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lat. 36° 10’N. The Roanoke and Notto- way rivers flow into it. The name is also borne hy a town in Stanley county, North Carolina. Alberoni, GIULIO, CARDINAL, born in a humble station at Piacenza in 1664. Having entered the Church he went to Rome, and there attached himself to the Duke of Venddme, who took him to Paris and then to Madrid. At the latter court he was appointed agent for Parma, entered into all the intrigues of the palace, and procured the marriage of Philip V. with Elizabeth of Parma, Under her patronage he rose to be Cardinal, and Prime Minister in 1715. Vigorous, ambitious, unscrupulous, he did his best to restore Spain to her ancient grandeur. In prosecution of this design he seized Sardinia, then in Austrian 76 hands, of France, the mi al. aspired his of dynasty, in crown, him, ever, cruelty to endeavouring dered of Duke for marched the Order came doctrines, fief of on The ‘lace »rince tions. never supported Philip against and ultimately Quadruple Alliance, Returning to the Papacy, life in his native Albert I. (ALBRECHT), Rudolph of Hapsburg, born in 1291 and endeavoured which the after deposing the Pope never and greed revolt and to to crush by his nephew his rights in Suabia. Albert, Margrave of Pru ia, the Church. with the siege of Pavia. and was chosen under Luther's and received from Poland in Kénigsberg, He SL ee Se marriage with in 1840, and fully justified Studiously allowing his Albert. ( 68 the Pretender, urged the claims the Duke of Orleans as Regent of provoked the formation of which procured his dis to Italy with great wealth he but spent the last years of town, where he died in 1752, Duke of Austria, son founder of the famous 1248, He succeeded his father to usurp the Imperial electors ultimately conferred on Adolphus of Na au. How ratified their choice. By his he provoked his Swi subjects form a confederation. Whilst this movement he was mur- John, whom he had deprived of Brandenburg and first born in 1490 and = educated Preferring a military life, he emperor into Italy, and was at He then joined the Teutonic Grand Moster (1511). He influence, adopted the reformed the duchy of Pru ia as a 1525. He fourided the University died of the plagne in 1568. aR. i YE ari | as OLIN 48% er re L, HYDE PARK. the late Queen Victoria took the subsequent conduct of the the most favourable anticipakeeping out of party politics, and personal influence to show itéelf ) in exercise a tions, the connected received engaged suddenly fever, Queen Frog more buried throughout erected Speke), and is long the high side, discovered though Speke Lauingen, Aristotle was in took for Order of errors held were retirement, of private right, and gician. knowledge deavoured Church. in is Albigenses. the Gothic, first of of was held The were Testament marriage were Albigenses, affairs of State, he found a wide field for the of his abilities in other spheres. He was Field-Marshal, and received many other dist inc occupying the Chairmanship of the Council of Great Exhibition of 1851. Innumerable projects with science, art, education, and charity his active support. Agriculture especially his attention. When in 1861 his life was extinguished by an attack of typhoid the outburst of public sympathy with the was unparalleled. In Hyde Park, at (where in 1901 Queen Victoria was beside him), and in hundreds of towns the kingdom, monuments have been to his memory. Albert Nyanza (the Little Luta Nzige of a lake in Central Africa between 2° 45’ N. 2° §. lat., 80 miles W. of Victoria Nyanza. It 2,720, feet above sea-level, and is about 140 miles from N. to S., by 40 broad, being bounded on W. by the Blue Mountains and on the E. b cliffs. ‘The White Nile, entering it on the runs from its N. extremity. It was actually in 1864 by Sir Samuel and Lady Baker, its existence was mentioned by natives to and Grant. Albert us M us, born of noble parents at in Suabia, about 1193. After studying at Padua he became a Dominican, and sent by that Order to Cologne and other cities Germany as theological lecturer. In 1245 he his doctor’s degree in Paris and taught there some time. He was made provincial of hig in 1254, and defended it against the attacks the University of Paris, controverting also the of Averroes. For three years (1260-63) he the bishopric of Ratisbon. His later years spent in preaching throughout Bavaria or ip almost his last task being the defence the orthodoxy of Thomas A quinas. In his character he was modest, pious, and up though his devotion to astronomy, astrology, chemistry caused him to be regarded as a ma- His voluminous works show a profound of Aristotle, whose system he ento reconcile with the doctrines of the He died in 1280.