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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 5 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 1 1 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
igure, strength, and warlike qualities, had, on the death of Constantine XI., prepared to seize the throne, but was prevented by Eudocia, who threw him into prison, and exiled him; but, either for reasons of state, or from affection, soon recalled him, and raised him to the command of the army. Her oath not to marry had been given in writing, and committed to the custody of the patriarch of Constantinople; but by a trick she recovered it, and, within eight months after her husband's death (A. D. 1068), married Romanus, and raised him to be colleague in the empire with herself and her sons. She had hoped to govern him, but was disappointed, and his assertion of his own will led to quarrels between them. During the captivity of Ronmanus, Joannes or John Ducas, brother of the late Constantine, who had been invested with the dignity of Caesar, declared Michael Parapinaces sole emperor, and banished Eudocia to a convent which she had herself built on the shore of the Propontis. On the death
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Michael Psellus or Michael Psellus the Younger or the Younger Michael Psellus (search)
onomachus (A. D. 1042-1054), his empress Theodora (to A. D. 1056), and Michael Stratonicus, who succeeded Theodora, and who entrusted Psellus with a conciliatory mission to Isaac Comnenus, whom the soldiers had saluted emperor in A. D. 1057. He still remained in favour with both these emperors, and with Constantinus Ducas, who succeeded Comnenus in A.D. 1060, and also with his successor Eudocia, and her three sons. When Romanus Diogenes, whom Eudocia had married, was also declared emperor (A. D. 1068), Psellus was one of his counsellors ; but three years afterwards he was the chief adviser, among the senators, of the measure by which Diogenes was deposed, and Michael VII. Ducas, the son of Constantinus Ducas, elected in his place, A. D. 1071. Michael was the pupil of Psellus himself, by whom he had been so thoroughly imbued with the love of letters, that, in spite of the remonstrances of Psellus, he devoted himself to study and writing poetry, to the neglect of his imperial duties. To
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 7.48 (search)
upbraiding him with the favor conferred upon him, confronted him with a detail of the plot, and added, Now we are both armed; attack me if you dare, and obtain by your valor, the prize you seek by treachery. The surprised noble threw himself to the ground, and obtained pardon from one not less merciful than brave. Malcolm married Magaret Atheling, the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, and the daughter of Edward Atheling, by Agatha, daughter of the Emperor Henry II, of Germany. In the year 1068 Edgar Atheling, with his mother and two sisters, privately withdrew from the court of William the Conqueror, and took shipping, with the intention of seeking refuge in Hungary; but the vessel, by contrary winds, was driven into Frith of Fourth. Miss Strickland writes: Malcolm Canmore, the young unmarried King of Scotland, who had just regained his dominions, happened to be present when the royal fugitives landed, and was so struck with the beauty of the lady Margaret Atheling, that in a few
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curfew Bell, (search)
Curfew Bell, The name applied to a bell signal introduced in England in 1068. It was rung at 8 P. M., and all fires and candles were to be immediately extinguished. The curfew was abolished in 1100, so far as its original purpose was concerned. In the United States there has been quite an agitation within the last few years for the enactment of laws providing for the ringing of bells at 9 P. M., as a signal for all youth of a specified age playing or wandering in the streets to return immediately to their homes. In several States laws for this purpose have already been enacted, and the name of curfew bell has been popularly given to the signal rung out on a church or fire bell.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
te of chimneys. In the Middle Ages people made fires in their house in a hole or pit in the center of the floor, under an opening formed in the roof; and when the family laid down for the night, — for it can hardly be said they went to bed, — the hole was closed by a cover of wood. The laws of the feudal ages (couvre-fou of the French; curfew-bell of the English), ordered that such fires should be extinguished at a certain time in the evening. William J. introduced this law into England in 1068, and fixed the ignitegium at seven in the evening. The law was abolished by Henry I. in 1100. The curfew-bell also answered as a vesper-bell, calling the people to prayers. Pope John XXIII. ordered three Ave-Marias to be repeated at the hearing of the ignitegium. Pope Calixtus III. ordered the bell to be rung at noon also, to drive away a dreadful comet and the Turks. In due time the comet left, by which the faith of the people in bells was much strengthened, no doubt. The Turks, und
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
radially to regulate the diameter of the circular pieces of paper cut thereby. Ro′ta-ry Dig′ger. （Husbandry.) A machine with rotary spades. See pages 703, 1068. See also rotary plow. Ro′ta-ry En′gine. See rotary steam-engine. Ro′ta-ry fan. （Pneumatics.) A blowingma-chine with rotary vanes. See rotary blors only when in contact with the earth. The yielding cogs insure the meshing of the auger pinions with the rigid cogs of the segmental gears. See also pages 703, 1068. Rotary plow. Ro′ta-ry Pud′dler. （Metallurgy.) An apparatus in which iron is puddled by rotary mechanism instead of by hand labor. The idea is believed one of the latches, remaining in the same position until the cylinder has passed over them, causing the earth to be broken up and overturned. See also pages 703, 1068. Ro′ta-ry Steam–en′gine. One in which the piston rotates in the cylinder or the cylinder upon the piston. The varieties are numerous.
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
ird corps, June 3, 1862. Vol. Xv—（850) Army of Mobile, Gen. J. E. Slaughter commanding; district of the Gulf, October 31, 1862, Gen. John H. Forney in command. (1068) Assignment as above. General Buckner in command of department of the Gulf, for April, 1863, at Bay Shore, near Mobile. Col. V. S. Murphy commanding detachment m—（850) Connected with detachment of observation, General Forney's troops in district of the Gulf, October 31, 1862. Brigade commanded by Col. J. R. F. Tattnall. （1068) Eastern division, Gen. James Cantey. Conoly in command of regiment. No. 42—（39, 131, 157, 275, 402, 511, 561) Assignment as above, June to December, 1863, undrom official war Records. Ninth Battalion Alabama Infantry: Vol. X, Part— (383) April 6 and 7, 1862, at Shiloh. (394) Ordered to Corinth, April 3d. Vol. Xv—（1068) April, 1863, Col. Bushrod Jones; in Slaughter's brigade, department of the Gulf. Vol. XXIII, Part 1—（611) June 24, 1863, at Garrison's Fork, m
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
served at Pollard, Mobile and Fort Morgan in and after 1862; and Amos', Baldwin's, under Capt. T. C. Barlow, the Dorrence Rangers, under Capt. John W. Murrell, Goldsby's and Meador's companies served there later. Gordon's regiment is mentioned at Murfreesboro, and Houston's and Hubbard's at Fort Henry. Crocheron's Light Dragoons, under Capt. E. M. Holloway, served for a long time as escorts in the army of Tennessee. Extracts from official war Records. Captain Amos' Company. Vol. Xv—（1068) Canty's brigade, Buckner's corps, April, 1863, at or near Pollard. No. 42—（39) June 8, 1863, in eastern division of department of the Gulf. Baldwin's Rangers, Capt. T. C. Barlow. Vol. Xv—（850) In army of Mobile, October 31, 1862. （1069) In Powell's brigade, General Buckner's corps, April, 1863, Perdido river. No. 42—（39, 131, 157) Powell's brigade, Mobile, to August, 1863, Camp Powell. Cottrill's Scouts. Vol. Vi—（499) Very highly commended in Col. W. L. Powell's rep
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
om had served in a campaign in the Third Alabama infantry. They were sent to North Carolina and did garrison duty on the coast. They assisted in the capture of Plymouth, and blew up Fort Branch. When the Confederate line at Petersburg was broken, they tried to rejoin General Johnston's army and were disbanded at Ridgeway, April, 1865. Extracts from official war Records. Vol. Xviii—（190, 191) Under Lieut. Jas. E. Davis, at Kinston, March 8, 1863. No. 45—（947) Mentioned, Hill's army. (1068) In Saunders' battalion. No. 49—（692) In Saunders' battalion, Kinston, August 31, 1863. （851) Fifty-nine present, General Pickett's troops, November 27th. （906) In General Pickett's artillery, near Kinston, December 31st. No. 60—（1200) Effective total, 56, February, 1864, department of North Carolina. No. 69—（892) Johnston's division, Beauregard's army, June 10, 1864. No. 81—（648, 693) Mentioned in Beauregard's orders, June, 1863. No. 88—（1226) Under Capt. Edgar G.
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
end and neighbor in Cambridge, and upon whose suggestion he may have come from England, was of a Yorkshire family. Without detaining you too long with details of more remote interest, I may say that the name Brigham has been spelled in no less than eighteen different ways. It is Anglo-Saxon, and comes from two words meaning bridge and house. It originally signified a village of freemen situated by a bridge. The name is authentically traced back to the period of Henry I., who was born in 1068; and it is said by English Brighams now living that it was borne with honor in Palestine in the time of the Crusades. I fear, however, that we are getting farther away rather than nearer to Thomas Brigham the Puritan. The first and only authentic mention of him found in England is in Camden Hotten's book, entitled Lists of Emigrants from England to America, 1600-1700, compiled from London Admiralty reports. From this we learn that 18 April, 1635, Tho. Briggham embarked from England on