"AKHMIM", or Ekhmim, a town of Upper Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile, 67 m. by river S. of Assiut, and 4 m. above Suhag, on the opposite side of the river, whence there is railway More…
"AKHTAL" [Ghiyāth ibn Hārith] ('c.' 640–710), one of the most famous Arabian poets of the Omayyad period, belonged to the tribe of Taghlib in Mesopotamia, and was, like his More…
"AKHTYRKA," a town of Russia, in the government of Kharkov, near the Vorskla river, connected by a branch (11 m.) with the railway from Kiev to Kharkov. It has a beautiful cathedral, built More…
ALE-CONNER, an officer appointed yearly at the court-leet of ancient English manors for the assize of ale and ale-measures . The gustatores cervisiaecalled in different localities by the More…
GIROLAMO ALEANDRO (HIERONYMt S ALEANDER) (1480-1542) , Italian cardinal, was born at Motta, near Venice, on the 13th of February 1480 . He studied at Venice, where he became acquainted More…
COUNT ALEARDO ALEARDI (1812-1878) , Italian poet, was born at Verona on the 4th of November 1812, and thus soon after his birth became an Austrian subject . Inspired from his cradle with More…
ALECSANDRI, or ALEXANDRI, VASILE (1821-1890), Rumanian lyric poet, was born at Bacau in Moldavia on the 21st off July 1821. His father was the Spatar Alecsandri, of Jewish and Italian More…
LOUIS ALEMAN (c. 1390-1450) , French cardinal, was born of a noble family at the castle of Arbent near Bugey about the year 139o . He was successively bishop of Maguelonne (1418), More…
JEAN LE ROND ALEMBERT D' (1717—1783), French mathe- matician and philosopher, was born at Paris in November 1717 . He was a foundling, having been exposed near the church of St Jean le More…
ALEMBIC (Arab. al, definite article, anbiq, a still; cognate to the • Gr. agOtE, a cup) , an apparatus for distillation, used chiefly by the alchemists, and now superseded by the retort More…
ALEMTEJO (i.e. " Beyond the Tagus ") , an ancient province of central and southern Portugal; bounded on the N. by Beira, E. by Spanish Estremadura and Andalusia, S. by Algarve More…
ALEMÁN, MATEO (1549—1609?), Spanish novelist and man of letters, was born at Seville in 1547. He graduated at Seville University in 1564, studied later at Salamanca and Alcalá, and from More…
, Italian engraver on wood, in chiaroscuro, was born at Mantua about 1540 (Brulliot says 1560) and died at Rome in 1623. His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of More…
ANI (anc. Abnicum), an ancient and ruined Armenian city, in Russian Transcaucasia, government Erivan, situated at an altitude of 4390 ft., between the Arpa-chai (Harpasus) and a deep More…
"BANKS, SIR JOSEPH", Bart. (1743-1820), English naturalist,was born in Argyle Street, London, on the 13th of February 1743.His father, William Banks, was the son of a successful More…
(1653-1729), French actor (whose family name originally was Boyron), was born in Paris, the son of a leading actor (d. 1655) and of a talented actress (d. 1662). At the age of twelve he More…
(Lat. 'caseus'), a solidified preparation from milk, the essential constituent of which is the proteinous or nitrogenous substance 'casein.' All cheese contains in addition some More…
a western metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded E. by the city of Westminster, N.W. by Kensington, S.W. by Fulham, and S. by the river Thames. Pop. (1901) 73,842. Its chief More…
a city of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., a suburb of Boston. Pop. (1890) 27,909; (1900) 34,072, of whom 11,203 were foreign-born; (1910) 32,452. It is situated on a peninsula More…
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