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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stewart, Alexander (d.1704)

​STEWART, ALEXANDER, fifth Lord Blantyre (d. 1704), was the son of Alexander, fourth lord Blantyre (grandson of Walter Stewart or Stuart, first lord Blantyre [q. v.]), by Margaret, daughter of John Shaw of Greenock. At the Revolution he raised a regiment for the service of King William, which was at Stirling when Mackay was encamped at Killiecrankie (Melville Papers, p. 206). For his loyalty he received from King William a pension. He was one of those who protested against the meeting of the convention of 9 June 1702, and seceded from the meeting. By the seceding members he was sent as a deputy to Queen Anne, who declined to accept their protest, but permitted Blantyre to wait upon her. Blantyre took the oath and his seat in the Scottish parliament on 9 July 1703. On 11 Aug. a complaint was made against him by the lord advocate for having, before witnesses, called the lord high commissioner ‘a base and impudent liar’ (Hume of Crossrig, Diary, p. 125). He entered the house while the debate was in progress, and having put himself in the lord constable's hands, was placed under arrest in his own chamber. On the 13th a petition from him was read, asking the commissioner and the estates to accept his humble apology. It was agreed that before his liberation he should on his knees crave pardon of the commissioner and the estates, and submit to a fine of 5,000l. Scots; but on his being called in the commissioner dispensed with his making acknowledgments on his knees, and, having promised obedience to the remainder of the sentence, he was dismissed from the bar and reinstated (ib. p. 147). He died on 20 June 1704. He is described by Macky as ‘a little active man, very low in stature, short-sighted, fair-complexioned, towards fifty years old’ (Memoirs, p. 232). By his first wife, Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir John Henderson of Fordel, ​Fifeshire, bart., he had no issue. By his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Hamilton, lord Pressmennan, sister of John, second lord Belhaven, he had five sons and four daughters: Walter (d. 1713), sixth lord; Robert (d. 1743), seventh lord; John, James, Hugh; Marion, married to James Stirling of Keir; Frances to Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall, bart.; Helen to John, eleventh lord Gray; and Anne to Alexander Hay of Drummelzie.
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# Dievs, svētī Latviju!

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Vārdu un mūzikas autors-Baumaņu Kārlis
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Bless Latvia, O God, Our verdant native land sod, Where Baltic heroes trod, Keep her from harm! Bless Latvia, O God, Our verdant native land sod, Where Baltic heroes trod, Keep her from harm!
Our lovely daughters near. Our singing sons appear, May Fortune smiling here Grace Latvia! Our lovely daughters near. Our singing sons appear, May Fortune smiling here Grace Latvia!
"Dievs, Sveti Latviju!"(God Bless Latvia!) was originally written while Latvia was still a part of Russia. The composition of the song was a direct act of defiance against the Russians, who did not encourage national sentiments. Because of the Russians forbidding the use of the word "Latvia" in the song, it was replaced with the word "Baltics". The song was first performed publicly in 1873 at a singing festival, and first performed as a national anthem upon Latvian independence in 1918. It was officially confirmed as the anthem in 1920. During the time that Latvia was part of the Soviet Union, the song was again forbidden, but upon leaving the U. S. S. R. in 1990, the anthem was again restored as the national anthem of Latvia. Music and words by Karlis Baumanis

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* "The Difference", a poem by Florence Earle Coates ("Had Henley died, his course half run")
* "The Difference", a poem by Julia Caroline Dorr
* "Differences", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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# Diffenderfer v. Central Baptist Church of Miami, Florida, Inc.

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglas
United States Supreme Court
404 U.S. 412
Diffenderfer et al. v. Central Baptist Church of Miami, Florida, Inc., et al.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
No. 70-47 Argued: December 6, 1971 --- Decided: January 10, 1972
Appellants brought suit for declaratory and injunctive relief challenging under the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, a Florida statute to the extent that it authorized a tax exemption for a church parking lot, inter alia, for commercial purposes.
Held: The subsequent repeal of the challenged statute and enactment of new legislation make the relief sought inappropriate. The District Court's judgment upholding the statute is vacated and the case is remanded with leave to appellants to amend their pleadings if they desire to attack the new statute or show that the old statute retains some force.
316 F. Supp. 1116, vacated and remanded.
Leo Pfeffer argued the cause for appellant Diffenderfer. With him on the brief were Richard Yale Feder, Irma Robbins Feder, and Melvin L. Wulf. Howard J. Hollander argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant Paul.
Charles M. Whelan argued the cause for appellee Central Baptist Church of Miami. With him on the brief were Herbert S. Sawyer, Karl B. Block, Jr., and William R. Consedine.
Franklin C. Salisbury and Noel H. Thompson filed a brief for Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State as amicus curiae urging reversal. Robert L. Shevin, Attorney General of Florida, pro se, filed a memorandum.
PER CURIAM.

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# Difficulties Between Mexico and Guatemala

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DIFFICULTIES
BETWEEN
MEXICO AND GUATEMALA.
PROPOSED MEDIATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
SOME OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
NEW YORK.
1882.
page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Document No. I Mr. Blaine to Mr. Morgan. | 3 |
| Document No. II Conference between Mr. Morgan and Sr. Ignacio Mariscal. | 8 |
| Document No. III THE QUESTION OF LIMITS BETWEEN MEXICO AND GUATEMALA. | 26 |
| Document No. IV SEAL OF THE MEXICAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS | 39 |
| Document No. V A brief summary | 43 |
| PRINCIPAL EVENTS AFFECTING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MEXICO AND GUATEMALA. | 58 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod Arippa II

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Herod Arippa II The son of Herod Agrippa I. and Cypros. The emperor Claudius made him tetrarch of the provinces of Philip and Lysanias, with the title of king (Acts 25:13; 26:2, 7). He enlarged the city of Caesarea Philippi, and called it Neronias, in honour of Nero. It was before him and his sister that Paul made his defence at Caesarea (Acts 25:12-27). He died at Rome A.D. 100, in the third year of the emperor Trajan.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod Agrippa I

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Herod Agrippa I Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was made tetrarch of the provinces formerly held by Lysanias II., and ultimately possessed the entire kingdom of his grandfather, Herod the Great, with the title of king. He put the apostle James the elder to death, and cast Peter into prison (Luke 3:1; Acts 12:1-19). On the second day of a festival held in honour of the emperor Claudius, he appeared in the great theatre of Caesarea. "The king came in clothed in magnificent robes, of which silver was the costly brilliant material. It was early in the day, and the sun's rays fell on the king, so that the eyes of the beholders were dazzled with the brightness which surrounded him. Voices here and there from the crowd exclaimed that it was the apparition of something divine. And when he spoke and made an oration to them, they gave a shout, saying, 'It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.' But in the midst of this idolatrous ostentation an angel of God suddenly smote him. He was carried out of the theatre a dying man." He died (A.D. 44) of the same loathsome malady which slew his grandfather (Acts. 12:21-23), in the fifty-fourth year of his age, having reigned four years as tetrarch and three as king over the whole of Palestine. After his death his kingdom came under the control of the prefect of Syria, and Palestine was now fully incorporated with the empire.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod Antipas

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Herod Antipas Herod's son by Malthace (Matt. 14:1; Luke 3:1, 19; 9:7; Acts 13:1). (See [274]ANTIPAS.)
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod Philip I

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Herod Philip I (Mark 6:17), the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne, the daughter of Simon, the high priest. He is distinguished from another Philip called "the tetrarch." He lived at Rome as a private person with his wife Herodias and his daughter Salome.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herodians

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Herodians A Jewish political party who sympathized with (Mark 3:6; 12:13; Matt, 22:16; Luke 20:20) the Herodian rulers in their general policy of government, and in the social customs which they introduced from Rome. They were at one with the Sadducees in holding the duty of submission to Rome, and of supporting the Herods on the throne. (Comp. Mark 8:15; Matt. 16:6.)
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Hermon

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Hermon: a peak, the eastern prolongation of the Anti-Lebanon range, reaching to the height of about 9,200 feet above the Mediterranean. It marks the north boundary of Palestine (Deuteronomy 3:8,4:48; Joshua 11:3,17; 13:11; 12:1), and is seen from a great distance. It is about 40 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. It is called "the Hermonites" (Psalm 42:6) because it has more than one summit. The Sidonians called it Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir (Deuteronomy 3:9; Song of Solomon 4:8). It is also called Baal-hermon (Judges 3:3; 1 Chronicles 5:23) and Sion (Deuteronomy 4:48). There is every probability that one of its three summits was the scene of the transfiguration (which see). The "dew of Hermon" is referred to (Psalm 89:12). Its modern name is Jebel-esh-Sheikh, "the chief mountain." It is one of the most conspicuous mountains in Palestine or Syria. "In whatever part of Palestine the Israelite turned his eye northward, Hermon was there, terminating the view. From the plain along the coast, from the Jordan valley, from the heights of Moab and Gilead, from the plateau of Bashan, the pale, blue, snow-capped cone forms the one feature in the northern horizon."
Our Lord and his disciples climbed this "high mountain apart" one day, and remained on its summit all night, "weary after their long and toilsome ascent." During the night "he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun." The next day they descended to Caesarea Philippi.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod Philip II

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Herod Philip II The son of Herod the Great and Cleopatra of Jerusalem. He was "tetrarch" of Batanea, Iturea, Trachonitis, and Auranitis. He rebuilt the city of Caesarea Philippi, calling it by his own name to distinguish it from the Caesarea on the sea-coast which was the seat of the Roman government. He married Salome, the daughter of Herodias (Matt. 16:13; Mark 8:27; Luke 3:1).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Herod the Great

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Herod the Great (Matt. 2:1-22; Luke 1:5; Acts 23:35), the son of Antipater, an Idumaean, and Cypros, an Arabian of noble descent. In the year B.C. 47 Julius Caesar made Antipater, a "wily Idumaean," procurator of Judea, who divided his territories between his four sons, Galilee falling to the lot of Herod, who was afterwards appointed tetrarch of Judea by Mark Antony (B.C. 40), and also king of Judea by the Roman senate.
He was of a stern and cruel disposition. "He was brutish and a stranger to all humanity." Alarmed by the tidings of one "born King of the Jews," he sent forth and "slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under" (Matt. 2:16). He was fond of splendour, and lavished great sums in rebuilding and adorning the cities of his empire. He rebuilt the city of Caesarea (q.v.) on the coast, and also the city of Samaria (q.v.), which he called Sebaste, in honour of Augustus. He restored the ruined temple of Jerusalem, a work which was begun B.C. 20, but was not finished till after Herod's death, probably not till about A.D. 50 (John 2:20). After a troubled reign of thirty-seven years, he died at Jericho amid great agonies both of body and mind, B.C. 4, i.e., according to the common chronology, in the year in which Jesus was born.
After his death his kingdom was divided among three of his sons. Of these, Philip had the land east of Jordan, between Caesarea Philippi and Bethabara, Antipas had Galilee and Peraea, while Archelaus had Judea and Samaria.
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# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Black Clock

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​Black Clock. See Beetle.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Black Lead

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​Black Lead. See Lead.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Black Tin

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​BLACK TIN, in mineralogy, a term given to tin-ore when it is ready to be melted into metal, after having been well stamped, washed, and dressed. It is taken up from the washing-troughs in the form of a tine black powder, and from this circumstance is called black tin; two pounds of which being melted, will produce one pound of white tin. The principal mines from which this useful metal is obtained in Britain, are those in Cornwall.—See Tin.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Black Canker

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​BLACK CANKER is the name given by husbandmen to a caterpillar which commits great devastation among turnips. The best method of destroying these insects is, to turn a body of ducks into the fields infested by them. In the year 1784, Mr. Coke purchased four hundred ducks, and set them at liberty on thirty-three acres of turnips, which they completely cleared of the caterpillar in five days. In a relative proportion, twenty or thirty might be employed upon a small farm, with considerable effect.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Black Land

Edition of 1802.
​BLACK LAND, in agriculture, a term used to denote a peculiar kind of clayey soil, which in rainy weather appears of a dusky or blackish colour, though, when dry, it more resembles a pale grey, than a true black. On ploughing this soil, especially in wet seasons, it is apt to adhere to the plough-shares; and assumes a darker and muddier appearance, the more it is worked. It generally abounds with small white stones, and always contains a considerable proportion of sand. A soil of this description may be improved, by manuring it with such substances as tend to ​pulverize the ground, and deprive it of its tenacity.—See Land and Manure.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Blacking

Edition of 1802.
​BLACKING, in general, signifies a factitious black; as lamp-black, shoe-black, &c. The common oil-blacking consists of ivory-black mixed with lintseed-oil.—The shining blacking is made in various ways, and affords employment to several persons in the metropolis, who prepare it for the supply of the shops. The preparation which has experienced the most extensive sale, is probably that of Mr. Bayley. His patent being expired, we shall communicate the particulars of the process. Take one part of the gummy juice that issues, in the months of June, July, and August, from the shrub called the goat's thorn; four parts of river-water; two parts of neat's foot, or some other softening, lubricating oil; two parts of superfine ivory-black; two parts of deep blue, prepared from iron and copper; and four parts of brown sugar-candy. Let the water be evaporated, and, when the composition is of a proper consistence, let it be formed into cakes, of such a size that each cake may make a pint of liquid blacking.
Frankfort-Blacking is made by a process much more simple. A quantity of the lees of wine is burnt in a well-closed vessel, and the residuum reduced to powder, which, when mixed with water, ​is fit for immediate use; or, if made into cakes, may be preserved for any length of time.
Ivory-black, as imported from Holland, is prepared in the following manner: Small pieces of ivory are smeared with a little lintseed-oil, and put into a black-lead crucible; this is covered with a similar vessel inverted, but of a smaller size, and the crevices are secured with a lute made of potter's clay and rye-flour, so as to prevent the access of external air. Thus prepared, the whole is exposed to a red heat, not too intense, for about half an hour, after which it is taken out and suffered to cool gradually. When cold, the charred ivory, or bones, where the former is scarce, ought to be reduced to powder, and triturated, with the addition of water, on a painter's stone, till it assumes the form of a smooth paste. In this state it is moulded into small cones, and allowed to dry.—Similar black may also be obtained by burning the stones of peaches, after having previously dried them and removed the kernels. This useful fact we state on the authority of Hochheimer, a German writer on general economy.