See also:LEMBERG (Pol. Lwdw, See also:Lat. Leopolis)
, the See also:capital of the crowniand of See also:Galicia, See also:Austria, 468 m
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N.W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail
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Pop
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(Ig0o) 159,618, of whom over 8o% were Poles, 10% Germans, and 8% Ruthenians; nearly 30% of the See also:population were See also:Jews
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According to population See also:Lemberg is the See also:fourth See also:city in the See also:Austrian See also:empire, coming after Vienna, See also:Prague and See also:Trieste
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Lemberg is situated on the small See also:river 'Peltew, an affluent of the See also:Bug, in a valley in the Sarmatian See also:plateau, and is surrounded by hills
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It is composed of the inner See also:town and of four suburbs
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The inner town was formerly fortified, but the fortifications were subjects might be treated without offence
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The See also:Pinto (1800) was transformed into See also:pleasure grounds in 1811
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Lemberg is the the result of a See also:wager that no further dramatic innovations were See also:residence of See also:Roman See also:Catholic, See also:Greek Catholic and Armenian possible after the comedies of See also:Beaumarchais
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It is a See also:historical archbishops, and contains three cathedrals
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The Roman See also:comedy on the subject of the Portuguese revolution of 1640
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Catholic See also:cathedral was finished by Casimir IV. in 1480 in See also:Gothic This See also:play was construed as casting reflections on the first See also:consul, See also:style; near it is a See also:chapel (1609) remarkable for its See also:architecture who had hitherto been a See also:firm friend of See also:Lemercier
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His extreme and See also:sculpture
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The Greek cathedral, built in 1740—1779 in the freedom of speech finally offended See also:Napoleon, and the See also:quarrel See also:Basilica style, is situated on a height which dominates the town. proved disastrous to Lemercier's See also:fortune for the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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None The Armenian cathedral was built in 1437 in the Armenian- of his subsequent See also:work fulfilled the expectations raised by See also:Byzantine style
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The Dominican See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, built in 1749 after See also:Agamemnon, with the exception perhaps of Fredegonde et the See also:model of St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's at See also:Rome, contains a See also:monument by Brunelzaut (1821)
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In 1810 he was elected to the See also:Academy, Thorvaldsen to the Countess Dunin-Borkowska; the Greek where he consistently opposed the romanticists, refusing to St See also:Nicholas church was built in 1292; and the Roman Catholic give his See also:vote to See also:Victor See also:Hugo
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In spite of this, he has some St See also:Mary church was built in 1363 by the first See also:German settlers. pretensions to be considered the earliest of the romantic school
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The town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall (1828–1837) with a See also:tower 250 ft. high is situated His Christophe See also:Colomb (1809), advertised on the playbill as a in the See also:middle of a square: Also notable are the hall of the comedie shakespirienne (sic), represented the interior of a See also:ship, estates (18777–1881), the See also:industrial museum, the See also:theatre, the and showed no respect for the unities
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Its numerous innovations See also:palace of the Roman Catholic See also:archbishop and several educational provoked such violent disturbances in the See also:audience that one establishments
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There are many beautiful private buildings, See also:person was killed and future representations had to be guarded broad and well-paved streets, numerous squares and public by the See also:police
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Lemercier wrote four See also:long and ambitious epic gardens
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At the See also:head of the educational institutions stands the poems: Homere, See also:Alexandre (18o1), L'Atlantiade, ou la theogonie university, founded in 1784 by See also:Joseph II., transformed into a newtonienne (1812) and Moise (1823), as well as an extraordinary lycee in 1803, and restored and reorganized in 1817
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Since 1871 Panhypocrisiade (1819–1832), a distinctly romantic See also:production the See also:language of instruction has been See also:Polish, and in 1901 the in twenty cantos, which has the sub-See also:title Spectacle infernal du university had fro lecturers, and was attended by 2060 students
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X VP siecle
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In it 16th-See also:century See also:history, with See also:Charles V. and There are also a See also:polytechnic, gymnasia—for Poles, Ruthenians See also:Francis I. as See also:principal personages, is played out on an imaginary and Germans respectively—seminaries for priests, training See also:stage by demons in the intervals of their sufferings
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Lemercier colleges for teachers, and other See also:special and technical See also:schools. died on the 7th of See also:June 1840 in See also:Paris
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In Lemberg is the See also:National See also:Institute founded by See also:Count Ossolinski, See also:LEMERY, See also:NICOLAS (1645–1715), See also:French chemist, was See also:born at which contains a library of books and See also:manuscripts See also:relating See also:Rouen on the 17th of See also:November 1645
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After learning See also:pharmacy chiefly to the history and literature of See also:Poland, valuable See also:anti- in his native town he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of C
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See also:Glaser's in Paris, and quarian and scientific collections, and a See also:printing See also:establishment; then went to See also:Montpellier, where he began to lecture on See also:chemistry. also the Dzieduszycki museum with collections of natural He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his history and ethnography relating chiefly to Galicia
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Industrially lectures, but in 1683, being a Calvinist, he was obliged to retire and commercially Lemberg is the most important city in Galicia, to See also:England
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In the following See also:year he returned to See also:France, and its See also:industries including the manufacture of machinery and See also:iron turning Catholic in 1686 was able to reopen his See also:shop and resume wares, matches, stearin candles and See also:naphtha, arrack and See also:liqueurs, his lectures
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He died in Paris on the 19th of June 1715
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Lemery See also:chocolate, See also:chicory, See also:leather and See also:plaster of Paris, as well as See also:brewing, did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, See also:corn-milling and See also:brick and See also:tile making
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It has important I but holding chemistry to be a See also:demonstrative See also:science, confined See also:commerce in See also:linen, See also:flax, See also:hemp, See also:wool and seeds, and a considerable I himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. transit See also:trade
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Of the well-wooded hills which surround Lemberg, In consequence, his lecture-See also:room was thronged with See also:people of all sorts, anxious to hear a See also:man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone and the See also:elixir of See also:life as the See also:sole end of his science
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Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 See also:editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a See also:standard work
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His other publications included Pharmacopee universelle (1697), Traite universel See also:des drogues simples (1698), Traite de l'antimoine (1707), together with a number of papers contributed
the most important is the See also:Franz-Josef-See also:Berg to the N.E., with an See also:altitude of 1310 ft
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Several beautiful parks have been laid out on this See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill
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Leopolis was founded about 1259 by the Ruthenian See also:prince See also:Leo Danilowicz, who moved here his residence from See also:Halicz in 1270
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From Casimir the See also:Great, who captured it in 1340, it received the See also:Magdeburg rights, and for almost two See also:hundred years the public records were kept in German
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In 1412 it became
the see of a Roman Catholic archbishopric, and from 1432 until to the French Academy, one of which offered a chemical and 1772 it was the capital of the Polish See also:province of Reussen (Terra See also:physical explanation of underground fires, earthquakes, See also:lightning and See also:thunder
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He discovered that See also:heat is evolved when iron filings and See also:sulphur are rubbed together to a See also:paste with See also:water, and the artificial volcan de Lemery was produced by burying underground a considerable quantity of this mixture, which he regarded as a potent See also:agent in the See also:causation of volcanic See also:action
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His son Lours (1677–1743) was appointed physician at the Hotel Dieu in 1710, and became demonstrator of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in 1731
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He was the author of a Traite des aliments (1702), and of a Dissertation sur la nature des os (1704), as well as of a number of papers on chemical topics
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