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The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica noted that, in Kalgan, " the ordinary houses have an unusual appearance, from the fact that they are mostly roofed with earth and become covered with green-sward " and that " on the way to Peking the road passes over a beautiful bridge of seven arches, ornamented with marble figures of animals ".
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The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.
* All Catholic Church Ecumenical Councils – All the Decrees * Council in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.
The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.
In the words of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: " In the attempt to govern, the Assembly failed altogether.
The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.
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As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form.
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering — yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children — that in an audience he had with
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Furthermore, as noted by Bohr, Moseley's law provided a reasonably complete experimental set of data that supported the ( new from 1911 ) conception by Ernest Rutherford and Antonius Van den Broek of the atom, with a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons in which the atomic number is understood to be the exact physical number of positive charges ( later discovered and called protons ) in the central atomic nuclei of the elements.
In 1911, the famous food book The Grocer's Encyclopedia noted that a cannery in Holland included in its " vegetables-and-meat " ready-cooked combinations, a " chestnuts and sausages " casserole besides the more classic " beef and onions " and " green peas and veal ".
In 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted that " Our knowledge of Praxiteles has received a great addition, and has been placed on a satisfactory basis, by the discovery at Olympia in 1877 of his statue of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, a statue which has become famous throughout the world.
* The Overbeck Sisters-four daughters of John and Sarah Overpeck who hand-produced their internationally-known Overbeck Art Pottery in Cambridge City from 1911 – 1955, noted for their Arts and Crafts designs, distinctive glazes and work in the grotesque style
Built from native limestone based on plans by noted church architect John T. Comes, St. Fidelis was completed in 1911.
" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.
Bernard Herrmann born Max Herman ( June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975 ) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica noted “ Grosart's faults of style and occasional inaccuracy ,” but claimed that they “ do not seriously detract from the value of his work .”
The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell ( June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958 ), Connee Boswell ( original name Connie ) ( December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976 ), and Helvetia " Vet " Boswell ( May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988 ), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation.
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS ( 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003 ) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry.
When the election was called, many commentators noted that it ended the second shortest majority mandate in Canadian history ; only Wilfrid Laurier's term of office from 1908 to 1911 had been even more brief.
Except where otherwise noted with inline footnotes, this article is entirely sourced to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Mitchell William Sharp, PC, CC ( May 11, 1911 – March 19, 2004 ) was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, was most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister.
Among McCay's most noted films are Little Nemo ( 1911 ), Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ) and The Sinking of the Lusitania ( 1918 ).
In a conversation with Holand in 1911, the lexicographer of the Old Swedish Dictionary ( Soderwall ) noted that his work was limited mostly to surviving legal documents written in formal and stilted language and that the root word opdage must have been a borrowed Germanic term ( i. e. from Low German, Dutch or High German ).
Despite the critics, the poem was immediately popular with readers and continued so for many decades ; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica noted that " The metre is monotonous and easily ridiculed, but it suits the subject, and the poem is very popular.
From 1907 to 1911, Eastman completed the work toward a Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ) in philosophy at Columbia University under the noted philosopher John Dewey, and was a member of both the Delta Psi and Phi Beta Kappa societies.
Later Cardinal Moran ( 1830 – 1911 ), a noted historian, wrote a History of the Catholic Church in Australasia.
The notion of parliamentary sovereignty began to be challenged with the Parliament Act 1911 which changed the nature of what was meant by parliament, as Dicey regretfully noted in the Introduction to the 8th edition of his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ( 1915 ), but that while the reality was now Cabinet and political party were supreme ( pp lxxii-lxxiv ), in law parliament was still sovereign albeit that " the share of sovereignty " of the Commons had increased ( p xlii ).
Oswald Barron, in an influential article on Heraldry in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, noted:
As one of the older figures of the Republican regime ( he was 71 ), he was elected President on August 24, 1911 ; he did not campaign for the position, and noted that it was a heavy burden, which he believed he was personally incapable of fulfilling its duties, but accepted it " for the good of the Republic ".
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