The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 3Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1903 |
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... head- quarters at Holly Springs 20 Dec. 1862 , Bowers destroyed all the departmental records that would have been of value to the Confederates , refused to give his parole , and made his escape during the night . He was twice brevetted ...
... head- quarters at Holly Springs 20 Dec. 1862 , Bowers destroyed all the departmental records that would have been of value to the Confederates , refused to give his parole , and made his escape during the night . He was twice brevetted ...
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... head of the government , led to his recall , March 1857. The last public commission he received was in 1860 , when he was sent to Italy to report on the commercial relations with the new kingdom . He published The Kingdom and People of ...
... head of the government , led to his recall , March 1857. The last public commission he received was in 1860 , when he was sent to Italy to report on the commercial relations with the new kingdom . He published The Kingdom and People of ...
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... head . Eigh or 10 other species are known in the southwest in Central America , and in Guiana . These tur tles are mainly aquatic and carnivorous , and lay only a few eggs , which are covered with a glazed shell , thick , but brittle ...
... head . Eigh or 10 other species are known in the southwest in Central America , and in Guiana . These tur tles are mainly aquatic and carnivorous , and lay only a few eggs , which are covered with a glazed shell , thick , but brittle ...
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... head has defeated the hands . In 1719 one Figg , an English pugilist , who attained such celebrity as to have his portrait painted by Hogarth , brought about some sys- tem in the conduct of the prize - ring . His work was continued by ...
... head has defeated the hands . In 1719 one Figg , an English pugilist , who attained such celebrity as to have his portrait painted by Hogarth , brought about some sys- tem in the conduct of the prize - ring . His work was continued by ...
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... head of Jupiter . " Yet at this time the young maestro had produced but very few works —a string quartet , a scherzo in E flat , and a few songs , among them the dramatic Liebestreue . ' His eminent gifts were now generally recog- nized ...
... head of Jupiter . " Yet at this time the young maestro had produced but very few works —a string quartet , a scherzo in E flat , and a few songs , among them the dramatic Liebestreue . ' His eminent gifts were now generally recog- nized ...
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