Image:Browning_Society_of_PA_Stationery.jpg|500px|center My dear Mr. Jenkins:— I cannot allow so kind a note as yours to go without a word of written acknowledgement, will though I hope to More…
In 1907, influenced by the eugenics movement, Indiana became the first state in the United States to adopt a law authorizing the sterilization (surgical procedure) of institutionalized More…
"'ALSHEKH, MOSES", Jewish rabbi in Safed (Palestine) in thelater part of the 16th century. He was the author of manyhomiletical commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. His works stilljustly enjoy More…
"`AMR IBN KULTHŪM", Arabian poet, author of one of the Mo`allakāt. Little or nothing is known of his life save that he was a member of the tribe of Taghlib and that he is said to have died More…
"ALCIBIADES" ('c.' 450-404 B.C.), Athenian general and politician, was born at Athens. He was the son of Cleinias and Deinomache, who belonged to the family of the Alcmaeonidae. He was a More…
"ALCIDAMAS", of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century B.C. He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as More…
"ALCINOUS" (), in ancient Greek legend, king of the fabulous Phaeacians, in the island of Scheria, was the son of Nausithous and grandson of Poseidon. His reception and entertainment of More…
"ALCIONIO, PIETRO", or ('c.' 1487-1527), Italian classical scholar, was born at Venice. After having studied Greek under Marcus Musurus of Candia, he was employed for some time by Aldus More…
"ALCIPHRON", Greek rhetorician, was probably a contemporary of Lucian (2nd century A.D.). He was the author of a collection of fictitious letters, of which 124 (118 complete and 6 More…
"ALCIRA", a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia; on the left bank of the river Júcar, and on the Valencia-Alicante railway. Pop. (1900) 20,572. Alcira is a walled town, More…
"ALCMAEON", of Argos, in Greek legend, was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. When his father set out with the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, which he knew would be fatal to him, More…
"ALCMAEONIDAE", a noble Athenian family, claiming descent from Alcmaeon, the great-grandson of Nestor, who emigrated from Pylos to Athens at the time of the Dorian invasion of Peloponnesus. More…
"ALCMAN", or (the former being the Doric form of the name), the founder of Doric lyric poetry, to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in the Alexandrian More…
"ALCMENE", in ancient Greek mythology, the daughter of Electryon, king of Mycenae, and wife of Amphitryon. She was the mother of Heracles by Zeus, who assumed the likeness of her husband More…
"ALCOBAÇA", a town of Portugal, in the district of Leiria, formerly included in the province of Estremadura, on the Alcoa and Baça rivers, from which it derives its name. Pop. (1900) 2309. More…
"ALCOCK, JOHN" ('c.' 1430-1500), English divine, was born at Beverley in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. In 1461 he was made dean of Westminster, and henceforward his promotion was More…
"ALCOCK, SIR RUTHERFORD" (1809-1897), British consul and diplomatist, was the son of Dr Thomas Alcock, who practised at Ealing, near London, and himself followed the medical profession. In More…
"ALCOVE" (through the Span. 'alcova', from the Arab. 'al-', the, and 'quobbah', a vault), an architectural term for a recess in a room usually screened off by pillars, balustrade or More…
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