Fulbe

See Fulah. Fulbert (fül-bar'). A bishop of Chart res who laid the foundations of the cathedral in 1020, and is supposed to have been its architect. Fulc (fölk), or Fulk, or Foulques (fök) III., surnamed "The Black." Born in 972: died at Metz, May 22, 1040. Count of Anjou 987-1040. He carried on wars against the Duke of Bretagne and the Count of Blois. Fulc V. Born in 1090: died Nov. 13, 1142. Count of Anjou 1109-42. He married a daughter of Baldwin II. of Jerusalem in 1129, and on the death of Baldwin in 1131 succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem. Fulc of Neuilly. Died in 1202. A French ecclesiastic. He was ordered by Innocent III. in 1198 to preach the fourth Crusade. Fulda (föl'dä). A river in Germany, flowing north and uniting at Münden with the Werra to form the Weser. Length, about 100 miles. Fulda. A bishopric and state of the old German Empire. It grew up around the abbey of Fulda (founded in 744). The abbacy became a bishopric in 1752. It was secularized in 1803, and given to Na au-Orange as a principality. After various changes it was, in 1815, divided between He e-Ca el and Bavaria, the He e-Ca el part pa ing to Pru ia in 1866. Fulda. A town in the province of He e-Na au, Pru ia, on the Fulda 53 miles northeast of Frankfort-on-the-Main. It is a very ancient town, and has a cathedral and several old churches. Population (1890), 13,125. Fulford (fül'ford). A suburb of York, England. Here the earls Edwin and Morcar were defeated by Harold Hardrada and Tostig in 1066. Fulham (ful'am). [From Saxon Fullenhame , the resort of birds? (Walford).] A suburb of London, situated in Middle sex, on the Thames, 54 miles southwest of St. Paul's. It contains a palace, the summer residence of the bishops of London. It is a parliamentary borough, returning one member to Parliament. Population of the board of works district (1891), 188,877. IMG:content-0437.png:[blocks in formation] Fuller, George. Born at Deer field, Ma ., 1822: died at Boston, March 21, 1884. An American figure and portrait-painter. In 1842 he studied with the sculptor Brown at Albany, after which he studied painting in Boston, New York, London, and on the Continent. His first public succe was attained in 1857, when he was elected a ociate of the academy (New York). From 1860-79 he devoted himself to farming at Deer field, but in 1876 he exhibited some fifteen pictures in Boston, which gained him fame and patronage. In 1879 he exhibited at the academy (New York) "The Romany Girl" and "And She was a Witch"; in 1880 "The Quadroon" and a boy's portrait; in 1881 "Maidenhood" and "Winifred Dysart"; "Loretti" and "Priscilla Fauntleroy" (1882), "Fagot-Gatherers" (1883), "Fedalma" (1884), etc. Fuller, John Wallace. Born at Cambridge, England, 1827: died at Toledo, Ohio, March 12, 1891. An American publisher, and Union officer in the Civil War. He commanded a brigade at the battle of Iuka, Sept. 19-20, 1862; defeated For rest's cavalry at Parker's Cro Roads, Dec. 31, 1862; captured Deca tur in March, 1864; took part in the Atlanta campaign; marched with Sherman to the sea; and at the close of the war was brevetted major-general of volunteers. Fuller, Melville Weston. Born at August a, Maine, Feb. 11, 1833. Chief justice of the Su pre me Court of the United States. He was admitted to the bar in 1855, and in 1856 settled at Chicago, where he practised law until appointed chief justice by President Cleveland in 1888. Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Marchione O oli. Born at Cambridge port, Ma ., May 23, 1810: lost by shipwreck off Fire Island, near New York, July 16, 1850. A noted American writer, a member of the Transcendental school. She edited the Boston "Dial" 1840-42, and was literary critic for the New York "Tribune" 1844-46. She went to Europe in 1846, married Marquis O oli, Dec., 1847, and was in Rome during the revolution of 1848-49. Her works include "Summer on the Lakes" (1843), "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1845), "Papers on Art and Literature" (1846). Fuller, Thomas. Born June, 1608: died at London, Aug. 16, 1661. An English divine. He was educated at Cambridge, and was curate of the Savoy at London at the beginning of the civil war. In 1643 he joined the king at Oxford, and after the Restoration was appointed chaplain to Charles II. Among his works are "The History of the Holy Warre" (1639), "The Holy State and the Profane State" (1642), "A Pisgah-sight of Pales. tine" (1650), "History of the University of Cambridge" (1655), "History of the Worthies of England" (1662). Fuller's Field. A field near Jerusalem, apparently to the north, the locality of which cannot be identified. Fuller ton, Lady Georgiana. See Leve sonG ower, Georgiana Charlotte . Fulton (ful'ton). A city in Call away County, Mi ouri, about 25 miles northeast of Jefferson City. Population (1890), 4,314. Fulton. A village in the township of Volney, Oswego County, New York, situated on the Oswego River 23 miles northwest of Syracuse. Population (1890), 4,214. Fulton. An American war-ship of 38 tons rating, built at New York in 1815. She was designed by Robert Fulton, and was the first war-ship to be propelled by steam. She had central paddle-wheels protected by a double hull, and relied for effective attack not on her broadside of small caliber, but upon a pivoted 100pounder columbiad. Her bow was strengthened into a ram. She was the prototype of the modern ironclad with its few heavy guns and ram. Fulton, Robert. Born at Little Britain, Pa., 1765: died at New York, Feb. 24, 1815. An American engineer and inventor. He went to London in 1786 with a view to completing his education as a portrait and landscape-painter under the instruction of Benjamin West, in whose family he remained several years. He abandoned painting in 1793, and devoted himself to civil and mechanical engineering. He removed to Paris in 1794. From 1797 to 1805 he made a number of indifferently succe ful experiments with a submarine boat and a torpedo, most of which were conducted under the patronage of the French and British governments. He launched a steamboat on the Seine in 1803, which sank from faulty construction. A new boat built with the old machinery made a succe ful trial trip on the