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A product of the Scottish enlightenment, the Britannica was originally published in Edinburgh in the second-half of the 18th century. The first Britannica was the brainchild of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, who published the reference work pseudonymously as a "Society of Gentlemen." The editor was scholar William Smellie, then twenty-eight years old, who was offered £200 to produce the Encyclopaedia in 100 parts and three volumes. The first part appeared in December 1768, priced six ...

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The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910-1911) is the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. [1] It was edited by Hugh Chisholm. Some articles were written by the best-known scholars and learned gentlemen of the age, such as Edmund Gosse, J.B. Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Prince Peter Kropotkin, T.H. Huxley, and William Michael Rossetti, and others well known to that era. Many others were carried over from the Ninth Edition, some with minimal updating, some of the bo ...

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The 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910-1911) is the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. [1] It was edited by Hugh Chisholm. Some articles were written by the best-known scholars of the age, such as Edmund Gosse, J.B. Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Prince Peter Kropotkin, T.H. Huxley, and William Michael Rossetti, and others well known to that era. Many others were carried over from the Ninth Edition, some with minimal updating, some of the book-length articles divided ...

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Knowledge of Ancient Indian History and Culture: The Mahabharata contains also the immortal discourse of Bhishma on Dharma, which he gave to Yudhishthira, when he was lying on the bed of arrows. The whole Mahabharata forms an encyclopaedia of history, morals and religion unsurpassed by any other epic in the world.

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The Mahabharata is the history of the Pandavas and the Pandavas. It gives a description of the great war, the Battle of Kurukshetra, which broke out between the Kauravas and the Pandavas who were cousins and descendants of the lunar race. The Mahabharata is an encyclopaedia of Hindu Dharma. It is rightly called the fifth Veda. There is really no theme in religion, philosophy, mysticism and polity which this great epic does not touch and expound.

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Rhabdomancy is a type of divination in which a hazel rod is used to trace the presence of minerals or metals underground. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Other related archivesThe Nuttall Encyclopaedia, divination, hazel, metals, minerals, public domain

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In India, a zenana is the part of a house reserved for the women among Hindu families of good caste. Only since 1860 have Christian women missionaries been admitted to the zenana, and a freer interaction established. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Other related archives1860, Christian, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, house, public domain, women

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Lustrum was a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors of Rome in name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census, and which took place after a period of five years, so that the name came to denote a period of that length. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Other related archivesThe Nuttall Encyclopaedia, censors of Rome, census, expiation, public domain, purification, s

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The Bannatyne Club was founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, poetry, or general literature. It printed 116 volumes in all. It was dissolved in 1861. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Other related archives1861, Scottish, Sir Walter Scott, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, public domain

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A heptad is a group or a series of seven items. In chemistry, heptad is used to denote an atom that is the equivalent of seven atoms of hydrogen. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ...

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Shraddha are the funeral rites and funeral offerings for the dead among the Hindus. Shraddha also happens to be a popular Indian female name and can be translated quite accurately as "Faith" in English. Shraddha at the Banglapedia This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ...

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Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is the title of an encyclopedia published in Chicago, Illinois since the 1920s. The company was founded by Chandler B. Beach and in 1907 continued by F. E. Compton. In the 1940s it was acquired by the Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. In the creation of Encyclopædia Britannica Online (1994), the company was able to build on experience from the existing multimedia edition of Compton's Encyclopedia (1992). Since the 1990s, Compton's Encyclopedia is a pro ...

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This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain. Abergavenny (Welsh: Abergafenni or Y Fenni) is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is 14 miles west of Monmouth. Situated at the confluence of a small stream called the Gavenny with the River Usk, it is almost surrounded by lofty hills. The town was formerly walled, and contains the remains of a castle built soon after the Norman Conquest, frequently the s ...

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Émile Deschamps (1795-1871) was a French poet. He was born at Bourges. Deschamps was one of the chiefs of the Romantic school. Émile Deschamps - External Link. Works by Émile Deschamps at Project Gutenberg This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ...

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Zephaniah or Tzfanya (צְפַנְיָה "Concealed of/is the LORD", Standard Hebrew Ẓəfanya, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣəp̄anyāh) is the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. Also called Sophonias as in the New Catholic Encyclopaedia and in Easton's [Bible] Dictionary (see below). The name means God has concealed, or God of darkness ...

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Saint Walstan or Walston (d. 1016), of British birth, is the patron saint of farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches and husbandry. He gave up wealth for agriculture, and died at the plough. St. Walstan is represented with a scythe in his hand and cattle near him. Legend of St. Walstan St. Walstan at the Catholic Encyclopedia This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ...

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In some denominations of Christianity, the cure of souls (Latin cura animarum) is the exercise by a priest of his or her office. This typically embraces instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and administration of sacraments, to the congregation over which he or she has authority from the church. Cure of souls - External link. Cure of Souls at the Catholic Encyclopaedia ...

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Abaddon is a Biblical Hebrew word meaning "destruction". In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11) it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna. In Revelation 9:11, it is described personified as the demon Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss", rendered in Greek as Apollyon. Abaddon - Reference. Article about abaddon from the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) < ...

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