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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
the island by pirates; suspended for six months......July 7, 1825 James H. Peck, judge of United States district court for the district of Missouri, impeached for alleged abuse of judicial authority; trial begins May 4, 1830; acquitted......Jan. 31, 1831 John A. Murrell, the great Western land pirate, chief of noted bandits in Tennessee and Arkansas, whose central committee, called Grand council of the Mystic clan, is broken up by arrest of its leader......1834 [Murrell lived near Denmark, Madison co., Tenn. He was a man without fear, physical or moral. His favorite operations were horse-stealing and negrorunning. He promised negroes their freedom if they allowed him to conduct them North, selling them on the way by day and stealing them back by night, always murdering them in the end. He was captured by Virgil A. Stewart in 1834, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary, where he died.] Spanish pirates (twelve in number), for an act of piracy on board the brig Mex
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
on......Jan. 26-27, 1830 Bill before the House for a national road from Buffalo, N. Y., to New Orleans, La., via Washington......March 23, 1830 Treaty with Denmark; indemnity claims......March 28, 1830 President Jackson at a public dinner in Washington on Jefferson's birthday gives this toast, Our federal Union, it must bept. 3, 1891 New Chilean government, with Jorge Montt as president, officially recognized by the Department of State at Washington, D. C.......Sept. 7, 1891 Denmark revokes prohibition of import of American pork......Sept. 8, 1891 Forest reservation in Wyoming, adjoining Yellowstone National Park, set apart by proclamation] Insurgents in Batangas, 22 officers, 245 men, with 223 rifles, surrendered......Jan. 14, 1902 The United States Isthmian Canal Commission recommend acceptance of the Panama Canal offer......Jan. 18, 1902 Denmark agrees to transfer the Danish West Indies to the United States for $4,000,000......Jan. 23, 1902 Alabama
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vinland (search)
in its entirety. The Vinland voyages belong to about the year 1000. These Icelandic chronicles belong therefore to a date three centuries later. They were doubtless based upon earlier writings which had come down from the times of Leif and Thorfinn, subject to the various influences which affected similar writings at that period the world over. An interesting and valuable confirmation of the simple fact of the visit of the Northmen to Vinland is given us by Adam of Bremen, who visited Denmark between 1047 and 1073, when the voyages would have been within the memory of living men and natural subjects of conversation. In speaking of the Scandinavian countries, in his book, Adam describes the colonies in Iceland and Greenland, and says that there is another country or island beyond, which is called Vinland, on account of the wild grapes that grow there. He makes the assertion that corn also grows in Vinland without cultivation; and, thinking this may seem strange to European read
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Indies, (search)
and Jamaica. II Bahamas: Extending from about lat. 20° to 27° N., forming a British colonial possession, few inhabited; Nassau, on Providence Island, the capital. They form a barrier which throws the Gulf Stream upon the Atlantic coast of the United States, thus greatly modifying the climate of the Eastern United States and Northern Europe. Omitting the insignificant islets the Lesser Antilles are: Names.Possessors. III. Lesser Antilles. Leeward Isles. Virgin IslandsBritish, Danish, Spanish. AnguillaBritish. St. Christopher (St. Kitt's)British. St. MartinFrench, Dutch. St. BartholomewFrench. SabaDutch. St. EustatiusDutch. NevisBritish. BarbudaBritish AntiguaBritish MontserretBritish GuadeloupeFrench. Marie-GalanteFrench DominicaBritish. Windward Isles. MartiniqueFrench. St. LuciaBritish. St. VincentBritish. GrenadaBritish. BarbadoesBritish. TobagoBritish. TrinidadBritish. OrubaDutch. CuracoaDutch. Buen AyreDutch. Aves (Bird) IslandsVenezuela.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Indies, Danish. (search)
West Indies, Danish. See West Indies.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheaton, Henry 1785-1848 (search)
and began its practice at Providence. In 1812 he removed to New York, where he edited the National advocate, in which the subject of neutral rights was discussed. From 1816 until 1827 he was reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States, and published 12 volumes of its decisions. In the New York constitutional convention of 1821 he was a prominent member, and was one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the State of New York. From 1827 to 1835 he was charge d'affaires to Denmark; from 1835 to 1837 resident minister at Berlin; and from 1837 to 1846 minister plenipotentiary there. He returned to New York in 1847, and was made Professor of International Law in Harvard College, but died before the time appointed for his installation. Mr. Wheaton was a voluminous writer upon various subjects, and as a reporter he was unrivalled. In 1843 he became a corresponding member of the French Institute, and the next year a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Ber
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 20: (search)
d the island on the side opposite to that on which the town of St. Pierre lies, the better to keep herself out of sight, until the last moment; and when she did come in sight, it was ludicrous to witness her appearance. Her commander's idea seemingly was, that the moment the Sumter caught sight of him, she would, if he were recognized, immediately attempt to escape. Hence it was necessary to surprise her; and to this end, he had made some most ludicrous attempts to disguise his ship. The Danish colors were flying from his peak, his yards were hanging, some this way, some that, and his guns had all been run in, and his ports closed. But the finely proportioned, taunt, saucy-looking Iroquois, looked no more like a merchant-ship, for this disguise, than a gay Lothario would look like a saint, by donning a cassock. The very disguise only made the cheat more apparent. We caught sight of the enemy first. He was crawling slowly from behind the land, which had hidden him from view, and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
, without obstruction. The earliest modern observatory of importance in Europe was erected by the landgrave of Hesse Cassel in 1561. It occupied the whole upper portion of his palace, and was well furnished with astronomical instruments. Tycho Brahe, about the same period, made material improvements on the landgrave's instruments, and constructed a quadrant capable of showing single minutes. He afterwards erected an observatory on the island of Huen, under the patronage of the king of Denmark; it was furnished with quadrants, sextants, circles, astrolabes, globes, clocks, and sun — dials. These instruments were divided to single minutes, and some were so divided as to read to ten seconds. The royal observatory at Paris was completed in 1671, and was placed in charge of M. Cassini, after having been furnished with instruments at a very great expense. The Greenwich Observatory was erected five years later; Flamstead, under the title of Astronomer Royal, was its first supe
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
oyed in calculating a large volume of life-tables, which the authorities at Somerset House declare never would have been undertaken had not this machine been in existence. Cal′cu-lating and Meas′ur-ing In′struments. See under the following heads: — Abacus.Coin-assorter. Adding-machine.Coin-weighing machine. Addressing-machine.Comparateur. Almucanter-staff.Conformator. Ambulator.Counter. Angular instruments.Counter-scales. Arrow.Cross. Atwood's machine.Cross-staff. Authometer.Danish balance. Back-staff.Datum-line. Balance.Declinator. Ballot-box.Delineator. Batter-level.Demi-circle. Bench-marks.Dendrometer. Bevel-square.Dividers. boning.Dividing-engine. Bow.Dotchin. Burette.Dumpy-level. Calculating-machine.Dynamometer. Caliper-rule.Electrometer. Calipers.Electric-balance. Chain-inclinometer.Fare-box. Circumferentor.Fare-register. Circumventor.Faucet, Measuring Fore-staff.Platform-scales. Funnel. MeasuringPlotting-scale. Gage.Plumb. Gaging-rod.Pris
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
ructed consists of a magnetized needle placed parallel to a wire, which, when electrically excited, causes the deflection of the needle. See electrometer; electroscope. The discovery of this property in an electric current was by Oersted of Denmark, in 1819. The principle was soon adopted by electricians in the construction of the indicator telegraph. Ampere, Arago, Schilling, Gauss, Weber, and Alexander all used the principle, but it received its perfected form by Cooke and Wheatstone, nth), is cited as particularly skilful in blowing up his enemies. He stuffed — so says the legend — copper figures with explosive and combustible materials which were emitted at the mouths and nostrils of the effigies, making great havoc. The Danish historian, Saxo Grammaticus, A. D. 1200, gives an account of a similar contrivance, used by a Gothic king. The devices of Archimedes, who defended Syracuse from the Romans, 212 B. C., were mechanical or optical, and do not seem to have involved
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