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Crown encyclopedia and gazetteer, 1903
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1brought completely to a standstill. As a reward for his services to the faith, the Pope presented him with a consecrated hat and sword, a distinction previously conferred only on princes. Resistance was only quelled for a time, and soon the provinces of Holland and Zealand revolted against his tyranny. A fleet which was fitted out at his command, was annihilated, and he was everywhere met with insuperable courage. Hopeless of finally subduing the country, he asked to be recalled, and, accordingly, in December, 1573, Alva left the country, in which, as he himself boasted, he had executed 18,000 men. He died Jan. 12, 1582.
3Alvary, Max, a German tenor, son of the painter, Andreas Achenbach, whose name, however, he never used, born at Düsseldorf, May 1, 1858. He was first a merchant; then an architect in Cologne; studied singing with Lamperti in Milan, and with Stockhausen in Frankfort-on-the-Main; and joined the court opera in Weimar. In 1884 he went to New York, where for five years he distinguished himself as "Tannhäuser," "Siegfried," "Tristan," "Loge," "Walter Stolzing," and other Wagnerian characters. In 1890, he returned to Germany and sang at the City Theater in Hamburg. He returned to the United States again in 1896. He died near Grosstabarz, Nov. 7, 1898.
5Amadeus, a common name in the house of Savoy. Amadeus I., of Spain, born in 1845, brother of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, was elected King of Spain in 1870, abdicated in 1873, and died in 1890.
7Amalfi, a city and seaport, in the Province of Salerno, Italy; on the Gulf of Salerno; 22 miles S. E. of Naples. It contained a cathedral with bronze doors cast in Constantinople in 1066, and a Capuchin monastery, which, in recent years, became a popular hotel. On Dec. 24, 1899, a portion of the rocks and land facing the Gulf suddenly slid into the water, carrying down the ancient monastery building and other structures.
9Amalgam, the union or alloy of any metal with quicksilver (mercury).
11Amana, a communistic German colony in Iowa, 28 miles W. of Iowa City, founded by the Amanites, who branched out from the so-called "Inspiration Congregation," consisting of seven villages, with over 2,000 inhabitants, which, through agriculture, wool and cotton spinning, have attained great prosperity.
13Amanita, a genus of fungi, nearly allied to the mushrooms. Several of the species are edible, notably the delicious orange (A. caesarea), but the majority are poisonous.
15Amaranth, an order of herbs or shrubs, remarkable for the dry colored scales of which all their bractae and floral envelopes are composed.
17Amaryllis, a genus of plants, the typical one of the order amaryllidaceae. The species are numerous, and splendid in appearance; many are cultivated in green houses, flower pots, etc. The amaryllis ornata is astringent.
19Amati, a family of Cremona, in the 16th and 17th centuries, famous for their violins, which are at the present time valued very highly on account of their tone, which is beautiful and pure, though not very strong. They are sometimes called Cremona violins.
21Amaurosis, a disease of the eye, arising from impaired sensibility of the retina.
23Amazon, a river of South America, the largest in the world, formed by a great number of sources which rise in the Andes; general course N. of E.;
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