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Andros. A small seaport, capital of the island of Andros, on its eastern coast. Andros. A group of islands in the Bahamas, named from the chief island of the group, about lat. 24° 45′ N., long. 78° W. Andros (an'dros), Sir Edmund. Born at London, Dec. 6, 1637: died at London, Feb. 27, 1714. An English colonial governor of New York 1674-81, and of New England (including New York) 1686-89. When the charters of the colonies were revoked he was conspicuous in an attempt to seize the charter of Connecticut (1687), which probably succeeded. (See Charter Oak .) He offended the colonists of New England by his tyranny and was seized April 18, 1689, in Boston and sent to England for trial; but the col onists' complaints were dismi ed. He was governor of Virginia (where he founded William and Mary College) 1692-98, and governor of the island of Jersey 1704-06. Andro scog gin (an-dros-kog'in). Ariver whose head streams rise in northern New Hampshire and northern Maine, and which drains Lake Umbagog and the Rangeley Lakes, and joins the Kennebec 5 miles north of Bath. Its total length is about 175 miles. And roti on (an-drō'ti-on). [Gr. Ἀνδροτίων .] An A then i an orator, a contemporary of Demosthenes and a pupil of I so crates. All of his work has perished with the exception of a fragment preserved by Aristotle. He was attacked by Demosthenes in one of his early orations. Andrugio (än-dröʻjō). In Marston's "Antonio and Mellida," the noble but turbulent Duke of Genoa. He utters the famous speech beginning, "Why, man, I never was a prince till now." Andru off (än'drös-sof), or Andru ovo. A village in the government of Smolensk, Ru ia, noted for the treaty of Andru off in 1667 between Ru ia and Poland, by which the latter ceded Kieff, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine. Andujar (än-dö-Här'). A town in the province of Jaen, Spain, situated on the Guadalquivir 44 miles northeast of Cordova. It was the scene of an engagement between the French and Spanish, July 18-20, 1808. The Convention of Bailen was signed here in 1808, and here in 1823, by decree, the French a umed super i ority over the Spanish authorities. Near it was the Celtiberian Illiturgis (?). Population (1887), 15,214. And var i (änd'vä-rē). [Old Norse.] In Old Norse mythology, a dwarf who lived in the water in the form of a pike. He was caught by Loki and forced to give up his treasure, ultimately called po e ors the Nibelung Hoard. On the last from its ring, the Andvaranaut, later the Ring of the Nibelungs, he laid the curse of destruction to all who should own it. Anegada (ä-ne-gä'dä). The northernmost of the Virgin Islands, British West Indies, in lat. 18° 45′ N., long. 64° 20′ W. Its length is 10 miles. Anel (a-nel'), Dominique. Born 1679: died about 1730. A French surgeon. He introduced improvements in the operations for aneurism and fistula lacrymal is. Anelida and Arcite (a-nel'i-dä and är'sīt). An unfinished poem by Chaucer. It was among those printed by Caxton, and is mentioned in both Lydgate's and Thynne's lists of Chaucer's works, in the latter as "Of Queen Anelida and False Arcite." There are pa ages in it Andronicus III. Palæologus. Born about from Boccaccio's "Teseide," and the "Thebaid" of Statius 1296: died June 15, 1341. Byzantine emperor 1328-41, grandson of Andronicus II. whose throne he usurped. He carried on war with the Ottoman Turks, who (1326-38) detached nearly the whole of Asia Minor from the empire. was also drawn upon. Chaucer tells us that he took it from the Latin, and says at the close of the prologue: "First follow I Stace and after him Corinne." To Corinne or Corineus, whoever he or she was, he owed the inspiration of this poem. Mi Barrett (Mrs. Brown The Century Cyclopedia of Names Anelida and Arcite ing) modernized the poem about the middle of the 19th century. Anelida was the Queen of Armenia. In the poem is included "The Complaint of Fair Anelida upon False Arcite," occasioned by the fact that the Theban knight (who is not the true Arcite of the "Knight's Tale") deserted her for another. The poem breaks off at the end of her complaint. Anerio (ä-nā'rē-ō), Felice. Born at Rome about 1560: died about 1630. An Italian composer of sacred music who succeeded Pal estrin a, on the latter's death, as composer for the papal chapel. Anerio, Giovanni Francesco. Born at Rome about 1567: died after 1613. An Italian composer, brother of Felice Anerio, maestro at the Later an 1600-13. He wrote sacred music chiefly. Anethan (än-ton'), Julius (Jules) Joseph, Baron d'. Born at Bru els, April 24, 1803: died there, Oct. 8, 1888. A Belgian Conservative politician, premier 1870-71. Anethou, Pic d'. See Néthou . Aneurin (an'i-rin). Flourished about 600 A. D. (?). A Welsh bard, son of a chief of the Otadini or Gododin (a sea-coast tribe dwelling south of the Firth of Forth), and author of the epic "Gododin" (which see), the chief source of the very scanty information about him. He has been thought to be identical with Gildas the historian, or to be the son of Gildas (who was sometimes called Euryn y Coed Aur ).