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Anglo-Saxons, 1344, 3196; conquer Brit .,
1280, 1097, 777 ; Christianity introduced, 711, 1280; jury system, 2075;
language, 1294; laws, 2075; literature,
1311, 425, 646; witenagemot, 2785.
See also in Index Britain.
Ango'la or Portuguese West Africa, colony
on s.w. coast; 484,800 sq. m. ; pop.
4,120,000 ; cap. Sao Paulo de Loanda ;
coffee, rice, rubber, sugar, fruits, dried
fish; maps, 8330, 58; occupied by
Portugal, 57.
Ango'ra or Enguri, city of Turkey, cap. of
the republic, 215 m . s.E. of Constantinople; pop. 35,000; mohair cloth;
Grand National Assembly held April,
1920, set up "Nationalist" government
h ere to administer affairs in Asia Minor,
breaking off r elations with Sultan's govt.
at Constantinople ; battle (1402), 3606,
3608.
Angora cat, 761, p ictures, 760.
Angora goat, 1621, 887.
Angouleme (an-iiu-lem'), Fr. City 60 m.
N.E. of Bordeaux on Charente R. ; pop.
38,000 ; paper, wine, linen ; cathedral
begun 1101; birthplace of Margaret of
Navarre.
An' gra, spt. and chief tn. of the Azores,
pop. 10,000.
Anhalt (an'hiilt). Republic in cent. Ger.,
former duchy; 888 sq. m.; pop. 332,000;
cap. Dessau ; agriculture ; coal and
other minerals.
Anhwei or Nganbwei. Inland provinc~ of
China in E. ; 54,810 sq. m. ; pop.
14,100,000 ; cap. Anking.
Ani (a'ne), a t ropical bird, 444.
Aniline (an'i-lin) dyes, 1152, 895, 1947;
industry in Ger., 1152, 1588.
Animal breeding. See i n Index Live
stock.
Animal' cule, an animal of microscopic size,
as r otifers or " wheel animalcules."
Animals, 135- 6, 3836- 7, pictures, 49- 56,
131- 8, 2303- 18, 3745..7; adaptations
caused by struggle for existence, 135,
1190, 1353; bacteria, 2397- 8; beginnings of life on earth, 1352 ; cat
family, p ictures, 751- 8; calls, 1268- 9;
classification, 136 ; development (embryology). 1268- 9; distinguished from
plants, 136; distribution (ecology),
1190, 878 ; domestication a step in
· civilization, 1122, 252 ; evolution, 136,
1353- 5; hibernation, or sleep in wiiiter season, 1842- 3 ; longevity, 135,
picture, 138 ; largest living, 1390 ; lowest
forms (protozoa), 2987; migrations,
2402-4; nature study, 2533- 52 ; pa,rasiteg and parasitism, 2778- 9; perfumes
from, 2812; pets, care of, 2831- 4;
phosphorescence, 2846; protective coloration, 666- 8; taxidermy, 3495. See
also in Index Biology ; Cell ; Ecology ;
Embryology ; Evolution ; Heredity ; Reproduction, et c. ; and the individual
animals and animal groups such as
Birds ; Fish ; Insects.
Animals, prehistoric. See in I ndex Prehistoric animals.
Animal worship, 2520; in anc. Egypt, 759,
2504, 1017; in India, 604, 1927, 897,
2453- 4.
An'imism, 1927.
Anise (dm.'is), a plant of t h e parsley family,
native of N . Africa, widely cult ivated in
Ger.., S. Europe, India; aniseed, 3368.
Anjou (an-zhy,'), great fief of m edireval Fr.
on both sides of Loire R. ; cap. Angers ;
h eld by Eng. 1154-1204 ; 1344, 1829,
2066, map, 1486.
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Ankle, 1471.
Anna, a coin, 1930.
"Anna Kare' nina." Novel by Tolstoy,
and its heroine ; intense psychologjcal
study with background of modern social
life; character of Levin partly autobiographical.
Annam. See in Index Anam.
An'nam, Scot. R., flows to Solway Firth ;
51 m. long.
Annam, Scot. spt. tn., Dumfriesshire;
leather, rope, cotton industries ; pop.
3,928 ; 1149.
Annap' olis, cap. of Md., U.S.A. ; has
U.S. naval academy; oyster canning
industry; pop. 11,214 ; 2359.
Annap' olis, Nova Scotia, tn. on arm of
ANTIOCHUS IV r
Bay of F undy, 96 m. w. of Halifax ;
pop. 1,000; founded as Port Royal,
2648.
Anne (cln), qu~en of Eng. (1665-1714),
pious and good-hearted, but dull, slow
and obstinate; she supported Williaro of
Orange against her father James II ;
during her r eign Scot. was united with
Eng. ; deserts James II, 2034; favours
Ma.rlborough, 2351; literature under,
1313.
Anne Boleyn (bul'in) (1507-36), qu~en of
Henry ;VIII of Eng., 1832.
Anne of Austria (1601-66). Daughter of
Philip III of Spain; queen of Louis
XIII of F r.; regent during minority
of h er son Louis XIV ; her chief minister
Mazarin.
Anne of Beaujeu (1462 ?-1522), sist er of
Charles VIII and r egent of Fr. 1483-90,
798.
Anne of Brittany (1477-1514). Queen of
Charles VIII of Fr. and later of Louis
XII; united Brittany to Fr.
Anne of Cleves (klevz) (1517 ?- 57), 4th
quP.en of H enry VIII of Eng., 1833.
Anneal' ing, process of h eating substance
and cooling slowly to make it less
brittle; glass, 1616, 1618; iron, 1991.
An' nelids, animal group containing the
segmented worms.
Famous 18th-cent.
• ' Annle Laurie. ''
Scots song by William Douglass ; a real
person, daughter of Sir Robett Laurie,
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first baronet of Maxwellton.
Annual parallu ot stars, 3402.
Annual plants, 437, 2902.
An'nular eclipse, defined, 1190.
Annunzia' ta, Order of the, 106f3.
Annunzio (an-nun'dz!- o) , Gabrlele d' (b.
1864), !tal. novoltst, dramatist, poet,
he was cr eated Prince of Montenevoso in
1924; 2000, 2652; seizes Fiume, 1429,
a819.
Anode (an' od), defined, 1247; of Crookes
tube, picturez. 3825.
Anodynes (Cln'o-dlinz), 1142.
An' olis, a lizard, 2213, pieture, 3075.
Anopheles (a-~!tote-lez) mosquitoes, 2484.
Anselm (dn'selm), Saint (1033-1109), ar chbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109 ; and
William Rufus, 3756 ; picture, 859.
An' sgar or Anscha.' rius (801-65), Frankish
missionary to Scandinavia and N. Ger.,
first bishop of Hamburg, 1097.
An'son, George, Lord (1697-1762). Brit.
admiral ; commanded victorious expedition against Spaniards, 1740; defeated Fr. navy off Finisterre, 1747, for
which he was r aised to peerage. First
lord of the Admiralty, 1751- 6.
Anson, Sir William Reynell, Bart. (18431914). Brit. jurist and author ; sec. to
Board of Education, 1902-5; wrote
works on Law of Contract and Constitutional Law.
An' stey, F. (b. 1856). Pen-name of Thomas
Anstcy Guthrie, Brit. humorous novelist
and playwright ; for some time on staff
of " Punch" ; ("Vice Versa," " The
Brass Bottle," both dramatized) ; wrote
"The Man from Blankley's," a popular
play.
Ant, 139- 42, 1958; fossil, picture, 124 ;
harboured by acacia, picture, 2901 ;
mandibles, piot·ure, 1952 ; nests and
community life, 139 40; use aphides as
" cows," 161.
Antmus (dn-te''lls), giant slain by Hercules,
1835.
Antakiyeh (an-td-ke'ya), city of Syria (anc.
Antioch), pop. 22,000; 157.
Antananarivo (an-td-na-nd·re'vo) or Tananarivo, Madagascar, cap. and largest
city; pop. 63,000 ; 2279.
Antarctic circle, 2155; first crossed by
Capt. Cook, 960, 2928.
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Antarctic continent (Antarctica), 151- 4,
picture- map, 153; elevation, 954; picture, 954; exploration, 2928- 9, 3212 ;
ice cap, 1608, pictures, 143- 50; penguins, 2807- 8, picture, 147.
Antarctic or Humboldt current, 1194.
Antarctic Ocean, waters surrounding
Antarctic Continent ; some modern
geographers consider t hese waters as
southern ends of Atlantic, Pacific, and
India n oceans ; 151- 2.
Antarctic skua, a bird, picture, 147.
Antares (an-ta'rez), a star, 3403.
Ant-eater, a mammal, 154 ; A ustrallan
(echidna), picture, 298; related to
armadillo, 218; " spiny," 1147.
Antefix, in architecture, upright ornament
at the eaves of a tiled roof, ]liding the
joints between two rows of tiles.
Antelope, 154, pictures, 50, 155, 2309;
related to cattle; 765.
Antenna.-See in Index Aerial.
Anten' nm, of animaLq, 1957 ; ant, 139 ;
pictures, 139, 140 ; bee, picture, 391 ;
bee drone, 393; beetle, 404; crab, 1005,
pictures, 1007 ; crayfish, pictttre, 1009;
different in moths and butterflies, 631,
pictures, 634; mosquito, picture, 2483 ; .
lobster, 2216, pictures, 2216; snail, .
3310.
Anten' nule, a small feeler in front of the
true antennre of crustaceans ; of crayfish, picture, 1009.
An' ther, in plants, 1439, pictures, 527- 33, .
1441- 3.
Antherid' ium, 2485.
Anthony (dn't6-ni ) Saint (250 ?-356 ?), b.
in Egypt, lived in solitude for years, r esisted many strange temptations which
are favourite subjects in literattrre ;
founded Christian monasticism, 2460.
Anthony of Padua, Saint (1195- 1231),
most celebrated of followers of St.
Francis d' Assisi ; wonderful preacher ;
legends tell of fishes leaping from the
water to hear him.
Anthopbyl'lite, variety of asbestos, 238.
Anthozo' a, class of crolenterate animals ;
corals, 971.
An' thracene oil, obtained from coal-tar,
896.
An'thracite or hard coal, 893, 719, picture,
2432.
An' thrax, an infectious disease ; bacillus
discovered, 1594; Pasteur discovers
vaccine, 2790.
Anthropoi' dea, 2320.
Anthropology (an-thro-pol' o-(jt), the science
of man, 156; classification of man, by
language, 2842- 3; by skin colour, 3013;
by skull measurements, 3013; origin
of man, 2320, 136, 1353 ; prehistoric
man, 3013, 768- 770 ; races of mankind, 3013-4; relation to sociology,
3320. See also in I ndex Arohmology;
Civilization ; Man ; Races of Mankind ;
Sociology.
Anthropom' etry, branch of anthropology,
156.
Anthropomor'phism, representation of God,
or of the gods, in human form; derivation of word, 1725.
Anti-aircraft gun, picture, 710.
An' ticline, a rock fold with the convex side
upward, picture, 2677.
Anticosti (dn-ii -kos'ti ), Quebec. large barren
:Sl. in Gulf of St. Lawrence ; fishing and
game preserve, 3181.
An' tidotes for poisons, 2924.
Anti-friction alloys, 1514, 157.
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Antigona (dn-tf,§'o-ne), in Gk. myth.,
daughter of <Edipus ; follows father into
exile ; buries brother in defiance of
king's order ; leading <Edipus, picture,
1727 ; tragedy by Sophocles, 1728.
Antilles (dn-ti l'ez), all W . Indies isls. except
Baham as, 3744; map, 1032.
Antilochus (dn-til' 6-kw), in Gk. myth.,
beautiful youth, friend of Achilles ; one
of suitors of Helen of Troy ; kHled by
Memnon.
An' timony, a metallic element, 157; found
in Afghanistan, 40, in Algeria, 102, in
Bolivia, 486- 7, in Colombia, 918 ; in
tartar emetic, 3491 ; used in alloys,
105, 3621.
Antinous (dn-tin' o-ils), favourite page of
Hadrian, picture, 1713.
Antioch (dn'ti -ok), Syria, anc. centre of
Gk. culture; modern tn. Antakiyeh;
pop. 30,000; 157; bishop formerly called
" pope," 2767; in Crusades, 1025, 3482.
Antiochus (an-ti' 6-lcUs) I, Soter, king of
Seleucid dynasty in Syria ; ruled 280 ?261 B.c. ; conquered Palestine.
Antiochus Ill, the Great, of Syria; rnled
223-187 B . C. ; sh eltered H annibal and
warred wit h Rome.
Antiochus IV, Epiphanes. (e-pif'd-nez), of
Syria ; ruled 176-164 B.c. ; oppresses
Jews, 2062.
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