, a diplomatist and man of letters, born at Korbach; in Waldeck; studied at Marburg and Gottingen; became acquainted with Niebuhr a
- 94 BUDE-LIGHT, a very brilliant light produced by introducing oxygen into the centre of an Argand burner, so called from the place of the inventor's abode.BUDWEIS (28), a Bohemian trading town on the Moldau, 133 m. NW. of Vienna.BUENOS AYRES (543), capi
- 93 BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON, English antiquary, born at Wootton House, in Kent; called to the bar, but devoted to literature; was M.P.for Maidstone for six years; lived afterwards and died at Geneva; wrote novels and poems, and edited old English writings
- 92 BRUCKER, historian of philosophy, born at Augsburg, and a pastor there; author of "Historia Critica Philosophiae" (1696-1770).BRUEYS, DAVID AUGUSTIN DE, French dramatist, born at Aix, an abbe converted by Bossuet, and actively engaged in propaga
- 91 BROWN, HENRY KIRKE, an American sculptor, did a number of statues, a colossal one of Was.h.i.+ngton among them (1814-1886).BROWN, JOHN, American slavery abolitionist; settled in Kansas, and resolutely opposed the project of making it a slave state; in the
- 90 BROMLEY (21), a market-town in Kent, 10 m. SE. of London, where the bishops of Rochester had their palace, and where there is a home called Warner's College for clergymen's widows.BROMPTON, SW. district of London, in Kensington, now called S.Ken
- 89 BRITANNIA, a name for Britain as old as the days of Caesar, and inhabited by Celts, as Gaul also was.BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE, a railway bridge spanning the Menai Strait, designed by Robert Stephenson, and completed in 1850; consists of hollow tubes of wr
- 88 BRIDGWATER, a seaport town in Somersets.h.i.+re, 29 m. SW. of Bristol.BRIDLEGOOSE, JUDGE, a judge in Rabelais' "Pantagruel," who decided cases by the throw of dice.BRIDLINGTON, a watering-place in Yorks.h.i.+re, 6 m. SW. of Flamborough Head
- 87 BRETON DE LOS HERREROS, Spanish poet and dramatist; wrote comedies and satires in an easy, flowing style (1800-1873).BRETEUIL, BARON DE, an ex-secretary of Louis XVI. (1733-1807).BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE, a Dutch branch of the "Friends of G.o.d,&q
- 86 BRAXY, an inflammatory disease in sheep, due to a change in food from succulent to dry; and the name given to the mutton of sheep affected with it.BRAY, a Berks.h.i.+re village, famous for Simon Aleyn, its vicar from 1540 to 1588, who, to retain his livin
- 85 BRAHMANAS, treatises on the ceremonial system of Brahminism, with prescriptions bearing upon ritual, and abounding in legends and speculations.BRAHMAPUTRA (i. e. son of Brahma), a river which rises in Tibet, circles round the E. of the Himalayas, and, aft
- 84 BOYDELL, JOHN, an English engraver and print-seller, famous for his "Shakespeare Gallery," with 96 plates in ill.u.s.tration of Shakespeare, and the encouragement he gave to native artists; he issued also Hume's "History of England,&qu
- 83 BOURDON, SEBASTIAN, a French painter, born at Montpellier; his _chef-d'oeuvre_ "The Crucifixion of St. Peter," executed for the church of Notre Dame (1616-1671).BOURDON DE L'OISE, a French revolutionist, member of the Convention; banis
- 82 BOTZARIS, one of the heroes of the war of Greek independence (1789-1823).BOUCHARDON, a celebrated French sculptor (1698-1762).BOUCHER, a French painter, born at Paris (1703-1770).BOUCHER DE PERTHES, French naturalist and anthropologist, born in Ardennes (
- 81 BORROWDALE, a valley in the Lake District, W. c.u.mberland, celebrated for its beautiful scenery.BORTHWICK CASTLE, a ruined peel tower, 13 m. SE. of Edinburgh, where Queen Mary and Bothwell spent four days together in June 1567.BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, JEAN
- 80 BOOTON, an island in the Malay Archipelago, SE. of Celebes; subject to the Dutch.BOPP, FRANZ, a celebrated German philologist and Sanskrit scholar, born at Mayence; was professor of Oriental Literature and General Philology at Berlin; his greatest work, &
- 79 BONAR, HORATIUS, a clergyman of the Free Church of Scotland, and a celebrated hymn writer, born at Edinburgh (1808-1889).BONAVENTURA, ST., cardinal, surnamed the Seraphic Doctor, his real name John Fidenza, born in Tuscany; entered the Franciscan Order; w
- 78 BOISSIERE, a French lexicographer (1806-1885).BOISSY D'ANGLAS, COUNT, a member and president of the Convention in Paris, noted for his firmness and coolness during the frenzy of the Revolution: one day the Parisian mob burst in upon the Convention, s
- 77 BOEHME, JACOB, a celebrated German mystic, born at Gorlitz; of an imaginatively meditative turn from boyhood as a neat-herd, and afterwards in his stall as a shoemaker; spent his whole life in meditation on divine things; saw in the Bible a revelation of
- 76 BLUEBEARD, a wealthy seigneur, the owner of a castle; marries a beautiful woman, and leaves her in charge of the keys of the apartments in his absence, with injunctions not to unlock any of the doors, an injunction which she fails to respect, and finds to
- 75 BLASPHEMY, defined by Ruskin as the opposite of euphemy, and as wis.h.i.+ng ill to anything, culminating in wis.h.i.+ng ill to G.o.d, as the height of "ill-manners."BLATANT BEAST, Spenser's name for the ignorant, slanderous, clamour of the
- 74 BLACK SEA, or EUXINE, an inland sea, lying between Europe and Asia, twice the size of Britain, being 700 m. in greatest length and 400 m. in greatest breadth; communicates in the N. with the Sea of Azov, and in the SW., through the Bosphorus, the Sea of M
- 73 BISCAY, BAY OF, a bay in the Atlantic, extending from Cape Ortegal, in Spain, to Cape Finisterre, in France, and 400 m. broad, of depth varying from 20 to 200 fathoms, and, under SW. winds particularly, one of the stormiest of seas.BISCHOF, KARL GUSTAV, c
- 72 BILLAUD-VARENNES, JEAN NICOLAS, "a grim, resolute, unrepentant"member of the Jacobin Club; egged on the mob during the September ma.s.sacres in the name of liberty; was president of the Convention; a.s.sisted at the fall of Robespierre, but coul
- 71 BHOD-PA, name given to the aborigines of Thibet, and applied by the Hindus to all the Thibetan peoples.BHOPAL' (952), a well-governed native state in Central India, under British protection, with a capital city (70) of the same name; under a governme
- 70 BESSEMER PROCESS. See BESSEMER.BESSIeRES, JEAN BAPTISTE, DUKE OF ISTRIA, marshal of France, born at Languedoc, of humble parentage; rose from the ranks; a friend and one of the ablest officers of Napoleon, and much esteemed by him; distinguished himself i
- 69 BERTHA, G.o.ddess in the S. German mythology, of the spinning-wheel princ.i.p.ally, and of the household as dependent on it, in behalf of which and its economical management she is often harsh to idle spinners; at her festival thrift is the rule.BERTHA, S
- 68 BERMU'DAS (15), a group of 400 coral islands (five inhabited) in mid-Atlantic, 677 m. SE. of New York; have a delightful, temperate climate, and are a popular health resort for Americans. They produce a fine arrowroot, and export onions. They are hel
- 67 BERBRUGGER, a French archaeologist and philologist; wrote on Algiers, its history and monuments (1801-1869).BERCHTA, a German Hulda, but of severer type. See BERTHA.BERCY, a commune on the right bank of the Seine, outside Paris, included in it since 1860;
- 66 BENGUE'LA, a fertile Portuguese territory in W. Africa, S. of Angola, with considerable mineral wealth; has sunk in importance since the suppression of the slave-trade.BENICIA, the former capital of California, 30 m. NE. of San Francisco; has a commo
- 65 BEM, JOSEPH, a Polish general, born in Galicia; served in the French army against Russia in 1812; took part in the insurrection of 1830; joined the Hungarians in 1848; gained several successes against Austria and Russia, but was defeated at Temesvar; turn