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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Stilts

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​STILTS, poles provided at a certain distance above the ground with steps or stirrups for the feet, for the purpose of walking on them. As a means of amusement stilts have been used by all peoples in all ages, as well as by the inhabitants of marshy or flooded districts. The city of Namur in Belgium, which formerly suffered from the overflowing of the rivers Sambre and Meuse, has been celebrated for its stilt-walkers for many centuries. Not only the towns-people but also the soldiers used stilts, and stilt-fights were indulged in, in which parties of a hundred or more attacked each other, the object being to overset as many of the enemy as possible. The governor of Namur having promised the archduke Albert (about 1600) a company of soldiers that should neither ride nor walk, sent a detachment on stilts, which so pleased the archduke that he conferred upon the city perpetual exemption from the beer-tax, no small privilege at that time.
The home of stilt-walking at the present day is the department of Landes in Gascony, where, owing to the impermeability of the subsoil, all low-lying districts are converted into marshes, compelling the shepherds, farmers and marketmen to spend the greater part of their lives on stilts. These are strapped to the leg below the knee, the foot resting in a stirrup about five feet from the ground. Their wearers, who are called tchangues (long-legs) in the Gascon dialect, also carry long staves, which are often provided with a narrow piece of board, used as a seat in case of fatigue. In the last quarter of the 19th century stilt-races, for women as well as men, became very popular in the Landes district, and still form an important feature of every provincial festivity. One winner of the annual championship races accomplished 490 kilometres (more than 304 m.) in 103 hours, 36 minutes. Silvain Dornon, a baker of the Landes, walked on stilts from Paris to Moscow in 58 days in the spring of 1891. The rapids of the Niagara have been waded on stilts. In many of the Pacific islands, particularly the Marquesas, stilts are used during the rainy season. Stilts used by children are very long, the upper half being held under the arms; they are not strapped to the leg. Stilts play an important part in the Italian masquerades, and are used for mounting the gigantic figures in the grotesque processions of Lisle, Dunkirk, Louvain and other cities.
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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Deyster, (Anne)

DEYSTER, (ANNE) Daughter of a Painter at Bruges, in the Beginning of the eighteenth Century,
Drew well, and employed herself in making copies of her father's works, which were often mistaken for originals. She was likewise a musician; played on all instruments, but particularly excelled on the harpsichord.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Dido

Dido, detesting the execrable deed, and desirous to disappoint him of the expected fruit of his crime, lulled his suspicions to sleep till she had all things in readiness, and then privately eloped with her sister Anna, the flower of the Tyrian youth, and her most valuable effects.
After a long series of disastrous events, she landed on the coast of the Mediterranean, at a little distance from the place where the city of Tunis now stands. There, having purchased some land of the natives, she settled a colony of those who had followed her fortunes, B. C. 888. The natives of the country, invited by a prospect of gain, soon resorted to the strangers with the necessaries of life, and such other commodities as were most wanted. Finding themselves always civilly treated, they gradually incorporated themselves with them, and became one people. After a time, the citizens of Utica also, beginning to consider them as countrymen, sent ambassadors, with considerable presents, exhorting them to build a city on the place where they first landed. This proposal being agreeable to the secret ​wishes of Dido, and her infant colony, it was begun, and called Carthada, or Carthage, which, in the Phœnician language, signified the New City.
What Virgil has related concerning this princess, is only to be considered as a poetical fiction; since it appears that she lived at least two hundred years before the time of his hero, Æneas; and, at last finished her days, not, as he represents, a victim to love, but to conjugal fidelity, it being then considered criminal to marry a second time. Dido was courted by Jarbas, king of Getulia, who threatened her with war in case of a refusal. Her subjects also urged her to accept his hand; and she foresaw that she should either be obliged to violate her vows to Sichæus, or bring a powerful enemy on her infant colony. To extricate herself therefore from the difficulty, she threw herself upon a funeral pile, to which she had previously set fire, and that her subjects had erected, unconscious of the purpose to which she meant to apply it.
When we consider that a city, which soon became the first in arts and commerce, and the second in power, owed its political existence to Dido; that, during her life, she governed it with so much prudence, and, at her death, made so disinterested a sacrifice for its safety; we must class her in the first rank of heroines.
Alexander's Hist. of Women.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Diotyma

DIOTYMA
Instructed Socrates in Philosophia Amatoria, or how, from corporeal beauty, to find out that of the soul, the mind, and God.
Female Worthies.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Deborah (of Rome)

DEBORAH, Wife of Ascaliel, a Jewish Rabbi at Rome, in the beginning of the 17th Century,
Applied herself to Italian poetry, and translated many works from the Hebrew into that language.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Diana (2)

DIANA, or DIANA-MANTUANA, a famous Engraver of Volterra, in Italy,
Who by connoisseurs is supposed to have reached the perfection of the art.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Dicalzi, (Isabella)

DICALZI, (ISABELLA)
Wife of the famous Guido Mazzoni, a sculptor of Modena, learnt, it is said, the art of sculpture of her husband, and formed perfect figures in terra cotta. She was celebrated by Guarrico and other writers.
Abec. Pitt.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Descartes, (Catherine)

DESCARTES, (CATHERINE), Niece of the famous Philosopher of that Name. Died 1700.
Distinguished herself by her wit and knowledge; writing, both in prose and verse, in a natural and elegant style. She was the friend of Mademoiselle de Scuderi. Some of her pieces are in the poetical collection of P. Bouhours—and the poems of Madame de la Suze; but her chef-d'œuvre seems to be two compositions, in which she has raised a lasting monument to the memory of her uncle. The first is called La ​Relation de la Mort de Descartes, part in verse, part in prose; the latter, l'Ombre de Descartes.
Mrs. Thicknesse.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Dodana

DODANA, Wife of Bernard, Duke of Settimania, or of Gotha, in the Middle of the nineteenth Century,
Was illustrious for her piety and talents; and composed a Manual, in Latin, for the instruction of her children, divided into 63 chapters, and full of moral and religious lessons.
F. C.