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A name given to presumed living matter forming the physical bases of all forms of animal and vegetable life; the term is now superseded by the term bioplasm. See Dr. Stirling, "As Regards Protoplasm."
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A name given to the adherents of Luther, who, at the second Diet of Spires in 1529, protested against the revocation of certain privileges granted at the first Diet in 1526.
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A name given to the charity schools which provide education and, in most cases, food, clothing, and lodging for destitute children; they receive no Government support. The movement had its beginning in the magnanimous efforts of John Pounds (d. 1839), a shoemaker of Portsmouth; but the zeal and eloquence of Dr. Guthrie of Edinburgh greatly furthered the development and spread of these schools throughout the kingdom.
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A name given to the Primitive Methodists who seceded from the Wesleyan body on account of a deficiency of zeal.
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A name given to the purest kind of Florentine mosaic work, consists of hard stones characterised by brilliancy of color.
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A name the French give to a corrupt dialect of a language spoken in a remote province of a country.
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A name, now proper, now common, given in the Old Testament to the kings of Egypt, identified with that of the sun-god Phra, and applied to the king as his representative on earth; some 10 of the name occur in the Bible, and it is matter of difficulty often to distinguish one from another.
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A name, suggested by Waterloo, given to an insurrectionary gathering in 1819 of workers in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, to demand Parliamentary reform, and which was dispersed by the military to the sacrifice of 13 lives and the wounding of 600, a proceeding which excited wide-spread indignation, and contributed to promote the cause which it was intended to defeat.
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A naval station on the peninsula extending S. into the Gulf of Pechili; conceded to Russia on a lease of 99 years.
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