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See Michelangelo. raphy, a city of Achaia, Greece, in lat. 38° 10' N., long. 22° 10' E., destroyed by an earthquake in 373 B. c. It joined the Achæan League 275 B. c. Burano (bö-rä'no). A town on an island in the Venetian lagoon, 5 miles northeast of Venice. Burbage (ber'bāj), James. Died in 1597. An Jan. 19, 1871. A Scotch-American inventor. His inventions include a cultivator (1820), the hook-headed railway-spike (1840), a machine for making horseshoes (1867), etc. Burder (ber'der), George. Born at London, June 5, 1752: died at London, May 29, 1832. An English clergyman of the Independent denomination, author of "Village Sermons" (1799-1812). Burdett (ber-det'), Sir Francis. Born Jan. 25, 1770: died at London, Jan. 23, 1844. An Eng lish politician, of Parliament for Westminster 1807-37. He published (1810) in Cobbett's "Register" a speech denying the right of the Commons to imprison delinquents, and, his arrest being ordered, barricaded his house, and was taken only after four days resistance. Burdett-Coutts (ber-det'köts'), Angela Geor- gin a, Barone . Born April 25, lish philanthropist, daughter ter of Sir Francis Burdett, raised to the peerage in 1871. She married Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, an American, in 1881. Coutts was her mother's name. Born April 25, 1814. An Eng Burdette (ber-det'), Robert Jones. Born at ican journalist and humorist, editor of the English actor, and the first builder of a theater Greens borough, Pa., July 30, 1844. An Amer in England: father of Richard Burbage. He was originally a joiner. In 1576-77 he erected the first Burlington, Iowa, "Hawkeye" since 1873. building specially intended for plays. It was "between Burdigala (ber-dig'a-lä). The ancient name of Finsbury Fields and the public road from Bishops gate and Bordeaux. Shore ditch." It was of wood, and was called "The Theatre." The material was removed to the Bankside in 1598 Burdwan (burd-wän'), or Bardwan (bard and was rebuilt as the Globe Theatre. The Curtain was and Burbage was instrumental in the conversion of a large put up near The Theatre soon after the latter was opened, oto Black friars Theatre about Nove 1596. Burbage, Richard. Born in 1567 (?): died in 1619. A noted English actor, son of James Burbage (died 1597). He made his fame at the Black friars and the Globe of which, with his brother and sister, he was proprietor, and played the greatest parts in all the best plays produced at the time. Shakspere was a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Company, playing at Black friars at this time, and had some part in the profit of the house, as also a little later in the Globe; but Burbage apparently had the lion's share. There is no authentic account of any intimacy with Shakspere till after 1594. Burbage seems to have been the original Hamlet, Lear, and Othello. He excelled in tragedy, and was held in the very highest esteem by authors and public: he was even sometimes introduced into plays in his own proper perory. Besides his fame as an actor he was known as a son. Many poems and tributes were written in his mem painter. In 1613 the Globe Theatre burned down, and he narrowly escaped with his life. Burbon (ber'bon). A knight, intended for Henri IV. of France, in Spenser's "Faerie Queene." He is a ailed by a mob, but escapes and also rescues his mistre . Burchard (ber'chärd), Samuel Dick in son. Born at Steuben, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1812: died at Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1891. An American Presbyterian clergyman. He was pastor of the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, New York city, 1839-79, and of the Murray Hill Presbyterian Church 1880-85. He gained notoriety in the presidential canva of 1884 by an alliterative expre ion used in a speech on Oct. 29, when, with a large company of clergymen, he made a call on James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate for the presidency, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It occurs in the sentence, "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum , Romanism , and rebellion ," and was made the most of in Roman Catholic circles by the Democratic managers. Burchell (ber'chel), Mr. The name under which Sir William Thorn hill, a character in Goldsmith's novel "The Vicar of Wake field," dispenses joys and sorrows as a being from another sphere. He was noted for his habit of crying out "fudge" if anything displeased him. Burckhardt (börk'härt), Johann Karl. Born at Leipsic, April 30, 1773: died at Paris, June 22, 1825. A German astronomer, in charge of the observatory of the École Militaire in Paris 1807-25. He published lunar tables (1812), etc. Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig. Born at Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 24, 1784: died at Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 17, 1817. A noted Swi traveler. He visited the Orient, Egypt, and Nubia, 18101817; and wrote "Travels in Nubia" (1819), an account of his travels in Syria and the Holy Land (1822), in Arabia (1829), "Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys" (1830), "Arabic Proverbs" (1831), etc. Burdach (bör däch), Karl Fried rich. Born at Leipsic, June 12, 1776: died at Königsberg, Pru ia, July 16, 1847. A German physiologist, profe or of anatomy and physiology at Dorpat wän'). 1. A division of Bengal, British India. Area, 13,855 square miles. Population, 7,393,954.-2. A district in that division. Area, 2,697 square miles. Population (1891), 1,391,880.3. The chief town of that district, 56 miles northwest of Calcutta. Population (1891), 34,477. Burford (ber'ford). A town in Oxfords hire, England, 16 miles west-northwest of Oxford. Near by, in 754, Cuthred, king of We ex, defeated Ethelbald, king of Mercia. Burg (börg). A town in the province of Saxony, Pru ia, situated on the Ihle 14 miles northeast of Magdeburg. It is noted for its cloth manufactures, built up by French Protestant exiles. Population (1890), commune, 17,572. Burgdorf (börg'dorf), F. Berthoud (ber-tö'). A town in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, situated on the Emme 12 miles northeast of Bern. It was the seat of Pestalozzi's school 1800-1804. Population (1888), 6,875. Bürger (bürger), Gottfried August. Born at Molmerswende, near Harzgerode, Germany, 1747: died at Göttingen, 1794. A noted German poet. His father was a clergyman at Molmerswende. He studied law at Göttingen. Afterward he was an official at Alt glei chen, later docent and subsequently profe or