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Xerxes
Language; Encyclopedias
A king of Persia, son of Darius I., whom he succeeded on the throne in 485 B.C.; in his ambition to subdue Greece, which, after suppressing a revolt in Egypt, he in 481 essayed to do with an immense ...
John Horne Tooke
Language; Encyclopedias
Baptismal name John Horne, born, the son of a well-to-do poulterer, in London; graduated at Cambridge, and to please his father took holy orders in 1760, but after some years, during which he had ...
St. Vitalis
Language; Encyclopedias
A martyr of the 1st century, who was stoned to death, is represented as buried in a pit with stones on his head.
Zeit-geist
Language; Encyclopedias
(Time-spirit), German name for the spirit of the time, or the dominant trend of life and thought at any particular period.
Worms
Language; Encyclopedias
An old German town in Hesse-Darmstadt, in a fertile plain on the left bank of the Rhine, 40 m. SE. of Mainz, with a massive Romanesque cathedral having two domes and four towers; it was here the Diet ...
Zoar
Language; Encyclopedias
A small village of Ohio, U.S., 91 m. S. of Cleveland, and the seat of a German Socialistic community.
Thomas Woolston
Language; Encyclopedias
An eccentric semi-deistical writer, born at Northampton, who maintained a lifelong polemic against the literal truth of the Bible, and insisted that the miraculous element in it must be allegorically ...
