id string | texte string | disclaimer string | coords string | vedette string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
kp-eb0705-058512-0668 | BROCK, among sportsmen, a term used to denote a badger. A hart, too, of the third year is called a brock or brocket; and a hind of the same year is called a brockets | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROCK | |
kp-eb0705-058513-0668 | BROCKLESBY, Richard, a physician of considerable reputation, was born in Somersetshire on the 11th of August 1722, and was descended from a respectable and opuĭent Irish family belonging to the sect of Quakers. He received his grammatical education at the acade y of Ballytore, in the north of Ireland, and afterwards pu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROCKLESBY | |
kp-eb0705-058601-0681 | BROD, a town of Hungary, on the military frontier belonging to the military colony of the regiment of Brod, and giving its name to a district containing 62,000 inhabitants, mostly soldiers and their families. It is situated on the river Save,' is fortified, and has a castle, a Catholic and two Greek churches, and 4100 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 45 10' 50" N 17 56' 20" E | BROD |
kp-eb0705-058602-0681 | BRODEAU, John, in Latin Hrodaeus, a critic, on whom Lipsius, Scaliger, Grotius, and all the learned, have bestowed great encomiums, was descended from a noble family in France, and born at Tours in 1500. He was liberally educated, and placed under Alciat to study the civil law; but soon forsaking that pursuit, he gave ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRODEAU | |
kp-eb0705-058603-0681 | BRODERA, or Barodah, a large and wealthy town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, district of Champaneer, the capital of a Mahratta chief known by tn e family name of the Guicowar, who is an ally of the British, and divides with them the largest and finest portion of Gujerat, his particular share being a track of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 22 13' N 73 24' E | BRODERA |
kp-eb0705-058701-0694 | BRODY, a large city of the circle of Lemberg, in the Austrian province of Galicia. It stands on the river Sucha-Wielkabacha, close to the Russian frontier, by which position it is enabled to carry on a most extensive contraband trade with that extensive empire. It is an ill-built and filthy place, containing about 18,0... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRODY | |
kp-eb0705-058702-0694 | BROKE, Sir Robert, lord chief justice of the common pleas, was the son of Thomas Broke, Esq. of Claverly in Shropshire, and educated at Oxford, from which he removed to the Middle Temple, and soon became a very eminent lawyer. In the year 1542 he was chosen summer reader, and in 1550 double reader. In 1552 he was made ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROKE | |
kp-eb0705-058703-0694 | BROKER. The origin of this word is contested, some deriving it from the French broier, “to grind others from brocarder, “to cavil, or higgle ;” and others again from a trader broken, and that from the Saxon broc, “misfortune.”
A broker is an agent or intermediate person appointed for transacting special business on ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROKER | |
kp-eb0705-058704-0694 | BROMBERG, one of the governments into which the Prussian province of Posen is divided. It is bounded on the north by West Prussia, on the east by the present mg om of Poland, on the south by the government of Posen, and on the west by the province of Brandenburg. Its extent is four thousand five hundred and six square ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 55 27' N 17 55' E | BROMBERG |
kp-eb0705-058705-0694 | BROME, Alexander, a poet, and attorney in the lord mayor’s court in the reign of Charles IL, was the author of the greater part of those songs and epigrams which were published in favour of the royalists, and against the Rump, as well in Oliver Cromwell’s time as during the rebellion. These, together with his epistles ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROME | |
kp-eb0705-058706-0694 | BROMELIA, the Pine-apple. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROMELIA | |
kp-eb0705-058707-0694 | BROMLEY, a town in the hundred of Ossulton, and [7:5:588] county of Middlesex, two miles from London, on the high road to the eastern counties. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2101, in 1811 to 2190, and in 1821 to 2349.
Bromley, a market-town in the hundred of the same name in the county of Kent, ten miles from Lo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROMLEY | |
kp-eb0705-058801-0707 | BROMSGROVE, a market-town in the hundred of Halfshire, and county of Worcester, a hundred and seventeen miles from London. It is a borough, and formerly sent members to parliament. It stands on the edge of a black heath, but chiefly depends on some manufactures of nails, needles, and hats. The market is on Tuesday. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROMSGROVE | |
kp-eb0705-058802-0707 | BROMYARD, a market-town in the hundred of Brox-ash, and county of Hereford, a hundred and twenty-five miles from London, on the river Frome. It is a poor place, but situated in the finest part of the cidcr orchards. The market is on Tuesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 983, in 1811 to 1101, and in 1821 to 1227. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROMYARD | |
kp-eb0705-058803-0707 | BRONNIZY, a circle in the Russian government of Moscow, extending over one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight square miles. It contains two cities, and five hundred and twenty-five villages, with 176,500 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the Mosqua, near the lake of Beloc, and has a po... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 55 20' N 27 55' E | BRONNIZY |
kp-eb0705-058804-0707 | BRONTE, a city in the intendency of Catania, in Sicily. It stands in a healthy situation on the river Giaretta, near a celebrated water-fall. It is an industrious place, where linen and woollen cloths, and some kinds of paper, are made. Good wine is produced in the neighbourhood. It gave the title of duke to the late L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRONTE | |
kp-eb0705-058805-0707 | BRONTIUM, in Grecian Antiquity·, a place underneath the floor of the theatres, in which were kept brazen vessels full of stones and other materials, with which they imitated the noise of thunder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRONTIUM | |
kp-eb0705-058806-0707 | BRONTOLOGY denotes the doctrine of thunder, or an explanation of its causes, phenomena, &c. together with the presages drawn from it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRONTOLOGY | |
kp-eb0705-058807-0707 | BRONZING. A combination of metals which has received the name of bronze was employed by the ancients in the fabrication of different utensils, and in casting busts, statues, and other subjects, either larger or smaller than life. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, nations which subsisted long and were familiar with the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRONZING. A | |
kp-eb0705-059001-0733 | BRONZES, a name given by antiquaries to figures either of men or beasts, to urns, and in general to every piece of sculpture which the ancients made of that metal. We likewise give the name of bronzes to statues or busts cast of bronze, whether these pieces be copies of antiques or original subjects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRONZES | |
kp-eb0705-059002-0733 | BROOKE, Mrs, daughter of a clergyman of the name of Moore, was a lady as remarkable for her virtue and suavity of manners as for her great literary accomplishments. Hcr first performance, which introduced her to the notice and consequent esteem of the public, was Julia Mandeville ; a work concerning which there were va... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROOKE | |
kp-eb0705-059003-0733 | BROOM denotes a well-known household besom or implement wherewith to sweep away dirt, dust, and the like. We say a birch-broom, a hair-broom, a rush-broom, a heathbroom. The primitive kind of brooms, from which the denomination is given to all the rest, was made of the genista or wild broom growing on commons.
Bnooiif... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROOM | |
kp-eb0705-059004-0733 | BROOME, William, the coadjutor of Pope in translating the Odyssey, was born in Cheshire, as is said, of very mean parents. He was educated upon the foundation at Eton, and was captain of the school a whole year, without any vacancy by which he might have obtained a scholarship at King’s College. Being by this delay, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROOME | |
kp-eb0705-059101-0746 | BROOMING, or Breaming of a Ship, the washing and burning off all the filth she has contracted on her sides, with weeds, straw, broom, &c. when she is on the careen, or on the ground. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROOMING | |
kp-eb0705-059102-0746 | BROOS, a town, the capital of a small district, to which it has given its name, in the Saxon division of the Hungarian province of the Seven Mountains. It contains a Greek, a Lutheran, and a Calvinistie church, five hundred and ninety houses, and 4560 inhabitants. Long. 23. 7. 26. E. Lat. 45. 40. 46. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 45 40' 46" N 23 7' 26" E | BROOS |
kp-eb0705-059103-0746 | BROSELEY, a market-town within the franchise of Wenlock, in the county of Salop, a hundred and forty-six miles from London, on the river Severn. It is a place of considerable trade in iron, having near it productive mines of that mineral, as well as of coal. It has a good market on Wednesday. The inhabitants amounted i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROSELEY | |
kp-eb0705-059104-0746 | BROSSARD, Sebastian de, an eminent French musician. In the early part of his life he had been prebendary and chapel-master of the cathedral church of Strasburg, but afterwards became grand chaplain and also maitre de chapelle in the cathedral of Meaux. There is extant of his a work entitled Prodromus Musicalis, in two ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROSSARD | |
kp-eb0705-059105-0746 | BROSSES, Charles de, first president of the parliament of Burgundy, was born at Dijon on the 17th of February 1707. He studied law with a view to the magistracy, but without neglecting literature and the sciences, to which he discovered an early and decided attachment. His study of the Roman history excited in him a st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROSSES | |
kp-eb0705-059106-0746 | BROTHER, Prater, a term of relation between two male children, sprung from the same father, or mother, or both. Sealiger and Vossius derive frater from <ρξaτr l g, for (ρ^ατωο, which properly signifies a person who draws water in the same well; pg≡αg, in Greek, signifying well, and φξωτζia, a company of people who have... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROTHER | |
kp-eb0705-059201-0759 | BROTTERODE, a market-town of the circle of Schmal-kald, in Hesse-Cassel. It stands on the river Lauderbach, and contains 2860 inhabitants, employed in various minor manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROTTERODE | |
kp-eb0705-059202-0759 | BROUGH, a market-town in the east ward of the county of Westmoreland, two hundred and sixty-two miles from London. It is on a brook running into the Eden two miles below the town. Near it are the ruins of a castle belonging to the Earl of Thanet, the prospects around which are very magnificent. It has a market on Tuesd... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROUGH | |
kp-eb0705-059203-0759 | BROUGHTON, Thomas, a learned divine, and one of the original writers of the Biographia Britannica, was born at London, July 5, 1704, in the parish of St Andrew, Holborn, of which parish his father was minister. At an early age he was sent to Eton School, where he soon distinguished himself by the acuteness of his geniu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROUGHTON | |
kp-eb0705-059204-0759 | BROUKHUSIUS, Janus, or John Broekhuizen, a distinguished scholar in Holland, was born on the 20th November 1649, at Amsterdam, where his father was a clerk in the admiralty. He learned the Latin tongue under Hadrian Furnius, and made a prodigious progress in polite literature; but, his father dying when he was very you... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROUKHUSIUS | |
kp-eb0705-059301-0772 | BROUNCKER, or Brounker, William, lord viscount of Castle-Lyons, in Ireland, and the first president of the Royal Society, was the sonof Sir William Brounker, knight, and born about the year 1620. He was distinguished by his knowledge of the mathematics, and by the considerable posts of honour and profit he enjoyed afte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROUNCKER | |
kp-eb0705-059302-0772 | BROUSSONET, Pierre Marie Auguste, a distinguished French naturalist, born at Montpellier on the 28tb February 1761. His father was a respectable schoolmaster in that town, who, perceiving the avidity with which he received instruction of every kind, took pains to store his mind with knowledge at an early age. It appear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROUSSONET | |
kp-eb0705-059303-0772 | BROWN, Robert, a schismatic divine, the founder of the Brownists, a numerous sect of dissenters in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was the son of Mr Anthony Brown of Tolthorp in Rutlandshire, whose father obtained the singular privilege of wearing his cap in the king’s presence, by a charter of Henry VIII. Robert was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROWN | |
kp-eb0705-060301-0902 | BROWNE, Sir Thomas, an eminent physician and celebrated writer, was born at London on the 19th of Oetober 1605. Having studied at Winchester College, and afterwards at Oxford, he travelled through France and Italy; and returning by the way of Holland, he took his degree of doctor of physic at Leyden. In 1636 he settled... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROWNE | |
kp-eb0705-060401-0915 | BROWNISTS, a religious sect, which sprung out of that of the Puritans towards the close of the sixteenth century. Their leader, Robert Brown, who wrote divers books in their behalf, was a man of good parts and some learning. He was born of a good family in Rutlandshire, and related to the lord-treasurer Burghley. He ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROWNISTS | |
kp-eb0705-060501-0928 | BROWNRIGG, Dr William, was a native of Cumberland, and born about the year 1712. Of the early part of the life of this philosopher we have had no opportunity of obtaining information. Being destined for the medical profession, after the previous studies in his own country he repaired to Leyden to finish his education. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROWNRIGG | |
kp-eb0705-060502-0928 | BROWNIE, the name of a serviceable kind of sprite, who, according to a superstitious notion formerly prevalent in the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland (as well as among the country people in England, where he had the name of Robin Goodfellow'), was wont to clean the houses, help to churn, thresh the corn, and belabou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BROWNIE | |
kp-eb0705-060503-0928 | BRUCE, Robert, son of the Earl of Carrick, and competitor with Baliol for the crown of Scotland, which he lost y thθ arbitration of Edward I. of England, for generously to using to hold of him the crown of Scotland, which his a ∏cestors had left him independent. But Baliol having a terwards broken his agreement with Ed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUCE | |
kp-eb0705-060901-0980 | BRUCHSAL, a bailiwick in the grand duchy of Baden, on the Bergstrassa, near the Rhine, containing, besides the city from which it takes its name, one city, nine villages, and 15,400 inhabitants. The city is on the Salzbach, which soon joins the Rhine, in a beautiful situa·' tion, surrounded by vineyards and gardens. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUCHSAL | |
kp-eb0705-060902-0980 | BRUCK, a circle in the Austrian province of Stcycr-mark, extending over 1496 square miles, or 917,440 acres. It is situated in a mountainous district, with valleys between the ranges, of moderate fertility. In 1817 it contained 62,538 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, at the junction of the river Mur with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUCK | |
kp-eb0705-060903-0980 | BRUCKENAU, a city of 1550 inhabitants, the capital of a magistracy of the same name, in the circle of the Lower Maine, and kingdom of Bavaria. It extends over a hundred and nine square miles, and contains, besides the city, twenty-two villages, with 9350 inhabitants. It is a poor district, yielding little corn, but abu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUCKENAU | |
kp-eb0705-060904-0980 | BRUCKER, James, theologian, historian, philologer, and biographer, was born at Augsburg on the 22d of January 1696. His father, who was a respectable burgher, destined him for the church; and his own inclinations according with his father’s wishes, he was sent, at the usual age, to pursue his studies in the university ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUCKER | |
kp-eb0705-061101-1006 | BRUGES, a city, the capital of the province of East Flanders, and of the circle, containing seven cantons and seventy-six communes, to which it gives the same name, in the Netherlands. At one period it was the greatest commercial city in Europe; and though, from political events, its importance has been reduced, the re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 51 12' 40" N 3 7' 47" E | BRUGES |
kp-eb0705-061102-1006 | BRUIN, John de, professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht, was born at Gorcum in 1620. He had uncommon skill in dissecting animals, and was a great lover of experiments. He also made observations in astronomy. He published dissertations De vi altrice ; De corporum gravitate et levitate ; De cognitione ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUIN | |
kp-eb0705-061103-1006 | BRUMALIA, in Roman Antiquity, festivals of Bacchus, celebrated twice a year, the first on the 12th of the kalends of March, and the other on the 18th of the kalends of November. They were instituted by Romulus, who, during these feasts, used to entertain the senate. Among the heathen festivals which the primitive Chris... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUMALIA | |
kp-eb0705-061104-1006 | BRUMOY, Peter, a learned Jesuit, born at Rouen in 1668, distinguished himself in his youth by his talents for the belles lettres; and during his whole life was beloved for his probity, his virtue, and the goodness of his heart. He wrote many works, the most considerable of which is his Theatre of the Greeks. He died at... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUMOY | |
kp-eb0705-061105-1006 | BRUN, Charles le, was descended of a family of distinction in Scotland, and born in the year 1619. His father was a statuary by profession. He discovered, it is said, such an early inclination for painting, that at three years of age he used to take coals, and design on the hearths and sides of the chimney, only by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUN | |
kp-eb0705-061201-1019 | BRUNDUSIUM, or Brundisium. See Brindisi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUNDUSIUM | |
kp-eb0705-061202-1019 | BRUNN, a circle in the Austrian province of Moravia, extending over 1815 square miles, or 1,116,600 acres. It comprehends thirteen cities, with their respective suburbs, fifty-six market-towns, 649 villages, and 52,143 houses. The inhabitants amounted in the year 1823 to 354,175. The northern part of the circle is a po... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUNN | |
kp-eb0705-061203-1019 | BRUNO, Jordano, was born at Nola, in the kingdom of Naples, and about the year 1582 began to call in question some of the tenets of the Romish church, which occasioned his retiring to Geneva; but after two years stay there he expressed his aversion to Calvinism in such a manner that he was expelled the city. After havi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUNO | |
kp-eb0705-061204-1019 | BRUNSWICK, Duchy of. See Germany. Brunswick, a city, the capital of the duchy of the same name, in Germany. It is situated on the small navigable river Oker, which joins the Aller, and then falls into the Weser. It is an open place, the fortifications having been demolished and converted into public walks. It is a well... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUNSWICK | |
kp-eb0705-061205-1019 | BRUNTISLAND. See Burntisland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUNTISLAND | |
kp-eb0705-061206-1019 | BRUSH, an assemblage of hairs and hogs’ bristles, fastened in the holes of a wooden handle or board, pierced for that purpose, and serving to cleanse divers bodies by rubbing therewith. The manner of making brushes is by folding the hair or bristle in two, bringing it by means of a packthread, which is engaged in the f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUSH | |
kp-eb0705-061207-1019 | BRUSSELS, a city, one of the capitals of the kingdom of the Netherlands, and, till the separation of Holland with Belgium, alternately with the Hague the seat of the government. It is also the capital of the province of South Brabant, and of the circle, containing ten cantons and a hundred and twenty-nine communes, tak... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 50 59' 50" N 4 16' 10" E | BRUSSELS |
kp-eb0705-061301-1032 | BRUTE, a general name for all animals except mankind.
Among brutes the monkey kind bear the nearest resemblance to man, both in the external shape and internal structure, but more in the former than in the latter. In the monkey kind the highest and the nearest approach to the likeness of man is the ourang ou tang, or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUTE | |
kp-eb0705-061701-1084 | BRUTTI, in Ancient Geography, one of the two peninsulas of Italy (the ancient Calabria being the other); stretching to the south towards Sicily; bounded by the sea on every side except by the isthmus, between the river Laus and the Thurii, where it is terminated by Lucania; and inhabited by the Brutii, for whose countr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUTTI | |
kp-eb0705-061702-1084 | BRUTON, a market-town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Somerset, a hundred and nine miles from London, on the river Brue. It is a well-built town, at which the quarter-sessions for the county are held. Some silk mills have been established here, and some trade is carried on in stockings and woollen goo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUTON | |
kp-eb0705-061703-1084 | BRUTUS, or Bkute, according to the old exploded history of this country by Geoffroy of Monmouth, was the first king of Britain. He is said to have been the son of Sylvius, who was the son of Ascanius the son of Aeneas, and born in Italy. Killing his father by chance, he fled into Greece, where he took prisoner King Pad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUTUS | |
kp-eb0705-061801-1097 | BRUX, a city in the circle of Saatz, and Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It is situated on the river Vila, and contains a philosophical institution with six professors, four churches, a monastery, and 2950 inhabitants, who carry on cotton and mineral acid manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUX | |
kp-eb0705-061802-1097 | BRUYERE, John de la, a celebrated French author, was born at Dourdan in the year 1664. He wrote Characters describing the manners of his age, in imitation of Theophrastus; which characters were not always imaginary or general, but descriptive, as was well known at the time, of persons of considerable rank. In the year ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRUYERE | |
kp-eb0705-061803-1097 | BRYANT, Sir Francis, a soldier, statesman, and a poet of no inconsiderable fame in his time. In the year 1522, the 14th of Henry VIII., he attended in a military capacity the Earl of Surrey in his expedition to the coast of Brittany, and commanded the troops in the attack of the town of Morlaix, which he took and burnt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRYANT | |
kp-eb0705-061901-1110 | BRYENNIUS, Manuel, a Greek writer on music, is supposed to have flourished under the elder Palaeologus, namely, about the year of Christ 1120. He wrote three books of harmonics, the first of which is a kind of commentary on Euclid, as the second and third are illustrative of Ptolemy. Meibomius had given the public expe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BRYENNIUS | |
kp-eb0705-061902-1110 | BRZEZANI, a circle in the Austrian province of Galicia, extending over 2316 square miles, or 1,482,240 acres, and comprehending four cities, fourteen towns, 317 villages, and 30,371 houses. The inhabitants in 1817 amounted to 182,300, of whom 11,320 were Jews; but they have much increased since that period. The distric... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 49 30' 25" N 24 35' 40" E | BRZEZANI |
kp-eb0705-061903-1110 | BUA, an island in the Adriatic Sea, belonging to the province of Spalatro, in the Austrian kingdom of Dalmatia. It is situated on the coast, opposite to Trau; is rich in wine, oil, and fruit; and contains six populous villages. There is in it a remarkable well of asphaltum. Long. 14. 10. E. Lat. 43. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 43 8' N 14 10' E | BUA |
kp-eb0705-061904-1110 | BUAT-NANCAY, Louis Gabriel, Count du, was born of an old family in Normandy on the 2d of March 1732. At an early age he entered into the order of Malta; and, by a fortunate accident, he became acquainted with the Chevalier Folard, author of the Commentaries on Polybius, who received him into his house and superintended... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUAT-NANCAY | |
kp-eb0705-062001-1123 | BUBASTIS, in the Egyptian mythology, one of the names of Isis or the moon. The Egyptians bestoweddif-ferent names on the sun, either to characterize his effects or his relations with respect to the earth; and they followed the same method respecting the moon. Chaeremon, a sacred writer of Egypt, leaves no doubt on this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUBASTIS | |
kp-eb0705-062002-1123 | BUC, George, a learned English antiquary, flourished in the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the reign of King James I. he was made one of the gentlemen of his majesty’s privy chamber, and knighted; he was also constituted master of the revels. What he mostly distinguished himself by was his writing the History... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUC | |
kp-eb0705-062003-1123 | BUCANEER, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was particularly given to the first French settlers on the island of St Domingo or Hayti, whose sole employment consisted in Hunting bulls or wild boars, in order to sell their hides and flesh. The name has also been applied to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCANEER | |
kp-eb0705-062601-1201 | BUCAREST, or Bucharest, a city in the district of Ilfow, and the capital of the province of Wallachia. It is situated on a fine and extensive plain, upon the banks of the Dumbowitza, which falls into the Danube above the fortιeSs of Silistria. It is the seat of a Greek archbishop, and contains sixty churches of that co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 44 26' 45" N 27 2' 10" E | BUCAREST |
kp-eb0705-062602-1201 | BUCCARI, a city in the Austrian province of Trieste, and circle of Montano. It is a well-frequented port for small vessels, being situated on a bay of the same name in the Gulf of Quarano. It has considerable traffic in wine and in wood, and a tunny fishery. The inhabitants are about 2000. Long. 14. 26. 12. E. Lat. 45.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 45 18' N 14 26' 12" E | BUCCARI |
kp-eb0705-062603-1201 | BUCCELLARII, an order of soldiery under the Greek emperors, appointed to guard and distribute the ammunition bread; though authors are somewhat divided as to their office and quality. Among the Visigoths buccellarius was a general name for a client or vassal who lived at the expense of his lord. Some give the denominat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCCELLARII | |
kp-eb0705-062604-1201 | BUCCELLATUM, among ancient military writers, denotes camp-bread, or biscuit baked hard and dry, both for lightness and keeping. Soldiers always carried with them enough for a fortnight, and sometimes much longer, during the time that military discipline was kept up. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCCELLATUM | |
kp-eb0705-062605-1201 | BUCCINA, an ancient musical and military instrument. It is usually taken for a kind of trumpet; which opinion is confirmed by Festus, by his defining it a crooked horn, played on like a trumpet. Vegetius observes, that the buccina was bent in a semicircle, in which respect it differed from the tuba or trumpet. It is ve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCCINA | |
kp-eb0705-062606-1201 | BUCCINO, a city in the province Principato-Citeriore of the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the river Botta, at its junction with the Negro, over which is an antique Roman bridge. It contains 5320 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCCINO | |
kp-eb0705-062607-1201 | BUCENTAUR, a large galley of the doge of Venice, adorned with fine pillars on both sides, and gilt over from the prow to the stern. This vessel was covered over head with a kind of tent, made of purple silk. In it the doge received the great lords and persons of quality who visited Venice, accompanied with the ambassad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCENTAUR | |
kp-eb0705-062608-1201 | BUCEPHALA, or Bucephalos, in Ancient Geograpklh a town built by Alexander, on the western side of the Hydaspis, a river gí' India Citerior, so called in memory of his horse Bucephalus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCEPHALA | |
kp-eb0705-062609-1201 | BUCER, Martin, one of the first authors of the Reformation at Strasburg, was born in 1491, in Alsace, and took the religious habit of St Dominic at seven years of age; but meeting afterwards with the writings of Martin Luther, and comparing them with the Scriptures, he began to entertain doubts concerning several thing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCER | |
kp-eb0705-062701-1214 | BUCHAN, a district of Scotland, lying partly in the shire of Aberdeen and partly in that of Banff. It gives the title of earl to the noble and ancient family of Erskine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCHAN | |
kp-eb0705-062702-1214 | BUCHANAN, George, one of the most illustrious characters of the sixteenth century, was born about the beginning of February in the year 1506. His father was Thomas, the second son of Thomas Buchanan of Drum-mikill; his mother Agnes Heriot, of the family of Tra-broun. The house from which he descended he has himself cha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCHANAN | |
kp-eb0705-063401-1305 | BUCHEN, a city in the bailiwick of Bischofsheim, in the duchy of Baden. It stands on the river Morrn, and contains 2340 inhabitants, carrying on various trades, among whom are many families of Jews. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCHEN | |
kp-eb0705-063402-1305 | BUCK, a circle in the Prussian government of Posen, formerly part of Poland. It extends over 371 square miles, or 237,440 acres, and contains six small cities and 117 villages, with 30,170 inhabitants. It is a woody, and in great part a sandy district. The chief place, of the same name, contains 222 houses and 1425 inh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCK | |
kp-eb0705-063403-1305 | BUCKDEN, a town of the hundred of Toesland, in the county of Huntingdon, sixty-one miles from London, on the great road to York. At this place there is a fine palace, the country residence of the Bishop of Lincoln. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 869, in 1811 to 914, and in 1821 to 973. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKDEN | |
kp-eb0705-063404-1305 | BUCKEBURG, a city, the capital of the dominions of the prince of Schauenburg-Lippe. It stands on the side of a hill, at the foot of which runs the river Aa, about seven miles from Minden. It has nothing remarkable except the castle of the prince, with a park around it, and the usual appendages of miniature royalty. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 52 15' 47" N 8 57' 21" E | BUCKEBURG |
kp-eb0705-063405-1305 | BUCKENHAM, New, a market-town of the hundred of Shropham, in the county of Norfolk, ninty-five miles from London. The market is held on a Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 664, in 1811 to 691, and in 1821 to 720. Old Buckenham, one mile and a half distant from the above, though not a market-town, is the mos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKENHAM | |
kp-eb0705-063406-1305 | BUCKINGHAM, the chief town of the county of that name, fifty-seven miles from London, on the river Ouse, over which there are three stone bridges. The streets are crooked and narrow, and the houses not remarkable for beauty. The assizes are held here alternately with Aylesbury, and also the quarter sessions. There is a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKINGHAM | |
kp-eb0705-063407-1305 | BUCKLER, a piece of defensive armour used by the ancients. It was worn on the left arm, and composed of wickers woven together, or wood of the lightest sort, covered with hides, and fortified with plates of brass or other metal. The figure was sometimes round, sometimes oval, and sometimes almost square. Many of these ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKLER | |
kp-eb0705-063408-1305 | BUCKRAM, in commerce, a sort of coarse linen cloth stiffened with glue, and used in the making of garments, to keep them in the form intended. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKRAM | |
kp-eb0705-063409-1305 | BUCKS, or Buckinghamshire, an interior county of England. It is bounded on the north-west and north by Northamptonshire, on the west by Oxfordshire, on the south by Berkshire, and on the east by Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, and in part by Middlesex, the southernmost part of the county, which ends in a point, approac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCKS | |
kp-eb0705-063501-1318 | BUCOLIC, in ancient poetry, a kind of poem relating to shepherds and country affairs, which, according to the generally received opinion, was of Sicilian origin. Bucolics, says Vossius, have some conformity with comedy. Like it, they are pictures and imitations of ordinary life; with this difference, however, that come... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUCOLIC | |
kp-eb0705-063502-1318 | BUCOVAR, a small circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, surrounding the city of the same name, extending over two hundred and sixty-six square miles or 170,240 acres. The city stands at the junction of the [7:5:636] Buka with the Danube. It contains one Catholic and two Greek churches, with seven hundred houses, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 45 21' 9" N 18 55' 20" E | BUCOVAR |
kp-eb0705-063601-1331 | BUDA, or Ofen, the capital of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, jointly with the city of Pesth, with which it is in immediate communication by means of a bridge of boats leading to Margaret’s Island. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, is the residence of the palatines, and the seat of the boards of the seve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | 47 29' 44" N 18 55' 25" E | BUDA |
kp-eb0705-063602-1331 | BUDAEUS, William, descended of an ancient and illustrious family, was - born at Paris in 1467. When young he was placed under masters; but barbarism prevailed so much in the schools of Paris, that Budaeus took a dislike to them, and spent his whole time in idleness, till his parents sent him to the university of Orlean... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDAEUS | |
kp-eb0705-063603-1331 | BUDDAEUS, John Francis, a celebrated Lutheran divine, and one of the most learned men Germany has produced, was born in 1667, at Anclam, a town of Pomerania, where his father was minister. He studied with great distinction at Greifswald and at Wittenberg; and having attained to eminence in languages, theology, and hist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDDAEUS | |
kp-eb0705-063604-1331 | BUDDHA or Buddiiu, one of the two appearances of Vishnu, assumed for the purpose of deluding the enemies of the gods, and effecting their destruction by leading them to profess heretical opinions, and thus to reject the Hindu religion. In the Bhagawat, a work held in high esteem by the great majority of the Hindus, it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDDHA | |
kp-eb0705-063801-1357 | BUDGELL, Eustace, an ingenious writer, was the son of Gilbert Budgell, doctor of divinity, and was born at St Thomas, near Exeter, about the year 1685. He was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, from which he removed to the Inner Temple, London; but instead of studying the law, for which his father intended him,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDGELL | |
kp-eb0705-063802-1357 | BUDNAEANS, in Ecclesiastical History, so called from the name of their leader, Simon Budnaeus. They not only denied all kind of religious worship to Jesus Christ, but asserted that he was not begotten by any extraordinary act of divine power, being born, like other men, in a natural way. Budnaeus was deposed from his m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDNAEANS | |
kp-eb0705-063803-1357 | BUDUN, the name of one of the Ceylonese gods. He is supposed to have arrived at supremacy after successive transmigrations from the lowest state of an insect through the various species of living animals. There have been three deities of this name, each of which is supposed to have reigned as long as a bird takes to re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
... | BUDUN |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.