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Wife of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, daughter of the preceding. Both she and her mother are represented by historians as profligate and unfaithful, and quite unworthy the affection lavishly bestowed upon them by their husbands.
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Worship of fire, especially as embodied in the sun viewed as the most express and emphatic exhibition of beneficent divine power.
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Writer of tales for young people, "Parables from Nature," and editor of Aunt Judy's Magazine; daughter of the chaplain of the Victory, Nelson's ship at Trafalgar, in whose arms Nelson breathed his last (1809-1873).
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Zoologist and biologist, born at Étampes; he was educated for the Church, but while studying theology at Paris his love for natural science was awakened, and the study of it henceforth became the ruling passion of his life; was made professor of Zoology in the Museum of Natural History in Paris; accompanied Napoleon to Egypt as a member of the scientific commission, and returned with rich collections, while his labors were rewarded by his election to the Academy of Sciences; a scientific mission to Portugal in 1808 next engaged him, and a year later he was nominated to the chair of Zoology in the Faculty of Sciences at Paris; the main object of his scientific writing was to establish, in opposition to the theories of his friend Cuvier, his conception of a grand unity of plan pervading the whole organic kingdom (1772-1844).
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Duchesne, French historian and geographer, born in Touraine; famous for his researches in it and in French antiquities, and for histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively; his industry was unwearied; he left more than 100 folios in MS. (1584-1640).
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Gründer des Franziskanerordens, in Assisi, Umbrien, geboren, begann sein Leben als Soldat, aber während einer schweren Krankheit wurden seine Gedanken weltlichen zum Himmel gewandt, und verpflichtete er sich einem Leben in Armut und Selbstverleugnung, mit dem Ergebnis, dass seine Begeisterung Nachahmung hervorrief und einige seiner Nachbarn mit ihm zusammenschlossen und eine Bruderschaft bildeten, die zu dem Befehl gab, St. Dominic und er waren Zeitgenossen ", die erstere Lehre zeigte christlichen Männer, wie sie sich verhalten sollten, und letztere, was sie denken sollten", jeder schickte eine kleine Anzahl von Schülern zum Lehren und Predigen nach Florenz, wo ihr Einfluss sich bald bemerkbar machte , St. Franziskus in 1212 und St. Dominic in 1220.
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En fransk fysiolog och fysiker, känd för hans undersökningar om passage av vätskor genom Membranös vävnader (1776-1847).
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En rysk flod, skiljer sig från Duna, även kallad Duna och ett viktigt, vilka flöden N. till Vita havet.
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Ursprungliga namnet på stammarna av malajer av en överlägsen klass aboriginer till Borneo.
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